About wHY Architecture Product Design company in Culver City, United States
The Ideas Workshop is wHYs think tank of new beginnings leading investigations that generate fresh design programs branding amp; identity strategies and solutions at a variety of scales.
The Ideas Workshop digs deep articulating what shapes our clients endeavors while identifying new opportunities for success.
The Buildings Workshop makes fresh creative and intelligent buildings that are game-changers for clients and their communities. Through a combination of craft and craftiness wHY delivers buildings with value that far exceeds cost.
wHY eschews iconic form-making in favor of solving functional problems and representing multiple identities without compromising the whole.
Equal parts making and learning wHYs Objects Workshop is our test kitchen for ideas. From material investigations and whimsical art objects to furniture and casework the products of the Objects Workshop are just as likely to hatch from an intriguing conversation as from an experiment gone wrong.
The scale of the work allows us to cycle rapidly through more experiments with a wider range of materials and methods than larger projects would otherwise afford.
The Grounds Workshop is an imaginative landscape and urban design studio that collaborates with architects urban planners and artists worldwide to cultivate and program future ecologies and open space.
wHYs goal is to connect people and lifestyles to a vision of healthy and resilient cities and environments. Through the seamless integration of building landscape and urban environments the workshop enables art function nature and structure to beautifully coexist.
The Museums Workshop is a synthesis of the knowledge gleaned from wHYs cultural and institutional projects over the last 15 years.
Our design philosophy explores new ways to enhance the intrinsic identity of our clients curatorial mission. Paired with our founding aspiration of helping museums connect to new and diverse audiences in the 21st century the workshop is a one-of-a-kind laboratory for vigorous and exceptional thinking regarding museum projects.
Founding Partner and Creative Director
Born in Bangkok Thailand 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) under a Japanese Government scholarship. Upon graduating Kulapat worked as Tadao Andos close associate for eight years in Japan. In 2012 he was named one of the art worlds 100 Most Powerful People; in 2009 Kulapat was the first architect to receive the Silpathorn Award for Design from Thailands Ministry of Culture. He is a frequent public speaker at leading institutions and has served on the Artists Committee of the Americans for the Arts (the United States oldest organization for support of the arts in the society) since 2005. In 2015 he was appointed a board member of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and he is an active member of the Design Council for Collective Design.
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wHY is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to serving the arts communities culture and the environment.
As creators of spaces for creative and engaged living wHY is always looking to hire people with diverse backgrounds a passion for design and technical experience.
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