Vic Nguyen is currently the Design Director at Gillis Panichapan Architects (GPa). With over twenty years of practice ranging from development of civic, infrastructural, education, transportation-oriented, and mixed-use projects, including residential and office interiors. His expertise spans all phases of project development from conceptual design through construction administration. He has a wealth of experience collaborating with municipalities and local communities to attain consensus for project design and development.
Vic is a steward for maximizing passive building design strategies for indoor comfort, and the blending of boundaries of the outdoors with the interior. With deference to nature and reinforcing a sense of place, Vic believes that a building’s design reaches far beyond the physical boundaries of a defined site. He aspires to help enrich the places we all work, live, and visit.
He has a passion urban exploration, and enjoys studying active urban development in juxtaposition to the stratified history of a city’s-built environment.
Vic grew up in the Southland, has a Bachelor of Architecture form the University of Arizona College of Architecture, and practiced in Arizona, New York, and Southern California.