thingsmatter is committed to practicing architecture
as both a critical discipline and a fine art, as an instrument for cultural
enlightenment rather than narrow economic gain. The studio’s early work
in Bangkok included a series of temporary interventions in commercial spaces
which criticized the consumer culture which hosted them, while simultaneously
celebrating the opportunity for communication to a diverse audience, and the
material extravagance that only shopping malls can realistically provide.
Recent work extends the working methods, tactility, and
human scale of thingsmatter’s event architecture to more traditional
building programs, including private residences that simultaneously function as
very public statements on the nature of the contemporary city.