PRESS RELEASE12 MARCH 2021 |
DAYLIGHT TALKS WITH BOONSERM PREMTHADA |
On 18 March at 16:00 CET, you are cordially invited to attend the second in the ‘Daylight Talks’ series, featuring Thai architect and artist Boonserm Premthada and transmitted live from Bangkok Project Studio. Organised by the VELUX Group in collaboration with individual schools of architecture and endorsed by the UIA and the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), the Talks explore the significance of natural light in architecture and will present prominent architects and educators working consciously and qualitatively with daylight in their projects and educational programmes.In this second Talk, hosted by the École Spéciale d’Architecture (ESA)in Paris and architect, theorist, writer and professor Jana Revedin, Premthada will discuss the role of daylight in his work. |
Boonserm Premthada is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University and Founder ofBangkok Project Studio. Boonserm’s work has won many international awards including, the ar+d Award for Emerging Architecture in 2011. He has also been shortlisted for the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture 2013, the Grand Prize International Brick Architecture 2014, The Plan Awards 2017, the Design for Asia Awards 2017, and the Royal Academy Dorfman Awards 2019. He is the laureate of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2018.Premthada has lectured and exhibited at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Venice Biennale 2018, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the Indian Institute of Architects, University of Tokyo, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore and several other international universities.Find out more on Premthada here. |