Kulapat Yantrasast
Kulapat Yantrasast | |
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Born | Bangkok, Thailand |
Nationality | Thai |
Alma mater |
Chulalongkorn University University of Tokyo |
Occupation | Architect |
Awards | Silpathorn Award |
Practice | wHY Architecture |
Buildings | Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
Kulapat Yantrasast (born in Bangkok) is a Thai architect who is the founding partner and creative director of wHY, an interdisciplinary design studio with workshops of buildings, grounds, objects and ideas. In 2007 Yantrasast's studio designed the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the first new art museum building in the world to receive the LEED certification (Gold).[1] Yantrasast lectures on creativity, food, and asarchitecture.[2]
Background
Yantrasast was born in Bangkok, Thailand, where he graduated with honors from Chulalongkorn University. He received his M.Arch. and Ph.D. degrees in Architecture from the University of Tokyo, under a Japanese Government scholarship.
He is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Pulitzer Art Foundation.[3] Since 2005 Yantrasast has served on the Artists’ Committee of the Americans for the Arts, the nation’s oldest organization for support of the arts in the society.[4]
Professional career
From 1996 to 2003, Yantrasast worked as a close associate to famous Japanese architect Tadao Ando,[5] responsible on international projects including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas (2002),[6] Armani / Teatro in Milan, Italy (2001),[7] Fondation Francois Pinault pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, France (2001–2003),[8] the Calder Museum project in Philadelphia, PA (1999–2002)[9] and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA (2001-ongoing)[10] as well as international design competitions.
Yantrasast founded wHY Architecture in 2003, later shortened to wHY. The studio's first major commission was completion of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (2007).[11] Residences include many large-scale homes in Malibu, California, urban dwellings in Venice and Beverly Hills, and villas in Thailand's Chiangmai and Phuket cities as well as Osaka, Japan.
wHY Architecture has been working with a consortium of civic leaders, private developers, and urban planners to revitalize the historic Portland Warehouse District adjacent to Louisville, Kentucky.[12] In Texas, wHY is working on the Tyler Museum of Art a new cultural nucleus of the East Texas region. Recent commissions include The Feasibility and Masterplan for the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, and reinventing the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, a major Los Angeles historic structure, as a private museum for Maurice and Paul Marciano.[13]
Awards and recognition
In 2009, Yantrasast received the Silpathorn Award for Design from Thailand's Ministry of Culture for outstanding achievement and notable contributions to Thai contemporary arts and culture. He was the first architect to receive the prestigious award.[14]
Yantrasast was named of the 100 Most Powerful People in the Art World by Art+Auction magazine in their 2012 Power 100 issue.[15]
Notable works
- Galleries at the Art Institute of Chicago [16] [17]
- Grand Rapids Art Museum (2007)
- L&M Arts Gallery[18] (2010)
- David Kordansky Gallery[19] (2014)
- Studio Art Hall, Pomona College[20] (2014)
- Galleries at the Harvard Art Museum[21] (2015)
- Walkway at the Worcester Art Museum[22] (2015)
- Speed Art Museum (2016)
- Interpretative Green Bridge at the Los Angeles River[23]
Gallery
References
- ↑ See Reuters, March 20, 2008, New York Times, March 3, 2007
- ↑ National Building Museum
- ↑ "Board of Trustees | Pulitzer Arts Foundation". pulitzerarts.org. Retrieved 2016-01-20.
- ↑ Arts USA: Committee
- ↑ New York Times, May 30, 2010
- ↑ The Modern
- ↑ YouTube
- ↑ The Guardian, Art and Design, October 11, 2004
- ↑ Philadelphia Museum, 2001
- ↑ Art Daily
- ↑ Greensource Construction: Grand Rapids Art Museum
- ↑ http://leoweekly.com/news/portland-renaissance
- ↑ http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-property-report-20130725,0,845153.story
- ↑ Silpathorn Award to Yantrasast
- ↑ http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/752474/artauctions-power-100-francois-pinault-dasha-zhukova-larry-gagosian-and-more
- ↑ "Goldman Study Center". Art Institute of Chicago. Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ↑ Chicago Tribune, July 5, 2007. Art Institute of Chicago
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2010: L&M Arts Gallery
- ↑ "Kulapat Yantrasast's brilliant design for the new David Kordansky Gallery". Architectural Digest. August 31, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ↑ "Our Dramatic Studio Art Hall Provides Insight Into Creative Spaces". Pomona.edu. Pomona College. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ↑ Webster, Peter (February 19, 2015). "Harvard Art Museums: A design for viewing". Christie's. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ↑ "Art Museum to Unveil New Accessible Walkway". Telegram & Gazette. November 12, 2015. p. 6.
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