Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Lecture: 9:30 – 11:00 AM
Student Workshop: 11:00 – 12:30 PM
Venue: Silpakorn University Architecture faculty Room 104
Opening Remarks: Assoc. Prof. Dr.Kreangkrai Kirdsiri
Moderator: Siriporn Dansakun
Guest Speaker: Jenchieh Hung
From Jenchieh Hung + Kulthida Songkittipakdee / HAS Design and Research
Visiting Professor
Tongji University - College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Speaker Introduction:
Jenchieh Hung is an architect, artist, and educator, widely recognized as one of Asia’s most distinctive architectural voices. He is known for crafting spatial narratives that intertwine history, culture, and emotion. Jenchieh Hung began his career at the Japanese firm Kengo Kuma and Associates in 2014, where he rose to become Design Manager and Project In-Charge by 2018.
After years of solid professional experience, he co-founded Jenchieh Hung + Kulthida Songkittipakdee / HAS Design and Research, an architectural practice that resists fleeting aesthetic trends in favor of design rooted in local identity, material innovation, and ecological consciousness. With a practice spanning Thailand, China, and other parts of Asia, navigating diverse cultural contexts, he has earned recognition as one of the region’s most acclaimed architects, as well as a leading figure in architectural academia and exhibition curation. His international accolades include the Créateurs Design Award (France), INDE. Award (Australia), inclusion in the Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory (United Kingdom), and the Thailand Prestige Award, among others.
Jenchieh Hung has recently gained global attention for a series of landmark projects, including the Museum of Modern AluminumThailand, Simple Art Museum, Aluminum Grotto and Public Ground, Forest Villa, The Glade Bookstore, and Casa de Zanotta. In 2023.
He was appointed Exhibition Chairman and Principal Curator by The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage (ASA).That year, he curated major exhibitions such as Infinity Ground at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Thailand’s leading cultural venue, and Collective Language: Asian Contemporary Architecture at the IMPACT Arena Exhibition Center, the world’s first large-scale exhibition of Asian architects, held in collaboration with the Architects Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA). In parallel with his professional practice, Jenchieh Hung currently serves as Visiting Professor and Adjunct Professor at Tongji University—ranked #11 globally in the QS World University Architecture Rankings 2025, where his design studio, Hung And Songkittipakdee Laboratory (HAS Lab), explores pattern formation as a strategy for simulating urban spatial systems.
This lecture is part of the Upskill–Reskill initiative under the Reinventing University Project by the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University.
It is integrated into the course 261 217 Theory and Design Methodology in Japanese Architecture.