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 in 2004. In the years since, he has acquired a reputation as one of the art world’s preeminent architects. Renowned for designing genre-expanding spaces that re-envision the role of the contemporary art gallery, the firm’s recent portfolio of major museum and cultural projects includes 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, the Ilmi Center in Riyadh, and the Contempo museum in Manila. Dib Bangkok, WHY Architecture’s new cultural landmark in the Thai capital, is a museum dedicated to international contemporary art. Housed in a 1980s renovated warehouse and crowned with a sawtooth roof, the museum responds to its dense urban context while reflecting Bangkok’s evolving role as an international art destination.