Hoanh Tran is a Vietnamese American architect living and working in Ho Chi Minh City who studied at Columbia University in New York City (MS Historic Preservation), SCI-Arc in Los Angeles (MArch), and RMIT Melbourne (PhD Architecture). His practice includes design, research, teaching and writing.

Together with his partner Archie Pizzini, Hoanh founded HTAP Architects in 2004. Their design-focused projects range from small-scale boutiques and galleries to larger scale resorts.

He has been teaching since 2008 at various institutions, most recently at the RMIT Master of Architecture and Master of Urban Design programs. He has also been active with the Ho Chi Minh City Architecture University in various roles as thesis advisor and examiner.

Hoanh’s research focuses mainly on cities and includes a fascination with contemporary responses to the super-dense urban context. He views cities as accumulated strata where design can intervene in the process of deleting, adding and weaving together.

Hoanh gives lectures about design and cities and preservation and writes columns and articles for various journals and websites. His work, including his design projects and writings and interviews, has been published in Vietnam, Thailand, Korea, Turkey and Germany.