DATE 03 MAY 2025 | TIME 14:00-15:00
Session Name : "Design the Life Not the Form"
Speaker : Kulapat Yantrasast
Position : Founder and Creative Director, WHY Architecture
Design the Life Not the Form
When did architecture become window dressing ?
How could we get back to sheltering life with meaningful connections ?
Architecture is the art form of shelter and generosity . For millennia , architecture have hosted
civilizations, communities and adventurous spirits. Buildings have hosted and celebrated artistic
collaboration of highest forms for all eras of our civilizations.
What went dimmed ?
Architecture, in the theoretical post post-modern years, tried to be self-referencing, speak its own language and refuse to engage and host other art forms, just focus on loving itself . Only to realize how irrelevant architecture became when it ignored its essential purpose, refused to nurture life and to host other art forms.
It is time we get confident and proud of what architecture is. What architecture could do uniquely
more than other art forms.
Architecture shelters lives
Architecture hosts collaborations
Architecture lets human flourish
With that power , are we settling to just window dressing ? Just to make forms ?
Design the Life, not just the form.
