Kevin Hai Pham

Kevin is a designer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP. In 2025, Kevin launched the design and research practice Office of Outside Interests. In addition to his professional and academic work, he also freelances for various projects and engagements around New York City.

Previously he has worked as a designer with firms across the United States and Europe, including Bjarke Ingels Group and Snøhetta, where he was exposed to projects of myriad scales—from small-scale installations, residences, and interiors; to cultural institutions, museums, and public libraries; and to larger, urban master plans. He wrote his thesis on the spatial infrastructures of youth nightlife networks in Amsterdam, conducted independent research on the ad hoc architectures of post-industrial Berlin’s renegade rave scene, and assisted artists in Paris through the Cité International des Arts à Paris. Through NHDM, he also participated in the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2023 and the Seoul Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism in 2019. He has lectured, been an invited critic, or taught in varying capacities at Columbia University, New York University, University of Houston, Boston Architectural College, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Austin’s South by Southwest.

Kevin received his Master of Architecture with honors from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Science in Interior Architecture and Bachelor of Arts in French Literature from the University of Houston, summa cum laude. Following the completion of his graduate studies, Kevin was awarded the Lowenfish Memorial Prize, the Building Technologies Honor Award, and the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize for postgraduate study.