Sumet Jumsai
Sumet Jumsai na Ayudhya (born 1939 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai architect. He was named a National Artist of Thailand in 1998, 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.
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- Name
- Sumet Jumsai
- Born
- 1939
- Birthplace
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Occupation
- Architect and painter
- Awards
- * National Artist 1998
- Nationality
- Thailand
- Education
- St John's College
- Honours
- National Artist of Thailand
- Languages
- Thai
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Sumet Jumsai na Ayudhya (born 1939 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai architect. He was named a National Artist of Thailand in 1998, 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.
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Sumet Jumsai (born 1939) is an architect and painter, of Thai nationality. The architect was born in Bangkok. Sumet Jumsai was educated at St John's College.
Languages used include Thai. Honours include National Artist of Thailand.
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• Name — Sumet Jumsai • Native Name — สุเมธ ชุมสาย ณ อยุธยา • Born — 1939 • Birthplace — Bangkok, Thailand • Occupation — Architect and painter • Awards — * National Artist 1998 • Académie d'architecture 2002 • Significant Buildings — Robot Building
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• Image — Architecture — Location — Date • | — British Council Building — Bangkok — 1970 • | — Science Museum — Bangkok — 1976 • — Robot Building — 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
Jeepney, 2000
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Sumet Jumsai was born in 1939 at Bangkok.
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Jumsai, Sumet, Oxford Art Online, 2003
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- 1.Kultermann, Udo. "Architecture in South-East Asia: Thailand" . MIMAR: Architecture in Development 20 (1986): 52–29. Singapore: Concept Media Ltd.
- 2.Sumet Jumsai: รายละเอียด.
- 3.Eliot, Joshua. Thailand Handbook. Footprint. 2003. 9781903471548.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Brian Brace Taylor & John Hoskin. Sumet Jumsai. Asia Books (1996). .
- 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.
- Kusno, Abidin. Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia. Routledge. 4 April 2014. 978-1-136-36516-4.
- Bunnell, Tim. Critical Reflections on Cities in Southeast Asia. BRILL. 15 November 2021. 978-90-04-48823-6.
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