gogo xiaoguo zhu gogoxchoo@gmail.com | 518.606.0644 instagram @gogochoo https://issuu.com/gogozhu
education virginia tech, bachelor of architecture summa cum laude | in honor | 2014-2019
minor in landscape architecture minor in music
practice full-time intern | nArchitects, New Yor k City | septemter 2019 - present student intern | Booth Hansen, Chicago | spring 2018 - summer 2018 summer intern | noroof architects, New Yor k City | summer 2017 pop-up installation | digital student collaboration | design-built | spring 2017
recognition finalist,rise international competition | top 6 / 56 entries | 2018-2019 winner,3rd-year architecture annual competition| 80+ entries | 2016 winner,mitchell carr symposium competition| design-built, team collaboration | 2016 finalist,2nd-year architecture annual competition| top 6 / 100+ entries | 2016 finalist,1st-year architecture annual competition| top 6 / 100+ entries | 2015 dean’s list| 2014 - 2019
experience architecture travel program | 20 countries in Europe | summer-fall 2017 stage design research | Luminoire, Diavolo co. | architecture in motion | spring 2017 community strategies seminar | urban planning | place-making | fall 2016 - spring 2017 sustainability institute | Town of Blacksburg | 2-week conference | summer 2016 orientation assistant | School of Architecture, Virginia Tech | summer 2016 xyz gallery | Blacksburg, Virginia | student-r un public ar t galler y | fall 2014
skill digital autocad, rhino, revit, vectorworks, lumion, sketchup photoshop, indesign, illustrator, lightroom, premiere microsoft office
analog model-making, lasercamm, 3d printing, woodworking, metal cutting/welding concrete/plaster casting, hand-drafting, sketching dslr photography, film photography, graphic design
language english, mandarin chinese
reference | founding par tner s at nArchitects | mimi.hoang@narchitects.com | chair of architecture program at Virginia Tech | schnoedt@vt.edu hilary bryon | thesis advisor, professor at Virginia Tech | hbr yon@vt.edu aki ishida | professor at Virginia Tech | aishida@vt.edu david mann | principal/director at Booth Hansen | dmann@boothhansen.com
eric bunge; mimi hoang heinrich schnoedt
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I love making things. I love making things happen. I want to make beautiful things—for the love of the wor ld, and for the meaning of the self.