Sumet Jumsai Explained

Sumet Jumsai
Native Name:	สุเมธ ชุมสาย ณ อยุธยา
Native Name Lang:	th
Birth Place:	Bangkok, Thailand
Occupation:	Architect and painter
Significant Buildings:	Robot Building

Sumet Jumsai na Ayudhya (born 1939 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai architect.^[1] 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

Image	Architecture	Location	Date
	British Council Building	Bangkok	1970
	Science Museum	Bangkok	1976
		Bangkok	1986
	International School Bangkok	Bangkok	1991
	Nation Building	Bangkok	1991
	Privy Council Chambers	Bangkok	2004
	S.31 - Bird Building	Bangkok	2009
	Siriraj Hospital - Srisavarindhira Building	Bangkok	2011
	New Art Museum (NAM), Langsuan	Bangkok	2015
Image	Painting		Date
	"Jeepney", Paris, 23.II.2000. Oil and oil pastel on canvas 80 x 100 cm		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		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

Further reading

• Brian Brace Taylor & John Hoskin. Sumet Jumsai. Asia Books (1996). .
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Kultermann, Udo. "Architecture in South-East Asia: Thailand" . MIMAR: Architecture in Development 20 (1986): 52–29. Singapore: Concept Media Ltd.
2. Web site: Sumet Jumsai: รายละเอียด . 2009-05-02 . 2012-06-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120612214620/http://art.culture.go.th/index.php?case=libraryDetail&tbo_id=8&file_id=639&rhy_book_id=778 . dead .
3. Book: Thailand Handbook. 9781903471548. Eliot. Joshua. Bickersteth. Jane. 2003. Footprint.