Boonserm Premthada

Boonserm Premthada is a Thai architect and founder of Bangkok Project Studio, internationally recognised for his work that explores architecture as a social, ecological and ethical practice.

His approach emphasises local wisdom, vernacular techniques and the intelligence embedded in materials, labour and communities, particularly in rural and marginalised contexts. Rather than treating architecture as an object, Premthada views it as a process of coexistence between humans, non-human beings, landscape and time. His projects often employ unconventional materials such as elephant dung bricks, reclaimed timber and earth, transforming everyday or overlooked resources into meaningful architectural expressions.

Premthada’s work has received wide international recognition, including a Special Mention at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, where his Elephant Chapel highlighted architecture’s potential to foster interspecies coexistence and collective care. His projects have been exhibited globally, and his practice is frequently discussed within contemporary debates on sustainability, ethics and more-than-human design.

Beyond practice, Premthada is deeply committed to education and knowledge exchange. Through teaching, research, and collaboration, he advocates for architecture as a tool for empathy, learning and long-term cultural resilience, rooted in place, yet relevant to global challenges. He has taught graduate-level design studios at Columbia GSAPP and the University of Hong Kong His works are held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and M+ Museum in Hong Kong.