Cocktails & Conversation is a series of dialogues about design that joins an architect with a critic, journalist, curator, or architectural historian to discuss current architecture design issues. For this program, Kulapat Yantasast will sit down with Jason Kaufman over a custom-crafted cocktail.

Kulapat Yantrasast was born in Bangkok and trained in Japan, where he received his master’s and PhD degrees in architecture from the University of Tokyo. He subsequently worked for eight years as a close associate of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando. Yantrasast established wHY in 2004 with the intention of combining his experience in the art world with a deep commitment to cultural inclusivity and human flourishing.

Jason Edward Kaufman is a widely read arts journalist whose criticism and reporting have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications.