translator: teerachart prasertreviewer: elisabeth buffard hello. hello, everyone. can you hear me?does that sound good? ok. good. when people ask mewhy i became an architect,
Common Ground, i was struck for a moment. when she asked mewhy i became an architect. i don't know. but now i am an architect.i used to be...
actually, originally, i wanted to bea nuclear physicist. and then i found out thatmy chemistry score is not that good. and that brought me to the morning session that you said thateducation is not working. and i said it might be, otherwise i would have been a nuclear physicistat this moment. but anyway, i'm going to talkabout architecture. and while i work on so many levels of projects, you know, from residential, condominium,hotel resort, a lot of things.
but there is something in my workthat people keep talking about. they don't understand how and whyi'm working like that. there's also something in my workthat people like about. you know, when people stay in my hotel,they say that it's always the best place to have sex. and i mean, i don't know,i just work on it and i never think about that. but it's surprisingly good. anyway, so i start to rationalize my work.
you know, in the way that:how did i do it? how can i make it? and when you are actually getting old, the problem of getting old is that you start to be stuckwith what you do, right? and you never actually explorenew possibilities, new things, and you start to work like a machine. and you are really a machine, you know, like an architect as a machine. and you keep on working, working, working.
and you never look back on how you do it. and once you realize,you are just getting stuck again, and start losing your confidencre. how did i do it? how did i make it, right? so the thing is that i want to take you through my project i displayedin venice biannale last year. and it's a very small project. it's so smallthat i can put it on the stage right now so this is a project i work.
an exhibition for venice biennalelast year. so it looks like a symbol piece of work that i actually try torationalize my project to the proportion. there is one keyword thatactually describes my work. it's the world of proportion. and i think if i can understand that, i can deliver that to everyonein this room. so you can be me and work like me.
and it could be very simple for youto work like me. and it doesn't need me to do my work. and it would be my, you know, privilegeto give you all that, right? so this is the experiment project i did. and it looks like a very simple block. and actually eventually if you,you know, follow this to the end, you'll see that we can, you can all createarchitecture like what i did as simple as a cup of noodle. i forgot to press that.
anyway, alright sothe project was very simple. it's a wooden blockand it's the acrylic block. you can see that. very simple. this is acrylic block. this is wooden block. as simple as that. but the key is that i usethe proportion of all my work. there has always been someproportion that i use, like 2.7, 3.2, 5.5, 6.0, 8 millimeter, 7.2
you know, this kind of proportionthat i use. i never know where it came from. when my staff work with me, i said'this gonna be three point two.' and they said 'why not three point three.' i said 'no. just do it. three point two.' and i use that proportion that i got,you know, for all of my life: twenty-two years of works,to come up with this block. so it's a proportional block. and it seems to be, well,
the person who worked with me,her name is pai, she is one of my staff,so i name it 'pai's blocks'. and i think it's very interestingin the way that the project works. the idea is that you can put this block and put it together in any kindand any way that you want to do. it kind of creates an architecture,like, very fast. you know, right away,like a machine, like a machine. and i think that was the ideaof the exhibition i put in venice biennale. i asked people to actually play with it.
play around with it and create new kind of architecture every five minutes. so actually before i came tochiangmai on this trip, i asked my staff to do that. and they seemed to be very fun about that. so the idea is thatif you have the right methodology, design can be very simple. and i always believe in that, you know. i don't think it should be that the word'design' has anything privilege to it. it should be that design and architecturealways, you know, belong to all.
it means everyone can be an architect. everyone can be a designer. and that will help this countryactually move forward faster. i just think thatif creativity belongs to the architect, then we stuck. ok? so if we make it simple, we have to findthe right methodology for them. and it will be very simple. so i ask my team to do that as memento. if you want, i can ask someone from belowactually help you with that.
