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Get Lectured: The Ohio State University, Spring '23

2023-03-20T16:50:00-04:00

Today, Archinect is continuing our Get Lectured series with a look at the events taking place this semester on the campus of the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University in Columbus.

The spring has already seen appearances from Charles Renfro, Craig Dykers, Elissa Iturbe, Deanna van Buren, and Todd Gannon as part of the Baumer Lecture series, which will continue with UNC Chapel Hill professor Nichola Lowe on March 22 followed by a visit from Georgia Tech’s Catherine Ross on March 29.

The next month will see the continuation of the Baumer series with a lecture from Seattle-based GGN Associate Azzurra Cox on April 5. Her visit precedes the series’ conclusion with a presentation from the school’s 2022-23 LeFevre Fellow Georgina Baronian on April 21.

Lecture poster courtesy of the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture.

Other events include the annual DeeDee and Herb Glimcher Lecture featuring WHY Architecture director Kulapat Yantrasast on March 22 from the Wexne...

wHY Architecture to design the Met's ambitious $70 million Rockefeller Wing renovation

2018-11-21T14:04:00-05:00

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is moving forward with ambitious plans for a massive renovation and redesign of the New York museum's Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. Devoted to Africa, Oceania and the Americas, the forty-thousand-square-foot wing will be designed by the architect Kulapat Yantrasast and his firm wHY, and is expected to complete in 2023.

Over the years, Yantrasast's practice has built up a reputation for their modern and open art spaces. Their portfolio of projects includes the Speed Art Museum in Kentucky, Michigan's Grand Rapids Art Museum, and the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. His previous works at the Harvard Art Museums and at the Art Institute of Chicago, in particular, attracted the attention of the team at the Met. Currently, Mr. Yantrasast is working on the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, as well as a youth arts center in neighboring Oakland.

Americas Gallery looking South. Image by wHY.

"I love art and I love discoveries," says Yantrasast. "For that...

Kulapat Yantrasast's quest for good spaces and inclusive minimalism

2018-05-24T15:21:00-04:00

Mr. Yantrasast has established his firm, wHY, as one of the go-to designers for art spaces, from galleries to museums and everything in between, as well as other civic and cultural projects. Mr. Yantrasast’s specialty has been what he calls “acupuncture architecture”: ingenious renovations of existing spaces and context-sensitive additions.

The New York Times features Thailand-born American architect, wHY founder, and former Tadao Ando designer, Kulapat Yantrasast, who is extremely busy right now completing beautifully minimalist temples to modernism around the world.

New Kulapat Yantrasast-designed Gagosian Gallery to open in San Francisco

2016-03-11T20:56:00-05:00

Larry Gagosian’s new 4500 square foot space, designed by Kulapat Yantrasast, is set to open up on May 18, 2016, on 657 Howard Street, right across the street from SFMoMA. The inaugural exhibition there will focus on the relationships between modern and contemporary sculpture and drawing, featuring work from Picasso and Joe Bradley, among others.

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