HAS design and research is an architecture studio established in Bangkok and Shanghai.
Hung And Songkittipakdee (HAS) explores Asia’s architectural language through a “design + research” parallel approach; it emphasizes the analogy of nature and man-made nature, looking for another kind of new natural architecture through the city’s own derivatives, named “The Improvised, MANufAcTURE and Chameleon Architecture”. HAS work encompassing cultural buildings, religious architecture, installation art, exhibition design and experimental projects; and HAS research includes the train and railway markets, the charming roadside vendors, the borderless illegal constructions under the elevated freeways, and the roundabouts of dead alleys. These interesting scenes typically exist in Asian cities, where temporary construction truly reveals how people can find a “new” nature in the reinforced concrete city.
HAS design and research developed an international reputation through winning competition entries, and their work stands out in terms of its synthesis of form, pattern, material and technology into singular, irreducible constructions. Their projects have earned widespread recognition on international platforms, garnering substantial admiration and featuring in publications such as The Best Architects in Bangkok 2023, Six Asian Design Firms You Need to Know 2022, and The Projects Reshaping Chinese Architecture Today 2021. HAS design and research’s innovative work has been celebrated with numerous awards and honors, including the Australia INDE. Award 2023, Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory 2022, Thailand Prestige Award 2021, Designer of the Year Award 2019, Design Star Award 2018, Distinguished Alumni Award 2016, WA Award 2014, art4d Design Award 2012, National Golden Award for Architecture 2011.
Jenchieh Hung is recognized as one of the leading architects in the new generation, renowned for his innovative architectural designs through “World Architects Directory” by Wallpaper* magazine in the United Kingdom. At present, Jenchieh Hung co-founded HAS design and research with Kulthida Songkittipakdee, an internationally recognized architectural design practice firm. In his practice, he wields architecture as a way to create emotional space and historical experiences between the past and future, and he has shown dexterity and sensitivity in his elegant use of material while bringing sincere attention to local socioeconomic and global ecological issues. Jenchieh Hung is also Founding President of Chinese-Thai Research Studio, Founder of Hung And Songkittipakdee Laboratory (HAS Lab), Guest Editor of Journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA), Member of The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage, Committee of The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage, and Editorial Committee of The Architectural Journal of the Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage. Alongside his design practice, he also serves as a Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and a Visiting Professor at Tongji University, China. Jenchieh Hung started his career, working at the Japanese firm Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA) in 2014, where he became design manager and project in-charge by 2018. During his tenure at KKAA, Jenchieh Hung was responsible for Yangcheng Lake Tourist Transportation Center in Suzhou and Shipyard 1862 in Shanghai. He received a Bachelor of Architecture and Urban Planning with 1st Honor Award from Chung Hua University, Master of Architecture with the Best Research Paper Award from National Cheng Kung University, and a full scholarship for the advanced master’s program at Czech Technical University in Prague.
Kulthida Songkittipakdee was the first Asian architect among thousands of applications around the world to be awarded the scholarship of Renzo Piano Foundation working at Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) in Paris. During her tenure at RPBW, she was involved in Jerome L. Greene Science Center, Columbia University and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Expansion. At present, Kulthida Songkittipakdee co-founded HAS design and research with Jenchieh Hung, an internationally recognized architectural design practice firm. In her practice, she believes architecture is on a quest to establish a language that is contemporary with the world and rooted in the place by climate and geography. Kulthida Songkittipakdee is also Guest Editor of Journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA), Member of The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage, Committee of The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage, and Editorial Committee of The Architectural Journal of the Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage. Alongside her design practice, she also serves as a Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and a Visiting Professor at Tongji University, China. She received a Bachelor of Architecture with Honor from Chulalongkorn University, and pursued studies abroad to obtain a Master of Urban Design from the L’Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-la-Villette, including the exchange program study at School of Architecture and Design, Aalborg University in Denmark.
Jenchieh Hung and Kulthida Songkittipakdee have been actively involved in academia as Visiting Professors and Design Critics in Architecture for Tongji University, Chulalongkorn University, and King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi. They were also invited to be Exhibition Chairman of The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage, Public Relations Director of The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage, and served as Chairperson of Committee of The Architectural Journal of the Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage to contribute to Thai contemporary architecture. They executed a series of exhibitions, publications, and forums and were commended by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thailand as Chinese-Thai Architecture Influencers.
Besides practice, Hung And Songkittipakdee (HAS) give architectural lectures to several universities, such as Arsom Silp Institute of the Arts, Assumption University, Chulalongkorn University, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi in Thailand; and East China Normal University, Shanghai University, Tongji University, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China. They were also invited to speak at public lectures, including the American Institute of Architects (AIA Shanghai), Bund Finance Center, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai Library, and Tencent Talks.
Visiting Professor & Design Critic in Architecture :
2020~Present_Chulalongkorn University/ 2020~Present_King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi/ 2021~Present_Kasetsart University/ 2019~Present_Tongji University/ 2018-2021_Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University/ 2018~2020_Donghua University/ 2020_Kunming University/ 2019_Shanghai Jiao Tong University/ 2017~2019_East China Normal University/ 2016_National Taipei University of Technology/ 2012~2013_Chinese Culture University.
Guest Editor & Editorial Committee :
2022~2023_Journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA)/ 2020~Present_The Architectural Journal of The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage/ 2019~Present_Interior Design + Construction magazine/ 2013~Present_International Journal of Interior Architecture + Spatial Design/ 2017~2023_Taiwan Architecture magazine/ 2019~2020_World Architecture Review magazine.
Curator & Thai Architecture Critic :
2021_Towards a Globalized Localism : Thai Architects/ 2021_Invisible Sensibility – Futurity of the CAUP Tongji University/ 2020_Southeast Asia : Building New Architecture World/ 2020_Making New History of Thai Architecture/ 2020_New Wave of Thai Architects/ 2020_A Current Thai Trend : from Materiality toward to Spirituality/ 2020_The language and Identity of Thai-ness Architecture/ 2020_Building an Attitude for Contemporary Thai Architecture/ 2020_An Architecture for the Future/ 2020_Thai Architects in their Regionalist Modernism/ 2020_Nature-Modernism in Contemporary Thai Architecture/ 2019_THAINESS – Thai Contemporary Architecture/ 2018_Emerging Tectonics – Thai Contemporary Architecture/ 2018_ The Rise of Globalized Thai Contemporary Architecture/ 2017_Back to Nature : Thai Architecture Now
Author :
2023_Infinity Ground, Corporation 4d Limited/ 2021_THE improvised, Li-Zenn Publishing/ 2016_Arch Life and Rhythm, Li-Zenn Publishing
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