OFFICE PINGA is a multidisciplinary design agency focused on interior design and landscape architecture. Design ethos centers around lighting, materiality, playfulness, and nature-inspired spaces. We design in many forms, and with diverse budgets.
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Education
Diana Guo
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
MLA, M.Des
(2023)
Mingjia Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
M.Arch, MCP
(2025)
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
MLA, M.Des
(2023)
Mingjia Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
M.Arch, MCP
(2025)
Client Projects
2025
Art Loft Residence
20th C Loft
New York, NY
2024
Pacific Forest Residence
Townhome Renovation
Vancouver BC
2023
Urban Retreat Residence
New Construction Condo
New York, NY
Art Loft Residence
20th C Loft
New York, NY
2024
Pacific Forest Residence
Townhome Renovation
Vancouver BC
2023
Urban Retreat Residence
New Construction Condo
New York, NY
Awards
2023
Award of Excellence
American Society of Landscape Architects
GSD Domain Prize
Harvard University
2022
Penny White Fellowship Grant
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Fellowship
Andrew Mellon Urban Initiative Grant
2021
First Prize. “Brewing Flower Power: Reclaiming Feminist Space in Hyde Park.”
Cities for All Competition
Interviewed by CBC News
Project Feature: “Snow Bank: Upcycling Snow Waste for District Cooling.”
Honorable Mention. “Migrating Biodome, an Arctic Foods Kit for Food Sovereignty.”
Cities for All Competition
Top 10 Editor’s Choice Award, “Reclaiming Feminist Space.”
Winter Pavilion Switch Competitions
2020
Winner
Award of Applied Arts
Award of Excellence
American Society of Landscape Architects
GSD Domain Prize
Harvard University
2022
Penny White Fellowship Grant
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Fellowship
Andrew Mellon Urban Initiative Grant
2021
First Prize. “Brewing Flower Power: Reclaiming Feminist Space in Hyde Park.”
Cities for All Competition
Interviewed by CBC News
Project Feature: “Snow Bank: Upcycling Snow Waste for District Cooling.”
Honorable Mention. “Migrating Biodome, an Arctic Foods Kit for Food Sovereignty.”
Cities for All Competition
Top 10 Editor’s Choice Award, “Reclaiming Feminist Space.”
Winter Pavilion Switch Competitions
2020
Winner
Award of Applied Arts
Publications
2025
‘Still Water’,
Thresholds (MIT Press)
‘Megafaunas of the Past and Future’
LA+ Journal
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design
2023
‘Making Transpacific Kin’,
Harvard University MDes Thesis
2022
‘Queer Ecological Cinemas’,
Out of Frame Magazine
MIT Department of Architecture
‘Watery Abundance: Building Collective Action Through Foodways’,
Harvard Urban Review
Issue 04 “Overlooked”, pp. 63-74.
“Seeking Abundance”
Ground Up Journal
University of California Berkeley,
Issue 11: “Feedback”, Aug 2022.
2021
First Place, Project Feature
“Brewing Flower Power: Reclaiming Feminist Space in Hyde Park.”
Bustler Magazine, Archinect, Canadian Architect (Feb 2021).
“Moonshot.” Solo poem
Peripheries: A Journal of Word and Image, Issue 4.
On Shelf at Grolier Poetry Books, 2021.
ISSN 2767-9586.
“Floating Between Borders…Or, Perhaps, an Earth Without Borders?”
Harvard Urban Review
Issue 03: Sick Space, June 2021.
“Drawing Together: To the Disciplinary Divide.”
Open Letters #85,
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Bavoso, Mark, Clingen, Kira, Crespo, Teresa, Guo, Diana
“The Common Border.”
On Site Review, Issue 38: 2021
Lines, Borders, and Breaches.
“Floating Between Borders.”
On Site Review, Issue 38: 2021,
Lines, Borders, and Breaches.
Edited by Stephanie White
March 2021.
2020
Featured Project, “Soundscapes”
Platform 11
Harvard GSD
Winner, Featured Project, “Snowbank.”
Applied Arts Magazine
2018
“Breaking Apart From: Artist Interview and Feature.” ‘Still Water’,
Thresholds (MIT Press)
‘Megafaunas of the Past and Future’
LA+ Journal
University of Pennsylvania
Weitzman School of Design
2023
‘Making Transpacific Kin’,
Harvard University MDes Thesis
2022
‘Queer Ecological Cinemas’,
Out of Frame Magazine
MIT Department of Architecture
‘Watery Abundance: Building Collective Action Through Foodways’,
Harvard Urban Review
Issue 04 “Overlooked”, pp. 63-74.
“Seeking Abundance”
Ground Up Journal
University of California Berkeley,
Issue 11: “Feedback”, Aug 2022.
2021
First Place, Project Feature
“Brewing Flower Power: Reclaiming Feminist Space in Hyde Park.”
Bustler Magazine, Archinect, Canadian Architect (Feb 2021).
“Moonshot.” Solo poem
Peripheries: A Journal of Word and Image, Issue 4.
On Shelf at Grolier Poetry Books, 2021.
ISSN 2767-9586.
“Floating Between Borders…Or, Perhaps, an Earth Without Borders?”
Harvard Urban Review
Issue 03: Sick Space, June 2021.
“Drawing Together: To the Disciplinary Divide.”
Open Letters #85,
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Bavoso, Mark, Clingen, Kira, Crespo, Teresa, Guo, Diana
“The Common Border.”
On Site Review, Issue 38: 2021
Lines, Borders, and Breaches.
“Floating Between Borders.”
On Site Review, Issue 38: 2021,
Lines, Borders, and Breaches.
Edited by Stephanie White
March 2021.
2020
Featured Project, “Soundscapes”
Platform 11
Harvard GSD
Winner, Featured Project, “Snowbank.”
Applied Arts Magazine
2018
Creative Acts:
Inaugural Issue, 2018.
Vassar College Art History Journal, pp. 6-8