Bangkok is one of the major global cities, a metropolis that gains many world reputations, recognitions, and notoriety over time throughout history up to present. While the city is racing to catch up with changing global culture, new and updated infrastructure has been constructed to support contemporary urban lives as we have learned to accept for a city of the twenty-first century. Bangkok, like many modern cities, has become a part of a global network – the city and its citizen are gradually transformed and adopt its new urban syntax. 
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This two-week workshop is proposed as a counterpoint of a general preconception that the information technology and globalization have marred the particularity of metropolitan conditions. Transnational economic structure – branded franchise, global companies and corporations – has impacted physical manifestation of a metropolis. As a result, the proliferation of generic cities has become the twenty first century phenomena. The workshop will make an attempt to reveal and differentiate contemporary conditions where layers of local particularity montage or collide or superimpose with such generic suppositions.
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As a catalyst for an innovative vision about the future of Krung-Thep, the workshop proposes to suspend our general pre-conceptions, peeled off all of its reputations and notoriety – to re-discover the city in a fresh new way. This new vision will form the basis for an ideal “architecture of the city” project that responds to its unique conditions, even if it is seemingly idiosyncratic!!
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ติดต่อ /contact us :02 986 9434 / 02-986-9605-6

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By : Raveevarn Choksombatchai
(Associate Professor in Architecture, University of California, Berkeley)

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Workshop Schedule :

14 days (20 July – 3 August 2011) At Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Rangsit Campus

•thursday 07/21 
09:00-12:00 Introductory Lecture (only for workshop participants) 
Project Inquiries & Requirements assigned 
13:00-16:00 work session in studio

•friday 07/22 
09:00-12:00 work session in studio 
13:00-16:00 work session in studio
17:00 PUBLIC LECTURE 

•monday 07/25 
09:00-12:00 Lecture two (only for workshop participants) 

Group Discussion on Reading Assignment & Design issues 
13:00-16:00 work session in studio 

•wednesday 07/27 
09:00-12:00 pin-up 
13:00-16:00 work session in studio

•friday 07/29 
09:00-12:00 work session in studio 
13:00-16:00 work session in studio 

•monday 08/01 
09:00-12:00 work session in studio 
13:00-16:00 work session in studio 

•wednesday 08/03 
09:00-12:00 final review (with guests) 
13:00-16:00 final review (with guests) + Summation

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Open to architecture/interior design students of any institution