Department of ARCHITECTURE Co.

Department of ARCHITECTURE Co., Ltd. is a design studio in Bangkok founded in 2004 by Amata Luphaiboon and Twitee Vajrabhaya Teparkum. It practises architecture, interior architecture, landscape and related design disciplines, taking on a broad range of programmes and scales rather than settling into a single typology.

The studio is known for spaces that treat architecture as a social and climatic device. The Commons Saladaeng turned a Bangkok community mall into a sequence of open, naturally ventilated terraces; Little Shelter wrapped a small hotel in translucent polycarbonate; the Chulalongkorn Architecture Library and the Thailand Creative and Design Center reworked institutional interiors. Other projects include Le Du restaurant, the Sala Bang Pa-in hotel in Ayutthaya, the Church of Joy and Mist Hot-spring Hotel in China.