Early work in Bangkok includes temporary interventions in commercial spaces, which criticize aspects of consumer culture, while celebrating the material extravagance and diverse audiences that only shopping malls can provide. Recent work extends the working method, tactility, and human scale of thingsmatter’s event architecture to more conventional buildings, including private residences that offer public statements on the nature of the built environment.
Savinee Buranasilapin and Tom Dannecker founded thingsmatter in 2005, after studying architecture at Princeton University. In Bangkok, they've taught, lectured, and conducted workshops at Chulalongkorn, Silpakorn, Kasetsart, Rangsit, and Bangkok Universities. Overseas, they've lectured about their work at Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia, and several international conferences.
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As a planned contemporary art museum project for Bangkok was cancelled in favor of more parking for a shopping mall, the artists transformed an established art space into a parking ramp, using the conventions of architectural construction drawings at 1:1.