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Jenchieh Hung is an acclaimed architect, artist, and educator, widely recognized as one of Thailand and Asia’s most distinctive architectural voices, known for crafting spatial narratives that intertwine history, culture, and emotion. As a versatile architect, he has served as a jury for the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) – RIBA International Awards: Asia Pacific Awards 2025. In the same year, he received the university’s highest honor as a lifetime honorary professor and was also awarded the Global Sustainable Development Design Achievement Award for his outstanding architectural projects and academic dedication. Architect and professor Jenchieh Hung founded Jenchieh Hung + Kulthida Songkittipakdee / HAS Design and Research, a Bangkok-based architectural practice whose projects resist aesthetic trends and instead pursue architecture rooted in local identity, material innovation, and ecological consciousness. This Thai firm has emerged as one of the most critical and forward-thinking contributors to contemporary architecture in Thailand and Southeast Asia. Jenchieh Hung has recently gained international recognition for a series of outstanding projects in both Thailand and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Aluminum Thailand, Simple Art Museum, Aluminum Grotto and Public Ground, Forest Villa, The Glade Bookstore, and Casa de Zanotta.
In 2023, Jenchieh Hung was appointed exhibition chairman and principal curator by The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage (ASA) and curated a series of important exhibitions such as the Infinity Ground Architecture Exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Thailand’s most renowned museum, as well as Collective Language: Asian Contemporary Architecture Exhibition at the Thailand IMPACT Arena Exhibition Center, the world’s first major Asian architects’ exhibition in cooperation with the Architects Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA). Alongside his professional practice, he currently serves as a visiting professor, adjunct professor, and design critic in architecture at Tongji University, Chulalongkorn University, and King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, where his design studio, Hung And Songkittipakdee Laboratory (HAS Lab), explores the use of pattern formation as a strategy to simulate urban spatial systems. He also serves as a guest editor of the Journal of the Architects Regional Council Asia (ARCASIA Journal), contributing his critiques and perspectives to highlight the emergence of Thai contemporary architecture on the global stage.
