Kulapat Yantrasast is the founder, managing principal and creative director of WHY Architecture.

Born in Bangkok, he graduated in Architecture from the University of Tokyo before working as a close associate to the Pritzker Prize winning architect Tadao Ando.

Since founding WHY Architecture in 2004 in Los Angeles, California, Yantrasast has acquired a reputation as one of the art world’s preeminent architects, designing genre-defying spaces which focus on the human impact of the arts.

Beyond heading up WHY Architecture, Yantrasast is a board member of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Noguchi Museum in New York, as well as serving as principal architect for New Delhi's Yuge Yugeen Bharat national museum.