Kulapat Yantrasast is the founding partner and creative director of wHY, an interdisciplinary design studio with workshops of buildings, grounds, objects and ideas. The studio’s unique area of expertise includes the vision, design and transformation of civic and cultural institutions with focus on community and creative sustainable mission, museum gallery installation, and exhibition designs.
wHY has been working on the master plan of gallery re-installation and design for the Art Insitute of Chicago with multiple galleries – Galleries of European Decorative Arts, African and Arts of the Americas, Arms and Armor, Indian and Islamic, Japanese, American Folk Art, as well as Prints and Drawings, and ongoing design and construction.