Champagne & Conversation with WHY Architecture

Kulapat Yantrasast—Founder, Managing Principal, and Creative Director of WHY Architecture—welcomed members and patrons  for an evening of champagne and conversation at WHY’s New York office. Over the years, WHY Architecture has cultivated a profound and influential relationship with museums across the globe. Renowned for its human-centered, interdisciplinary design philosophy, the firm has worked with institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan. Kulapat and his team have reimagined museum spaces as places that are not only visually striking but also deeply rooted in cultural and community engagement.

Of particular note, the program’s conversation focused on WHY Architecture’s recent commissions including the recently-renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the museum’s collection of art of the peoples of sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands, and North, Central, and South America are exhibited. In addition to this, Kulapat and his team provided behind-the-scenes details about two major historic projects at the Louvre Museum they are overseeing: the new Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art and the Roman antiquities trail, both of which are slated to reopen in the next few years.

Ruinart graciously provided champagne for this event.