Sumet JUMSAI  

Architect, author and painter, b. 1939, Bangkok

Academic background and affiliations :

MA, Dip.Arch, Ph.D, Cantab 1958-67

Bye Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge University, Michaelmas 1989

Faculty member of the Dept. of Architecture, Cambridge University 1991-99

National Artist, Thailand 1998 (architectural category)

Honorary Fellow, The American Institute of Architects 2001

Member of the French Académie d’ Architecture 2002

Fellow Commoner, St.John’s College, Cambridge, Lent 2003

Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne 2002-07

Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) 2008

Private practice :

In private practice with SJA Co., Ltd. from 1969, and with SJA 3D Co., Ltd. 1989-2004.  His works are published and exhibited as sampled below.

Exhibitions :

Architecture :

- Fifty Leading Architects of the World, Vienna, Austria 1986

- Projects by Sumet Jumsai Associates, Osaka International House, Osaka, Japan 1991

- Place des Nations Competition Exhibition, Geneva 1995

- Venice Biennale 1996 / International Architects Section

-Group artists / architects travelling exhibition entitled Cities on the Move ; 1997 / 8 : Vienna ; Bordeaux ; Long Island City, N.Y. ; 1998 / 9 : Humlebaek, Denmark ; Hayward Gallery, London

- Exhibition at World Economic Forum, Davos 1999

- 30 years after - revisiting architects in Udo Kultermann’s book : Architecture in the Seventies, Kévés Studio Gallery, Budapest 2000 ; Museo Regional de Guadalajara, Mexico 2001.

- Group exhibition : Arti & Architettura 1900 – 2004, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy 2004 – 5.

Painting :

- Solo at Galerie Atelier Visconti, Paris 1999 – 2000

- Group exhibition at Toit de la Grande Arche, Paris-la Défense 2002

- La Lanta Gallery, Bangkok 2014

- VERSTECKT/hidden exhibition at NG39 Art Space, Raiding, Austria 2015

Awards :

- A total of 9 Gold Medal Awards for architecture, Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage, 1982 – 1991

- Crystal Award, World Economic Forum, Davos 1999

Sample references on Sumet JUMSAI :

Books :

- Contemporary Architects, edited by Muriel Emanuel, Macmillan, London, and St. James Press, Chicago 1980 ; 2nd ed. 1987 ; 3rd ed. 1995

- The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, by John  Fleming, Hugh Honour, Nikolaus Pevsner, London 1991

- Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture, Architectural Press, London 1996

- The dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner, Macmillan, London 1996 ; Grove Dictionaries, New York 1996 ; in 34 vols ; Vol. 17, pp. 686-7.

- World Architecture 1900-2000 : A Critical Mosaic, Volume 10 : Southeast Asia and the Oceania, Kenneth Frampton and others, China Architecture & Building Press, Beijing 2000 / Springer Wien, New York 2000

Publications by Sumet JUMSAI :

Amongst which the book : NAGA - Cultural origins is Siam and the West Pacific, Oxford

University Press, 1988 & 1989 ; in Japanese, Tokyo, 1992 ; in Korean, Pusan University, Korea, 2014.