Sumet Jumsai

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Sumet Jumsai
Photo of Sumet - 6.jpg
Born1939 (age 81–82)[1]
Bangkok, Thailand[1]
NationalityThai
OccupationArchitect and painter

Sumet Jumsai na Ayudhya (Thai: สุเมธ ชุมสาย ณ อยุธยา) (born 1939 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai architect. He was named a National Artist of Thailand in 1998;[2] Honorary Fellow of The American Institute of Architects 2001 ; Member of the French Académie d'Architecture 2002 ; Fellow Commoner, St.John's College, Cambridge, 2003 and 2013, where he earlier obtained a doctorate degree in architecture ; and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) 2008. He is also a painter and author.[3]

Works[]

Architecture Location Date
British Council Building Bangkok 1970
Science Museum Bangkok 1976
Robot Building Robot Building, Bangkok.jpg Bangkok 1986
International School Bangkok Bangkok 1991
Nation Building Nation Building, Bangkok.jpg Bangkok 1991
Privy Council Chambers Tree Building - detail.jpg Bangkok 2004
S.31 - Bird Building S.31 01 Eng.jpg S.31 02 Eng.jpg Bangkok 2009
Siriraj Hospital - Srisavarindhira Building Siriraj01 Eng.jpg Siriraj02 Eng.jpg Bangkok 2011
New Art Museum (NAM), Langsuan Art outside the New Art Museum, Langsuan (2).jpg Art outside the New Art Museum, Langsuan (3).jpg Bangkok 2015
Painting Date
"Jeepney", Paris, 23.II.2000. Oil and oil pastel on canvas 80 x 100 cm Jeepney sumet2000.jpg 2000
"Boats", 10.III.2005. Oil on canvas 70 x 90 cm 2005
"Toy", 14.III.2010. Felt pen and oil on canvas 90 x 70 cm Toy 2010.jpg 2010
"Me 6", 16.III.2014. Oil on canvas 60.5 x 76 cm 2014
"Window, 25 Rue de Lille", 2014. Oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm 2014

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Kultermann, Udo. "Architecture in South-East Asia: Thailand" Archived 2012-05-03 at the Wayback Machine. MIMAR: Architecture in Development 20 (1986): 52–29. Singapore: Concept Media Ltd.
  2. ^ http://art.culture.go.th/index.php?case=libraryDetail&tbo_id=8&file_id=639&rhy_book_id=778
  3. ^ Eliot, Joshua; Bickersteth, Jane (2003). Thailand Handbook. ISBN 9781903471548.

Further reading[]

  • Brian Brace Taylor & John Hoskin. Sumet Jumsai. Asia Books (1996). ISBN 978-974-89258-6-8.
  • Biography from the Thai Ministry of Culture (more extensive version in Thai)
  • Contemporary Architects, edited by Muriel Emanuel, Macmillan, London, and St. James Press, Chicago 1980 ; 2nd ed. 1987 ; 3rd ed. 1995.
  • Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture, Architectural Press, London 1996.
  • The dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner, Macmillan, London 1996 ; Grove Dictionaries, New York 1996 ; in 34 vols ; Vol. 17, pp. 686–7.
  • World Architecture 1900-2000 : A Critical Mosaic, Volume 10 : Southeast Asia and the Oceania, Kenneth Frampton and others, China Architecture & Building Press, Beijing 2000 / Springer Wien, New York 2000.

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