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.