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Kulapat Yantrasast
Kulapat Yantrasast (Thai: กุลภัทร ยันตรศาสตร, born in 1968 or 1969 in Bangkok) is an architect and designer. Originally from Thailand and now based in Los Angeles, he is a founding partner and Creative Director of WHY, a multidisciplinary design practice. In 2007 Yantrasast led the design for the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the first art museum building in the world to receive the LEED Gold certification for environmentally sustainable design.
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 Arts Foundation and the Noguchi Museum, and he is part of the Artists Council for the Hammer Museum at UCLA. Yantrasast has served on the Artists’ Committee of the Americans for the Arts since 2005.
From 1996 to 2003, Yantrasast worked as an associate of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, responsible for international projects including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas (2002), Armani / Teatro in Milan, Italy (2001), Fondation Francois Pinault pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, France (2001–2003), the Calder Museum project in Philadelphia, PA, (1999–2002) and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA (2001–2014) as well as international design competitions.
Yantrasast co-founded WHY Architecture in 2003 with Yo-Ichiro Hakomori. The studio's first major commission was the completion of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (2007) in Michigan. WHY has since worked on a number of large museum projects, including the expansion of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY, and gallery design and planning for Harvard Art Museums and the Art Institute of Chicago.
The practice is currently engaged in major gallery renovation projects including the Rockefeller Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. Other leading cultural projects include a new contemporary art museum in Makati, Philippines, and the Tchaikovsky Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm, Russia.
Yantrasast has also designed a number of private residences, including large scale homes in Malibu, Venice Beach, and Beverly Hills, CA, and villas in Chiang Mai and Phuket in Thailand.
The practice 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. In 2017 and 2018 respectively, the WHY Landscape Workshop won two international competitions to design large-scale urban parks: West Princes Street Gardens and the Ross Pavilion in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Rees Ridge Waterfront Park in Toronto, Canada. Yantrasast is also involved in community projects in California, including a mixed-use affordable housing compound in Watts, Los Angeles and EPACENTER Arts, a youth arts and music center in East Palo Alto.
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Kulapat Yantrasast
Kulapat Yantrasast (Thai: กุลภัทร ยันตรศาสตร, born in 1968 or 1969 in Bangkok) is an architect and designer. Originally from Thailand and now based in Los Angeles, he is a founding partner and Creative Director of WHY, a multidisciplinary design practice. In 2007 Yantrasast led the design for the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the first art museum building in the world to receive the LEED Gold certification for environmentally sustainable design.
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 Arts Foundation and the Noguchi Museum, and he is part of the Artists Council for the Hammer Museum at UCLA. Yantrasast has served on the Artists’ Committee of the Americans for the Arts since 2005.
From 1996 to 2003, Yantrasast worked as an associate of Japanese architect Tadao Ando, responsible for international projects including the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Fort Worth, Texas (2002), Armani / Teatro in Milan, Italy (2001), Fondation Francois Pinault pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris, France (2001–2003), the Calder Museum project in Philadelphia, PA, (1999–2002) and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA (2001–2014) as well as international design competitions.
Yantrasast co-founded WHY Architecture in 2003 with Yo-Ichiro Hakomori. The studio's first major commission was the completion of the Grand Rapids Art Museum (2007) in Michigan. WHY has since worked on a number of large museum projects, including the expansion of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY, and gallery design and planning for Harvard Art Museums and the Art Institute of Chicago.
The practice is currently engaged in major gallery renovation projects including the Rockefeller Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. Other leading cultural projects include a new contemporary art museum in Makati, Philippines, and the Tchaikovsky Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm, Russia.
Yantrasast has also designed a number of private residences, including large scale homes in Malibu, Venice Beach, and Beverly Hills, CA, and villas in Chiang Mai and Phuket in Thailand.
The practice 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. In 2017 and 2018 respectively, the WHY Landscape Workshop won two international competitions to design large-scale urban parks: West Princes Street Gardens and the Ross Pavilion in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Rees Ridge Waterfront Park in Toronto, Canada. Yantrasast is also involved in community projects in California, including a mixed-use affordable housing compound in Watts, Los Angeles and EPACENTER Arts, a youth arts and music center in East Palo Alto.