September 2010
Paul McCarthy at the New L&M gallery in September 2010!!!
The show will run from September 25 to November 6.
The show will run from September 25 to November 6.
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The Speed Art Museum presented “Changing Speed: A Community Forum on the New Museum” on Saturday, May 8 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
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With the Speed Art Museum of Louisville, Kentucky as the backdrop, he explains how “acupuncture architecture” is going to transform the museum from historic temple into a vibrant creative community center.
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On April 27, A+D Museum is hosting CELEBRATE 2010: a Grand Opening Exhibit and Inaugural Fundraising Event, to celebrate their newly established permanent home. The centerpiece of CELEBRATE 2010 is the design and construction of significant works for exhibition and silent auction by esteemed members of the local, national and international Art, Architecture, Design, Film, and Civic communities.
4 Salvaged Boxes were exhibited at the Univerity of Oregon in Portland in April 2010.
We are proud to announce our expanded patio and brand new Model Shop/Wood Shop! Stay tuned for exciting summer events.
Kulapat Yantrasast will be giving a lecture entitled “A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste” on February 26th at the Kansas State University’s Foerster Auditorium in Manhattan, Kansas. The lecture will begin at 5:00pm.
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Kulapat Yantrasast will be giving a lecture entitled, “Acupuncture Architecture” on February 25th at the Young Architects Forum of Kansas City. Social hour begins at 5:30pm. The lecture begins at 6:30pm at the Kansas City Art Center.
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The new book on wHY Architecture's Grand Rapids Art Museum is now in print and available at a store near you. (if you're lucky!)
Yo Hakomori and Kulapat Yantrasast will be teaching a Terminal Design Studio at the University of Oregon's School of Architecture and Allied Arts for the Winter and Spring quarters of 2010.
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For more detailed infrmation please check the Royal/T website
“Zodchestvo” is the annual Russian national architecture fair sponsored by the Union of Architects of Russia. Held in Moscow each year, “Zodchestvo” highlights current work and trends in architecture and design.
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Grand Rapids Art Museum is featured in Braun's U.S. Architecture book, available everywhere books are sold. For more information please see our Press page.
As part of the Tyler Museum's opening festivities, Aaron Loewenson lectured on the Grand Rapids Art Museum and Green Architecture and gave a tour of the exhibition.
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wHY was recently selected as a finalist for the next phase in the international architecture competition for the extension of Québec’s National Museum of Fine Arts.
Yo Hakomori will be speaking along with Kimberley Tomio, Director of the Tyler Museum of Art.
He will discuss the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Tyler Museum of Art and other projects wHY Architecture is working on.
The article was included in the September issue. Please see our press page for the full text.
The Folk Art Gallery is scheduled to open to the public on August 12, 2009.
August 28 at 7pm
Visit Royal/T's website for details
wHY Architecture at the Pulitzer Foundation's Art and Architecture Symposium. May 31-June 1, 2009.
Grand Rapids Art Museum is featured in Taschen's GREEN ARCHITECTURE NOW! book, available everywhere books are sold.
Kulapat Yantrasast speaks at the 40th anniversary symposium of Calder's La Grand Vitesse, the monumental outdoor stabile by Alexander Calder in front of the Grand Rapids City Hall.
The stabile is the first public art piece in the country that received the support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Yo Hakomori will represent wHY Architecture at Postopolis LA! Postopolis is a live, five-day event of near-continuous conversation
about architecture, art, urbanism, landscape, and design to be held in
Los Angeles from 31 March to 4 April 2009. Six bloggers, from five
different cities around the world, will host a series of discussions,
interviews, slideshows, panels, talks, and presentations, fusing the
informal energy and interdisciplinary approach of the architectural
blogosphere with the immediacy of face-to-face interaction.
Read More Here
The Speed Art Museum will host the opening of the 4 Salvaged Boxes exhibition on April 12. The exhibition will run from April 12 to June 14,2009. Museum Website
4 Salvaged Boxes is an exhibition about the approach and process of creative sustainable design. The exhibit is constructed in the spirit of sustainability, being made from recycled materials and is designed to produce minimal waste in its installation and transportation. Please visit the exhibition's website for more information.
wHY Architecture's Kulapat Yantrasast and Richard Stoner will join the first Speed Public Forum in association with the development of the Speed Art Museum renovation and expansion on April 17,2009 at 3 PM.
The discussion will emphasize the transformation of a citywide vision for art, architecture and landscape. wHY Architecture will participate with their vision of "invisible green" and the "acupuncture architecture" strategies they are planning for the Speed's expansion.
At the upcoming AIA 2009 National Convention in San Francisco, Kulapat Yantrasast is one of 10 emerging voices featured at the Saturday plenary session.
Reed Full Article Here
"I CAN'T FEEL MY FACE"
Curated by KAWS, from the collection of Susan Hancock.
Link to Video
Kulapat has been invited to join fellow panelists in two discussions at the AIA 2009 National Convention.
