Academic Year
2025-2026
This studio reimagines botanical gardens, arboreta, and zoological landscapes beyond their colonial legacy of classification, extraction, and display. Using Bangkok — a city largely free from this inherited typology and critically underserved by public green space — as its context, students will investigate what these institutions could become if conceived not as imperial archives but as civic catalysts: scientifically rigorous, socially inclusive, and ecologically forward-looking.
Academic Year
2025-206
"Friends on a Field," reimagines the national stadium as an everyday urban catalyst rather than an isolated sporting monument. Using Supachalasai Stadium centrally located in Bangkok and directly served by public transit as its site, the studio investigates how stadiums can evolve into inclusive, multi-functional civic spaces that are open, adaptable, and meaningfully integrated into the life of the city.
Academic Year
2024-2025
"Ministry of Defense," investigates how military-controlled land in Thailand — vast, largely inaccessible, and politically entrenched — might be reimagined as civic infrastructure. As defense institutions globally are redefined beyond national security toward sustainable development and community resilience, students will critically examine how these contested spaces could be repurposed for public use, fostering social equity, environmental sustainability, and community engagement through architecturally and politically informed design.
Academic Year
2024-2025
This studio, "Ministry of Transport & Culture," explores the productive intersection of two seemingly distinct institutions — Thailand's infrastructure-heavy Ministry of Transport and its culturally focused Ministry of Culture. Students will investigate how the integration of mobility infrastructure and cultural programming can create a synergistic civic model: where transportation hubs become sites of cultural expression, and where efficient connectivity amplifies access to Thailand's rich cultural heritage, fostering tourism, local economies, and a more immersive, culturally embedded experience of the built environment.
Academic Year
2023-2024
This studio draws a parallel between Seoul and Bangkok — two cities whose founding identities were shaped by water and landscape, yet whose rapid urbanization has eroded those foundational relationships. Seoul was conceived through the principle of Pung-soo, harmonizing city and nature through mountains and wind corridors, while Bangkok evolved along the Chao Phraya and its network of canals, developing an intimate, adaptive culture of waterfront living. In both cases, modernization has compromised these ecological logics, producing fragmented skylines, inconsistent land use, and recurring urban flooding. The studio uses this comparative lens to ask how contemporary architecture and urbanism might recover, reinterpret, and reimagine the relationship between city and water.
Academic Year
2023-2024
This studio, "Ministry of Tourism & Sports," explores the unlikely but generative pairing of two sectors joined more by political circumstance than conceptual logic — tourism and sports sharing a single Thai ministry after a senate compromise under PM Shinawatra's cabinet. Yet the combination reveals genuine synergies: sporting events drive tourism, stadiums become destinations, and shared infrastructure serves both industries. Students will investigate how this institutional overlap can be leveraged architecturally, asking how the built environment might simultaneously serve the demands of global sporting culture and the evolving expectations of contemporary tourism within Thailand's rich cultural and landscape context.
chongsuwatk@gmail.com
Ken is a registered Landscape Architect in the State of New York and holds a MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he received the Norman T. Newton Prize in Design in 2015. His extensive professional experience includes working as a landscape designer and project leader at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in New York.
His earlier roles include project design positions at AECOM and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). His work and research have been published in different platforms, including GSD Platform, Landscape Architecture Frontiers, Landscape Architecture Magazine (LAM) . He has also contributed to exhibitions at institutions like Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Venice Biennale, and Association of Siamese Architects Expo
Cambridge, MA
Masters in Landscape Architecture
2015
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
Bsc. in Architecture and Design (INDA)
2011
State of New York
License#003184-01
2024
Bangkok, Thailand
2022 — Present
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Brooklyn, NY
2018
AECOM
New York, NY
2017
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
New York, NY
2015
West 8
New York, NY
2014
Shma
Bangkok, Thailand
2011
Instructor & Course Coordinator
Bangkok, Thailand
2022 — Present
Harvard GSD
Teaching Assistant
Cambridge, MA
2014 — 2015
Function LAB with Asensio-Mah
Research Assistant
Cambridge, MA
2014
STOSS Landscape Urbanism
Research Assistant
Cambridge, MA
2013
Bruner Loeb Forum / Bernard & Anne Spitzer SOA
Research Assistant
New York, NY
2013
An annual prize to be awarded to a graduating landscape architecture student whose work best exemplifies achievement in design expression as realized in any medium.
2015
Bangkok, Thailand
2026
USC × INDA International Workshop
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
2025
Meiji × INDA International Workshop
Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok, Thailand
2025
ASA Expo 2024 — Collective Language: Sensing Architecture
Bangkok, Thailand
2024
AECOM Urban SOS Competition Exhibition
Center for Architecture
New York, NY
2015
Platform 7 Exhibition — "Orographic Hills" Site Model
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
2014
Grounded Visionaries Exhibition — "Orographic Hills"
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, MA
2014
Meltdown (Solo Exhibition)
40 Kirkland Gallery
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, MA
2014
East Lansing 2030 / Collegeville Re-Envisioned
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
East Lansing, MI
2014
Platform 6 Exhibition — "Franklin Park" Model
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
2013
Coldscapes 2013 Competition —"Snow Haven"
2013
Association of Siamese Architects Expo 2012 — "Water City"
Bangkok, Thailand
2012
An annual prize to be awarded to a graduating landscape architecture student whose work best exemplifies achievement in design expression as realized in any medium.
2015
Board Member, Architecture Chulalongkorn University Alumni Association (ACUAA)
2024
Alumni Coordinator, INDA Chulalongkorn University
2024
Co-Curator, ASA Experimental Competition
2024
2021
BIG. Formgiving.
2020
Blank Space Fairy Tales: Vol. 3 — "Terrestrial Analogues"
2015
GSD Platform 8 — "Terrestrial Analogues" & "Zurich Bath Pools"
2015
LAF 21 Landscape Architecture Frontiers — "Terrestrial Analogues"
2015
GSD Platform 7 — "Orographic Hills"
2014
Representing Digital Landscapes
Nadia Amoroso (ed.)
2014
Adaptation_720
Function Lab
2014
Water Book, ASA — "Water City"
2012