Chat Chuenrudeemol : Architecture Lecture "Bangkok Bastards"

The lecture will explore how CHAT architects will show the relationship between our research of Bangkok Bastards, the city's existing street vernacular … and our built and theoretical designs, which we also refer to as Bangkok Bastards. The research components will include construction worker housing, illegal markets and settlements, and Bangkok's locally famous, but internationally unknown, "curtain sex motels". Projects that will tie into the research will be: the Ekamai Residence, SslaAreeya residence and yoga community, Nanda Heritage Hotel, TONY-a hostel converted from a curtain sex motel, and Loom House-a hybrid of the textile loom and the traditional Thai house on stilts. ABOUT CHAT CHUENRUDEEMOL Chatpong, or "Chat", Chuenrudeemol completed his Masters of Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in 2000 and received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley in 1994. Between his two degrees, he worked at Fernau and Hartman Architects in Berkeley for 2 years. His work experience also includes a position at Boston's Office dA after graduating from Harvard. In early 2001, Chat moved back to Bangkok in order to practice architecture in his birthplace. In 2004, Chat formed b/A/R, or bangkok Architectural Research, with partner Varoot Samalapa. The office combined design and research in solving problems of various scales-from interiors, to architecture, to urbanism. In 2012, Chat moved on to form his own studio called Chat Architects, which continues to explore the processes of research-based design at every level. While practicing, he has also taught design studios at various Bangkok universities, including Chulalongkorn University, Rangsit University, and KMUTT.