“What makes you happy?” That’s the first question the architect Kulapat Yantrasast will ask you when you order a house from him. It’s a way of creating surprise, of suggesting to the customer that anything is possible and will be tailor-made for them – it will be the house of your dreams. Born in Bangkok, Thailand, 55 years ago, and trained in Japan at Tokyo University and then with the great master Tadao Ando, Yantrasast arrived in Los Angeles to open his own agency, which he called WHY.