The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series | Chat Chuenrudeemol

Chatpong ‘Chat’ Chuenrudeemol, director of Thailand’s Chat Architects, is deeply impacted by the beauty and ugliness of Bangkok. Chat’s projects aim to capture the true essence of his birth city and are rooted in his research of “Bangkok Bastards”- the local street vernacular, overlooked for their informality but brimming with architectural invention and cultural authenticity. Focused on teaching his strategies on documenting and utilizing “Bastard Architecture” in Southeast Asia, he currently leads a community design-build studio at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University’s INDA and serves as adjuct professor at Malaysia’s Taylor’s University, leading the “Kuala Lumpur Bastards” workshop. In 2021, Chat Architects and Thailand Minister of Art and Culture launched ‘www.bangkokbastard.com’, an on-line, opensource website where guests can upload their own bastard documentation to add to the collective bastard knowledge.

CHAT’s projects have won numerous international awards, including most recently, the 2023 WAF “International Building Beauty” Award for the Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion and Architectural Review’s 2022 AR Houses Awards, Commended for SalaAreeya. In 2020, Chat received Thailand’s “Silpathorn Award”, the country’s highest award for contemporary artists, presented by the Ministry of Culture of Thailand.
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Belinda Lin.

The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series is endowed by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.

This event is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.

Host or Publisher Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art