1. Design Innovation: Turning Challenges Into Opportunities on Friday, May 1, 2:00-3:30 PM
2. Closing General Session: Focus on Contemporary Architecture: Critical and New Opinions on Saturday, May 2, 2:30-4:00 PM
Click here for Elizabeth Kramer's interview with The Speed Art Museum's
Charles Venable and wHY Architecture's principal architect, Kulapat
Yantrasast:
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wHY is one of eight finalists selected for the expansion and renovation of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. The Speed sits on the campus of the University of Louisville and is looking to improve its profile with the students and within the community of Louisville. The selection is expected to be announced January, 2009.
The 4 Salvaged Boxes have arrived in Texas for an upcoming exhibition at the Tyler Museum of Art.
Royal/T's second show, "All of his is Melting Away", selected by Jay Sanders from the collection of Susan Hancock, opened on August 14th and will run throughout 2008.
The 4 Salvaged Boxes exhibition opened July, 22nd at the Sir JJ College of Architecture in Mumbai, India. The opening brought students and faculty alike from many schools all over Mumbai to view and interact with the exhibition. The opening was followed by a lecture by a wHY team member in order to start a dialogue with other architects abroad about green design and practice.
Kulapat was one of the speakers among artists, green policy and green business leaders at the National Summit on July 14, a collaboration of Wolf Trap, the Aspen Institute and American for the Arts. Please visit wolftrap.org
The Cultural Affairs Commission of the City of Los Angeles presented wHY Architecture with their highest honor for the design of the Art Bridge at the AIA Awards on June 4th, 2008. This award highlighted wHY's design on a pedestrian bridge in North Hollywood that integrated the public art work of muralist and founder of the Social Public Arts Resource Center (SPARC) Judith Baca.
4 Salvaged Boxes exhibition will travel to Asia, starting in Bangkok as one of the main exhibition at the Association of Siamese Architects' Annual Convention, April 30 to May 4, 2008, then relocating to the new Bangkok's Contemporary Art Center until the end of June. The exhibition is planned to travel to India, Singapore and Japan after Thailand.
February 2008 issue of Architectural Review features Grand Rapids Art Museum
IIT's School of Architecture kicks start the Winter / Spring Semester Lecture series with Kulapat's lecture on February 20, at IIT School of Architecture's Crown Hall.
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Cathleen McGuigan of Newsweek selects Grand Rapids Art Museum as one of the seven best international buildings in 2007.
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Blair Kamin highlights GRAM in his article Best of 2007: Architecture, in Chicago Tribune on December 23, 2007.
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Kulapat Yantrasat speaks at Grand Rapids Art Museum about wHY Architecture and the process of designing and building with integrated sustainable solutions
The alternative concept in art-culture venue, Royal / T, opens for preview in a bowstring truss building in Culver City, coinciding with the opening of the Murakami exhibition at LA MOCA. The space will fully open for the public early next year.
Visit http://royal-t.org/ for details and schedule.
Architect magazine highlights the Grand Rapids Art Museum as the cover story of the green issue, October 2007. The magazine features the architectural qualities of the building as well as the green design of the museum.
Groundbreaking begins at the Art institute of Chicago (AIC) for the Prints and Drawings Gallery. This is the first of a dynamic plan to renovate and update the iconic museum in preparation for the next generation of museum visitors and patrons.
Grand Rapids Art Museum will open to the public on October 5,2007. the museum is the first new art museum building in the country to receive the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Certification. The museum is located in the center of Grand Rapids, Michigan and adjacent to Maya Lin's urban sculpture - park "Ecliptic".
A new POLA Kirei spa opens in Santa Monica on Montana Avenue. The new store continues the design exploration originated in the flagship store in Beverly Hills by creating a calm sanctuary for the senses within a very small urban space. Multiple types of Japanese paper are used to create various layers of tactility, with metaphor for the skins.
Grand Rapids featured as one of the greenest cities in the country focusing on the sustainability of new construction particularly the Grand Rapids Art Museum
Chicago Tribune profiles wHY Architecture as one of the lead designers that will make significant transformation to the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago. wHY is currently working on multiple gallery re-design and re-installation projects at the Art Institute with timeframe from 2006 to 2010 and beyond.
Art in America, the country's leading art journal features GRAM in the front page column with focus on GRAM being the first "green" art museum in the country. GRAM will hold its first Christmas Tree Lighting on November 1, 2006 in the plaza in front of the new museum building. The museum's staff plan to move in to their new office by the end of 2006, and the new museum will open to the public in the fall of 2007.
POLA Kirei flagship store opens in Beverly Hills at the corner of Brighton and Bedford. wHY is the architect of this exclusive cosmetic / skin care spa from Japan. POLA prides itself for the most advanced technology in skincare together with the Japanese sense of care and hospitality. The store is designed to make visitors feel the experience of a Japanese garden with also the use of Japanese paper and textures on walls as metaphors for skins and tactility.