is there anyone want to do that? my son runs away.and my daughter hides behind her mother. but anyway, have a look at this.can you press the video, please? yeah. so the idea is that we use the blocks and create architecturein just only few minutes. so that's the idea. that's one architecture. and then we start moving again,and create another architecture. so i just realized in the process thatthis is real, you know.
this is somethingthat we use in the office. this has been the way i workfor at least the last ten years. but i never realize that. and it became, you know, once i understand how i do it,it became very rationalized. and i can teach other people to do it. so there's nothing very difficultabout my architecture from now on. and it can be very simple thing. here and this guy's actuallycreating another architecture.
so while we are talking, like,for the last six minutes, we have been producing likefive architectures already. and that's the whole idea. anyone from the floorwants to try these blocks? we have six minutes left,and you can play with that. anyone wants to do that?ok, cool. thank you for accepting my invitation. can you do that?ok. you have something like five minutes. so you can create onethat looks really nice.
was tempted, isn't it?you want to play with it, right? cool. ok. want to tell themthat you are an architect, right? cool. maybe another bedroom here.fill bedroom. this is like three-bedroom house, is it?yeah. a little bit of parking though. this could be a maid quarter, you know. right. it looks good, right? can we give hima little bit of applause, please?
(applause) thank you. right, so that's it.you know, architecture. you want thing thatis very difficult, right? and you have to pay mehigh fee to do that. no, it's not.you still have to pay me high fee. but it's not that difficult. and once you see or you realizeit's not that difficult, it doesn't mean that you don't haveto hire an architect to do so.
you still have to hire one. but at least you can understand morehow they work. and you can use that kind of systemto work out proportion in your life. and i think you might find something hidden behindall the rationale of what you do. maybe the music.maybe the, i don't know, writing. maybe, i don't know, engineering.factory. i don't know. but there's something behind that. if i can find a rationalebehind my complex work,
you know, in terms of aesthetic, maybe you can find also yours. and once you get deep enough,you'll find it. and it can be very simple. and once you found it,and it became very simple for you, what i ask you to do, one thing,is to give it away. just to give it away. and this block is for you. thank you so much.
translator: teerachart prasertreviewer: elisabeth buffard hello. hello, everyone. can you hear me?does that sound good? ok. good. when people ask mewhy i became an architect,
Common Ground, i was struck for a moment. when she asked mewhy i became an architect. i don't know. but now i am an architect.i used to be...
actually, originally, i wanted to bea nuclear physicist. and then i found out thatmy chemistry score is not that good. and that brought me to the morning session that you said thateducation is not working. and i said it might be, otherwise i would have been a nuclear physicistat this moment. but anyway, i'm going to talkabout architecture. and while i work on so many levels of projects, you know, from residential, condominium,hotel resort, a lot of things.
but there is something in my workthat people keep talking about. they don't understand how and whyi'm working like that. there's also something in my workthat people like about. you know, when people stay in my hotel,they say that it's always the best place to have sex. and i mean, i don't know,i just work on it and i never think about that. but it's surprisingly good. anyway, so i start to rationalize my work.
you know, in the way that:how did i do it? how can i make it? and when you are actually getting old, the problem of getting old is that you start to be stuckwith what you do, right? and you never actually explorenew possibilities, new things, and you start to work like a machine. and you are really a machine, you know, like an architect as a machine. and you keep on working, working, working.
and you never look back on how you do it. and once you realize,you are just getting stuck again, and start losing your confidencre. how did i do it? how did i make it, right? so the thing is that i want to take you through my project i displayedin venice biannale last year. and it's a very small project. it's so smallthat i can put it on the stage right now so this is a project i work.
an exhibition for venice biennalelast year. so it looks like a symbol piece of work that i actually try torationalize my project to the proportion. there is one keyword thatactually describes my work. it's the world of proportion. and i think if i can understand that, i can deliver that to everyonein this room. so you can be me and work like me.
and it could be very simple for youto work like me. and it doesn't need me to do my work. and it would be my, you know, privilegeto give you all that, right? so this is the experiment project i did. and it looks like a very simple block. and actually eventually if you,you know, follow this to the end, you'll see that we can, you can all createarchitecture like what i did as simple as a cup of noodle. i forgot to press that.
