Living Room Chat with Kulapat Yantrasast

Event Description

Join us on Friday May 25, 2018, from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM, continuing our Living Room Chat series theme on architecture with Kulapat Yantrasast, founding director and principal of wHY, an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to serving the arts, communities, culture and the environment.  Moderating the discussion will be Drew Hammond, former senior international correspondent of the The Art Economist, and currently an independent curator and writer.

Kulapat is the founding principal and creative director of wHY. Born in Bangkok, where he graduated with honors from Chulalongkorn University (1990), Kulapat received both his M.Arch. and Ph.D. degrees in Architecture from the University of Tokyo (1993/1996). Upon graduating, Kulapat worked as Tadao Ando’s close associate for more than seven years in Japan, leading several important US and European museum and culture projects.

Regarded as a new generation architect, Kulapat‘s interdisciplinary approach to architecture and design is largely shaped and inspired by his passion for food and society, viewing each project as a mix of ingredients that yields its own unique recipe. His approach and philosophy provides a purity of structure and clarity of thought with an openness and desire for creating dynamic environments, earning him numerous honors and awards over the years.