Crafting the Intangible
Name of Event/Lecture
Crafting the Intangible
Name of Speaker
Twitee and Amata from Department of ARCHITECTURE Co.
Location
SDE3, Level 1 Exhibition and Crit Space
You are cordially invited to attend the guest lecture by Twitee and Amata from Department of ARCHITECTURE Co.:
Date: 7 November 2024
Time: 6-8pm
Venue: SDE3, Level 1 Exhibition and Crit Space
BOA-SIA CPD Accreditation Points: 2
Please register your interest here: https://tinyurl.com/2vyu2ne9
The conversation explores daylight as an intangible architectural material, intertwining with various invisible elements such as shadows, air, temperature, human activities, and ideas; interplaying with tangible substances like concrete, brick, steel, wood, or glass. The tangible and the intangible, together, form architecture that is both seen and felt. By shaping the physical, architecture gives form to the intangible: space, atmosphere, usage, human interaction, activity, and perception.
Daylight carries inherent properties: the ability to reveal, soften, and sculpt the physical world. Its essence is inseparable from temperature, altering spatial experiences, as light is not merely perceived through vision but also through the body, its intensity merging with the form and substance of the architecture, creating a multi-sensory architectural experience.
About the speakers
Department of ARCHITECTURE Co. is a design studio based in Bangkok, Thailand; founded by Amata Luphaiboon and Twitee Vajrabhaya in 2004. It practices architecture, interior architecture, landscape, and other related design disciplines in a broad range of programmatic requirements and scales.
The studio’s design approach encompasses not only the tangible aspects of architecture, but also the conceptual framework upon which people interact. The practice is interested in finding new possibilities for architecture by exploring beyond the surface and designing an underlying foundation that forms the basis for the physical spaces.
Department of ARCHITECTURE Co. is named Best Firm in Asia 2021 by Architizer A+ and Best Architect of the Year 2020 by Interior Design Magazine. It has won several international awards including winners of Frame Awards (The Netherlands), Architizer A+ Awards (USA), Blueprint Award (UK), Best of Year Award (USA) from Interior Design Magazine, Architecture Masterprize (USA).