Arts Talk welcomes visionary architect Kulapat Yantrasast, founder and creative director of multidisciplinary design firm WHY, to share his creative practice and discuss the importance of architecture and design as tools for fostering curiosity and building community.
What does it mean to be an “architect of human fulfillment?” In episode two, we are joined by visionary architect and polymath Kulapat Yantrasast (@thekulaparty), founder and creative director of WHY, the world renowned multidisciplinary design firm, whose extensive resume includes award-winning projects for The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), the Musée du Louvre (Paris), ILMI Science Discovery & Innovation Center (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), The Tchaikovsky Academic Opera & Ballet Theater (Perm, Russia), Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (Los Angeles), The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (San Francisco), Grand Rapids Art Museum (Grand Rapids, MI), The Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY) and The Tyler Museum of Art (Tyler, TX), among many others. In this episode, Yantrasast emphasizes the importance of approaching design as an open and intimate relationship with space, place and community. He shares how curiosity and collaboration form the ethos of his creative practice and guide his stewardship of the architects, landscape architects, designers, and strategists that comprise WHY’s interdisciplinary teams across offices in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Tokyo.
Music Credits
"Creativity," Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock
Hiroshi Yoshimura
The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band