Architalk: Seeing the World through Architecture
[Architalk Series ] featuring Rachaporn Choochuey “Practising Tropicality”
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Speaker：Rachaporn CHOOCHUEY (Architect)
Guest Commentator：Yoshiharu TSUKAMOTO(Architect/Professor of Tokyo Science University)
Moderator：Yuko Hasegawa (Director, Arts and Design Division, I-House)
Sponsored by MRA Foundation
On March 23, 2026, a lecture by Rachaporn Choochuey—one of Thailand’s leading architects—was held at I-House. Her projects sensitively interpret the relationship between cities and the natural environment and embrace elements of local cultures and climates. Her work is highly regarded as being representative of a new generation of architecture in Southeast Asia. Her perspective on designing spaces that coexist with the environment while remaining closely attuned to people’s lives amidst accelerated global warming offers important insights into the future of architectural practice.
Speaker
Co-Founder of All(zone)
Rachaporn CHOOCHUEY
In 2009 Choochuey co-founded all(zone), a Bangkok-based studio inspired by the ever-shifting conditions of mega tropical metropolises and the contemporary vernacular intelligence embedded in everyday life. The studio explores an architecture of lightness—using fewer materials, lightweight construction, and reduced consumption—driven by experimentation and play. In 2016, all(zone) completed MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum in Chiang Mai, awarded Best New Museum in Asia Pacific (2017). Domus named the studio among the 100+ Best Architecture Firms (2019), and Monocle recognised a project in its Top 50 Best Design Awards (2021). all(zone) was also commissioned to design MPavilion 2022 in Melbourne. Their international presence includes exhibitions and collaborations at venues and events such as the Guggenheim Museum (New York), Chicago Architecture Biennial, Vitra Design Museum, Triennale di Milano, Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Thailand Biennale Chiang Rai, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (Riyadh), LUMA (Arles), Venice Biennale of Architecture, RAM Assembles, and Shanghai Biennale. She earned her B.Arch. from Chulalongkorn University, an M.S.AAD. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Architectural History from the University of Tokyo. A former faculty member at the Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University, she lectures and teaches internationally, and has held visiting appointments at Yale School of Architecture and Columbia GSAPP.
Moderator
Architect, Founder of Atelier Bow-Wow
Yoshiharu TSUKAMOTO
was Co-founder with Momoyo Kaijima of Tokyo-based architecture firm Atelier Bow-Wow in 1992. Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Science, director of General Incorporated Association Small Earth, and director of Window Research Institute. He works in diverse fields ranging from architecture, public spaces, furniture, field surveys, education, art exhibitions, curation, and writing. All his works are based on a theory called behaviorology that aims to reconstruct the commons by enhancing accessibility to local resources. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in architecture in 2022.
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