anyway, alright sothe project was very simple. it's a wooden blockand it's the acrylic block. you can see that. very simple. this is acrylic block. this is wooden block. as simple as that. but the key is that i usethe proportion of all my work. there has always been someproportion that i use, like 2.7, 3.2, 5.5, 6.0, 8 millimeter, 7.2
you know, this kind of proportionthat i use. i never know where it came from. when my staff work with me, i said'this gonna be three point two.' and they said 'why not three point three.' i said 'no. just do it. three point two.' and i use that proportion that i got,you know, for all of my life: twenty-two years of works,to come up with this block. so it's a proportional block. and it seems to be, well,
the person who worked with me,her name is pai, she is one of my staff,so i name it 'pai's blocks'. and i think it's very interestingin the way that the project works. the idea is that you can put this block and put it together in any kindand any way that you want to do. it kind of creates an architecture,like, very fast. you know, right away,like a machine, like a machine. and i think that was the ideaof the exhibition i put in venice biennale. i asked people to actually play with it.
play around with it and create new kind of architecture every five minutes. so actually before i came tochiangmai on this trip, i asked my staff to do that. and they seemed to be very fun about that. so the idea is thatif you have the right methodology, design can be very simple. and i always believe in that, you know. i don't think it should be that the word'design' has anything privilege to it. it should be that design and architecturealways, you know, belong to all.
it means everyone can be an architect. everyone can be a designer. and that will help this countryactually move forward faster. i just think thatif creativity belongs to the architect, then we stuck. ok? so if we make it simple, we have to findthe right methodology for them. and it will be very simple. so i ask my team to do that as memento. if you want, i can ask someone from belowactually help you with that.
is there anyone want to do that? my son runs away.and my daughter hides behind her mother. but anyway, have a look at this.can you press the video, please? yeah. so the idea is that we use the blocks and create architecturein just only few minutes. so that's the idea. that's one architecture. and then we start moving again,and create another architecture. so i just realized in the process thatthis is real, you know.
this is somethingthat we use in the office. this has been the way i workfor at least the last ten years. but i never realize that. and it became, you know, once i understand how i do it,it became very rationalized. and i can teach other people to do it. so there's nothing very difficultabout my architecture from now on. and it can be very simple thing. here and this guy's actuallycreating another architecture.
so while we are talking, like,for the last six minutes, we have been producing likefive architectures already. and that's the whole idea. anyone from the floorwants to try these blocks? we have six minutes left,and you can play with that. anyone wants to do that?ok, cool. thank you for accepting my invitation. can you do that?ok. you have something like five minutes. so you can create onethat looks really nice.
was tempted, isn't it?you want to play with it, right? cool. ok. want to tell themthat you are an architect, right? cool. maybe another bedroom here.fill bedroom. this is like three-bedroom house, is it?yeah. a little bit of parking though. this could be a maid quarter, you know. right. it looks good, right? can we give hima little bit of applause, please?
(applause) thank you. right, so that's it.you know, architecture. you want thing thatis very difficult, right? and you have to pay mehigh fee to do that. no, it's not.you still have to pay me high fee. but it's not that difficult. and once you see or you realizeit's not that difficult, it doesn't mean that you don't haveto hire an architect to do so.
you still have to hire one. but at least you can understand morehow they work. and you can use that kind of systemto work out proportion in your life. and i think you might find something hidden behindall the rationale of what you do. maybe the music.maybe the, i don't know, writing. maybe, i don't know, engineering.factory. i don't know. but there's something behind that. if i can find a rationalebehind my complex work,
you know, in terms of aesthetic, maybe you can find also yours. and once you get deep enough,you'll find it. and it can be very simple. and once you found it,and it became very simple for you, what i ask you to do, one thing,is to give it away. just to give it away. and this block is for you. thank you so much.