Kulapat is the founding principal and creative director of WHY. Born in Bangkok, he received his M. Arch. and Ph.D. degrees in Architecture from the University of Tokyo, and subsequently worked for eight years as a close associate to the Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect Tadao Ando, leading several important US and European museum and culture projects.

In recent years, Kulapat has acquired a reputation as one of the art world’s preeminent architects, designing genre-defying spaces which focus on the human impact of the arts; his interdisciplinary approach to architecture and design is inspired by his passion for food, ecology and human society, viewing each project as a mix of ingredients that yields its own unique recipe. He is a frequent public speaker at leading institutions, and is the first architect to receive the Silpathorn Award from the Government of Thailand. Since 2005, he has served on the Artists’ Committee of the Americans for the Arts, the nation’s oldest organization for support of the arts in society, and he is a board member of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.