From arches and angles to the illusion of movement, architecture has the power to influence the way people interact with and move throughout a space.
Architect Kulapat Yantrasast, founder of global design firm, WHY, knows this better than anyone, having masterfully renovated everything from the Rockefeller Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York to the Ross Pavilion in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Although the world-renowned architecture firm was named one of the top 100 design firms by Architecture Digest in 2020 and often works on as many as 50 projects across the globe at a time, the company is not resting on its laurels. Instead, WHY is continuing to innovate and grow as it considers the role architecture can play to help empower people in the aftermath of the pandemic, with a special focus on addressing social justice and equity issues.
Building on his philosophy of accessibility and resilience, the global design firm is now focused on new ways to help performing arts spaces reopen safely so design can continue to inspire humanity, one building at a time.
Architecture has power to engage people. By using design as a way of thinking, you understand and develop some sort of empathy to other things around you.
