WHY Architecture

10/29/2026

“We looked to the geology. We looked to the ground.” - Mark Thomann, Director, WILDING X WHY

The ilmi Science and Discovery Center is taking shape on the edge of Riyadh, with its fall 2027 opening fast approaching, and its form is hard to miss. WILDING X WHY drew inspiration from the globe thistle, a native desert flower, but the team never meant for the shape to have just one meaning.

“Everyone’s going to have their own reading of what that form is. Sometimes it was a flower, sometimes it was the sun, sometimes the setting sun, sometimes the rising sun. And I think it’s all of those things.”

What do you see?

Mark Thomann
WILDING X WHY

10/27/2026

Before he designed museums, he experienced them.

Kulapat Yantrasast on museums, intention, and acupuncture architecture: small, precise moves that bring a whole place back to life.

This week at IMCC Munich 2026, Kulapat and Mark Thomann of Wilding × WHY present Dib Bangkok, where a 1980s warehouse became Thailand’s first international contemporary art museum.

Deutsches Museum, Munich
Tue, Oct 27 | 1:30 PM

Video Credit:
NOWNESS
Dib Bangkok: Shifting Perspectives
Exhibition Tour—Arts of the Ancient Americas, Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
Goodwood Art Foundation CIC

10/21/2026

10 months to the 2027 Bukhara Biennial!

Master Uzbek artisans and contemporary artists, in dialogue across the city’s ancient mosques and caravanserais. The 2027 Bukhara Biennial, with artistic direction by Kulapat Yantrasast, opens September 3.

Uzbekistan Art&Culture Development Foundation

10/16/2026

We’re thrilled to share that WHY has been appointed to transform Hathill House at in West Sussex.

“Goodwood’s landscape changes with every season and becomes the great surrounding theatre, where the boundary between inside and outside disappears completely.” – Kulapat Yantrasast

A place to look closely, gather, learn and belong. More to come.

Video Credit: Goodwood Art Foundation CIC

10/12/2026

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art of Narrative Art is officially open!

Inside MAD sculptural building in Exposition Park, WHY designed roughly 100,000 square feet of galleries. In a building with almost no straight lines, the galleries give the work room to breathe. Each space is shaped around the stories it holds, with curved paneling that echoes the architecture. In the Cinema exhibition, “Star Wars in Motion,” brings out the energy and movement of film.

From cave paintings to Banksy, the story of how we tell stories is now open. Stay tuned to hear from the team that designed it!

Photos by Sebastian Mayer

10/09/2026

Last week, Molteni&C hosted an evening at its Los Angeles Flagship Store with Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY and Séverine Tatangelo of Studio PCH, in conversation about how architecture can become a home for art. Two practices, one from museums and one from hospitality, on what happens when art leaves the gallery and moves into the places where we live, stay, and gather.

Thank you to Molteni&C for hosting a beautiful evening.

Photography by: Jester Jungco

10/03/2026

Three museums, one experience.

For the Harvard Art Museums, WHY reimagined the interior galleries to bring the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Sackler together as one. The design takes away architectural distractions so visitors can engage directly with the art. It spans 43,000 square feet of galleries and more than 130 custom cases developed with Goppion, built so the collection of about 250,000 objects can keep rotating.

In collaboration with Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Payette.

2011 - 2014

10/01/2026

Our Venice House was never meant to be just a house: It’s an ecosystem of living, working, and socializing, built as a test site for how we think about life and design. Shaped loosely like a cave carved by water, it opens fully to a pool, a library, an architecture studio, and a roof terrace facing the sea. As Kulapat puts it, “There are times when you want magic, you want the invisible hand. But you can’t hide anything with concrete.” The house was designed to age in full view, its scars and seams becoming part of the story.

CNA Luxury just spent time inside it, art, nature, and California light. Full story on our Linktree.

09/29/2026

From the Louvre to Uzbekistan to Bangkok, our work has taken us around the world. Every project taught us the same lesson: shared spaces create shared understanding.

On October 7, Laurent Bili, Ambassador of France to the United States, welcomes Kulapat Yantrasast to the Embassy of France in Washington, DC, for an evening on these stories.

Hosted by Ambassador Laurent Bili
La Maison Française | Wed, Oct 7 | 7 PM
Free and open to the public. Link in bio.

From the Louvre to Uzbekistan to Bangkok, our work has taken us around the world. Every project taught us the same lesson: shared spaces create shared understanding.

On October 7, Laurent Bili, Ambassador of France to the United States, welcomes Kulapat Yantrasast to the Embassy of France in Washington, DC, for an evening on these stories.

Hosted by Ambassador Laurent Bili
La Maison Française | Wed, Oct 7 | 7 PM
Free and open to the public. Link in bio.

The Louvre, Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art, the Galleries for Islamic Art, and Renovation of the Roman Antiquities Trail - Paris, France

Mastaba - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Lumbini Museum - Lumbini, Nepal

The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Rockefeller Wing: Arts of Africa,Oceania and the America’s - New York City, NY, USA

Goodwood Art Foundation - Chichester, United Kingdom

DIB Bangkok - Bangkok, Thailand

ilmi Science Discovery & Innovation Center - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Kontempo - Manila, Philippines

Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum - New Delhi, India

“When Apricots Blossom” Uzbekistan Pavilion Salone - Milan Design Week, Italy

09/23/2026