Kulapat Yantrasast is the founder, managing principal, and creative director of WHY Architecture. Born in Bangkok, Yantrasast opened the WHY Architecture workshop in Los Angeles, California, in 2004. In the years since, he has acquired a reputation as one of the art world’s preeminent architects, designing genre-expanding spaces which focus on the human impact of the arts. Recent major museum and cultural projects include the renovation of the Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art at the Louvre, the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dib Contemporary Art Center in Bangkok, the ilmi Center in Riyadh, and the Contempo museum in Manila. Currently, Yantrasast serves as principal architect for New Delhi’s Yuge Yugeen Bharat national museum.