WHY makes its debut appearance on the AD100 for 2020

As founder and creative director of the multidisciplinary firm WHY Architecture, Kulapat Yantrasast, a former project architect in the office of Japanese maestro Tadao Ando, has spearheaded the development of one of the most dynamic, innovative practices on the design scene today. With an extensive array of museum, gallery, collector, and artist projects, wHY has emerged as a juggernaut in the arena of contemporary culture. In 2020 alone, the firm will open a major expansion of its original design for the David Kordansky Gallery in L.A.; a redesign and addition to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco; a renovation of a wing of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; and a new music-and-arts center dedicated to the youth of East Palo Alto, California.