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WHY Architecture, 9520 Jefferson Boulevard Ste C, Culver City, CA (2026)

Today, why design engages in projects involving buildings, objects, grounds, and ideas with a team of more than 30 architects, landscape architects, and creative thinkers in Los Angeles, New York and Louisville. This is a question we ask ourselves with every new project, with every design decision made. Our methodology provides prompt and inspiring answers to create delightful outcomes for cultura

l, educational, real estate, commercial and private clients worldwide. Finding new perspectives, challenging assumptions, discovering new efficiencies, understanding relationships, bringing people together, and giving them room to grow characterizes our work. Each project engages a broad range of consultants, from engineers and botanists, to curators and economists, to execute with the highest degree of innovation, quality and intelligence. In less than ten years, we have built the first new green art museum in the world; expanded with the international art market by designing outposts for prominent galleries; explored the intersection of climate, landscape and architecture via an arts education facility for one of the nation’s top colleges; conceptualized and constructed several private residences; and are currently envisioning a new master plan for an historic park where the 1893 World’s Fair took place. wHY is led by founding Principal Kulapat Yantrasast. In 2012, Yantrasast was recognized as one of the art world’s top influencers and was the first architect to receive the Silpathorn Award for Design from Thailand’s Ministry of Culture in 2009.

08/21/2026

At Art Basel, Kulapat Yantrasast stepped into his new role as Artistic Director of the 2027 Bukhara Biennial, with a vision for establishing culture as infrastructure for those who call the Silk Road city home.

It's part of a bigger vision from the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF): using heritage to build the future.

The second Bukhara Biennial will run from 3 September to 21 November 2027.

08/20/2026

The Landscape as the Resort

For Packsaddle, a proposed 2,000-acre luxury wellness resort in the Texas Hill Country, the experience began with the land itself—and with the traditions of the Texas ranch.

Set against the dramatic terrain of Packsaddle Mountain, the resort was conceived not as a collection of buildings placed within a landscape, but as an experience embedded in it. Architecture recedes into the terrain, allowing guests to move through and engage with the Hill Country—its rock formations, native vegetation, water, expansive views, and changing conditions.

The programming takes its cues from the ranch as a distinctly Texas way of inhabiting the land. Horseback riding, hunting, river sports and off-road exploration sit alongside outdoor performance, gathering and dining—reinterpreting the ranch experience through the lens of contemporary luxury hospitality.

Wellness here wasn’t conceived as a discrete amenity or destination within the resort. It came from immersion in the place itself.

For us, that’s where hospitality design becomes most powerful: when the landscape isn’t simply something guests look at, but something they experience.

Project Team

Kulapat Yantrasast
Andrija Stojic
Mark Thomann Mark Thomann
Amanda Coen
Stella Buckmann
Philippe Stanfield Pinel
Sevki Topcu
Ozan Cicek
WHY Architecture | WILDING X WHY

In collaboration with Ivaylo Lefterov / Aspire Hospitality and IBCOL

08/18/2026

An oasis, imagined for Marrakech.

AFREEculture is Meryanne Loum-Martin’s vision. WHY and Wilding x WHY gave it form.

Senegalese-French, Meryanne left a law career in Paris for Marrakech, opening Jnane Tamsna in the Palmeraie in 2001. Twenty-five years on, it remains the only Black woman-owned hotel in the city—a Michelin Guide property, and a place where artists, thinkers, and the African diaspora have gathered for decades.

AFREEculture is what she imagined coming next: the same hospitality, opened outward into a cultural center.

Halls for gathering and performance sit at its center, surrounded by pools, tennis, a spa, quieter social rooms, and gardens grown for food—an idea Meryanne and her husband, ethnobotanist Gary Martin, have been practicing for decades.

Earth-red arcades run between them. Water follows narrow channels underfoot, borrowing the logic of the khettara, the underground irrigation system that made farming possible here centuries ago. An old kasbah holds the edge of the site.

AFREEculture has not been built. The vision is there. If you want to help make it real, get in touch.

Project team:
Kulapat Yantrasast, Mark Thomann, Andrija Stojic, Amanda Coen, Sevki Topcu

08/16/2026

In Ibiza, sunset is practically a ritual.

El Silencio sits in Cala Molí, a secluded cove on the island’s western edge and one of the few places in Ibiza with a direct view of the sun dropping into the Mediterranean. For its new audiophile bar, that daily event became the design brief: bring the sunset inside, and let it last a little longer.

The bar takes its cues from Japan’s jazz kissa and listening bars—places built around the pleasure of sitting down and actually listening to music—but loosens the formality for Ibiza. At its center, a sculptural vortex catches and amplifies the changing light; a Palladium Audio system and vinyl setup take over from there.

The idea makes particular sense here. Ibiza may be famous for what happens in its clubs after midnight, but the DJs have days, too. El Silencio gives them—and everyone else—a place to put on a record, have a drink, and watch afternoon become evening.

The bar joins Urusai, El Silencio’s Japanese-inspired indoor-outdoor restaurant, at Cala Molí.
Conceived under the creative direction of WHY founder and Creative Director Kulapat Yantrasast (Kulapat Yantrasast), with design led by Oskar Bocquillon, WHY’s Head of Creative Spatial Experiences.

Photographer: Victor Jacques

El Silencio Ibiza Palladium Audio

08/13/2026

Pomona College’s Studio Art Hall reimagines the art studio as a campus crossroads, a series of pavilions arranged non-hierarchically around a central courtyard and sheltered under one sweeping roof. Strong sightlines and an indoor-outdoor ethos turn the building into a village-like, porous space where students move through, connect, and create.

Finished in 2014

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