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Jumsai, Sumet
(b Bangkok, 30 March 1939). Thai architect, theoretician and writer. He studied at the University of Cambridge (MA and DipArch, 1963), receiving a number of student awards including the Brancusi Travelling Fund, Breezewood Foundation Scholarship and John D. Rockefeller Fund scholarship. He also received a PhD in architectural studies from Cambridge in 1967. From 1965 to 1969 he worked as an architect for the Thailand Department of Town and Country Planning in Bangkok, and in 1969 he went into private practice there. One of the most intellectual architects in South-east Asia, Jumsai was influenced by Le Corbusier, Colin Rowe and Buckminster Fuller, and he applied contemporary European forms and technical innovations to buildings designed within the Thai context. Between 1969 and 1982, when this modernist expression was prevalent, his office, SJA 3D Co. Ltd, was responsible for over one hundred design and planning projects ranging from residences to office buildings, industrial plants and economic feasibility studies. During this period 62 factories were designed and built, the largest being the Nissan Car Assembly Plant (1977) of c. 24,000 sq. m along the Bangna-Triad Highway, Greater Bangkok. He also undertook large-scale planning projects such as Nava Nakorn Satellite Town near Bangkok for 100,000 people (from 1975). His best-known work from the period is probably the angular Science Museum (1977; with Tri Devakul and Kwanchai Laksanakorn), Bangkok, a technologically conceived design with a dramatic sloping entrance.
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