I am currently a fifth year student at the Fay Jones School of Architecture in Fayetteville, Arkansas, working on my last semester before graduation. My last name is simply pronounced like the word “Win”. My parents were both born in Vietnam, but I am originally from a small town in northwest Arkansas called Van Buren, where my family moved after the United States withdrew from the Vietnam War. I am the youngest of four siblings, with one sister and two brothers. My sister is a high school art teacher, my brother a graphic designer, and my other brother has some training in engineering.
My interest in architecture stems from the multi-faceted nature of the profession. Nearly everything conceived of can be related to architecture in some way. My strengths coming out of high school were in art and mathematics and rather than exploring one over the other, I wanted to learn from a profession that used elements of both together.
One of the most important things that studying architecture has indirectly taught me is the strength of rigorous work. Meticulously developing anything from a word document to a design proposal can only aid in its clarity and the message it conveys. Saying that, I aim to apply that principle to everything I do.
