The Glass House is honored to welcome visionary architect Kulapat Yantrasast for an evening of conversation, design, and dining. Joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, they will explore Yantrasast’s remarkable museum projects, including two commissions at the Musée du Louvre and the newly transformed Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

This special event will take place on Saturday, September 13, 2025, beginning with a cocktail reception in the Glass House and concluding with a conversation and seated dinner in the Painting Gallery—a singular opportunity to dine together while surrounded by works of art by Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and others. 

INDIVIDUAL TICKETS

SOLD OUT – Cocktails + Dinner + Conversation | $700
Full access experience and reserved seat for dinner + conversation

Dinner + Conversation Only | $600
Reserved seat for dinner + conversation

PROGRAM: 

4:00pm – Cocktail Hour in the Glass House
5:15pm – Conversation
6:00pm – Seated Dinner in the Painting Gallery 

Seating is limited to 50 people to preserve intimacy and quality of experience. Tickets may be transferable upon request but are not refundable. All proceeds from this event support preservation and programming at The Glass House.

This event is made possible through the generosity of our Supporting Sponsors: 

David Harrison, AIA
Design Within Reach
Zubatkin Owner Representation 

LEARN MORE ABOUT: 

Kulapat Yantrasast is the Founder, Managing Principal, and Creative Director of WHY Architecture. Born in Bangkok, he worked for eight years as a close associate to the Pritzker Prize Winning Architect Tadao Ando – leading several important cultural projects in the United States and European, including The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. 

Yantrasast opened the WHY Architecture workshop in 2004 in Los Angeles, California. In 2007, he led the design for the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the first LEED Gold certified museum in North America. The Grand Rapids Art Museum was WHY Architecture’s first ground-up museum project and catalyzed the next two-decades of work as a leader in the art and culture industry. In recent years, Yantrasast has acquired a reputation as one of the art world’s preeminent architects, designing genre-defying spaces which a focus on the human impact of the arts; his interdisciplinary approach to architecture and design is inspired by his passion for food, ecology and human society – viewing each project as a mix of ingredients that yields its own unique recipe.  

Recent major museum and cultural projects include the design of The Department of Byzantine & Eastern Christian Art and the renovation of The Roman Antiquities trail at the Louvre, The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dib Contemporary Art Center in Bangkok, ilmi Science Discovery & Innovation Center in Riyadh, The Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, an expansion of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, The Academy Museum of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Los Angeles, The Art Institute of Chicago, Harvard Art Museums, East Palo Alto Center for the Arts, The Ross Pavilion and West Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland, and The Yoshimoto Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. 

Paul Goldberger, who the Huffington Post has called “the leading figure in architecture criticism,” is now a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair. From 1997 through 2011 he served as the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker, where he wrote the magazine’s celebrated “Sky Line” column. He also holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at The New School in New York City. He was formerly Dean of the Parsons school of design, a division of The New School. He began his career at The New York Times, where in 1984 his architecture criticism was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, the highest award in journalism. 

He is the author of several books, including the upcoming “Ballpark: Baseball in the American City” which will be published on May 14th by Alfred A Knopf. His other works include Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry,” published in 2015 by Alfred A Knopf, Why Architecture Matters, published in 2009 by Yale University Press; Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, a collection of his architecture essays published in 2009 by Monacelli Press, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude, published in 2010 by Taschen. He is now at work on a full-length biography of the architect Frank Gehry, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf. In 2008 Monacelli published Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons, which he produced in association with the photographer Jake Rajs. Paul Goldberger’s chronicle of the process of rebuilding Ground Zero, entitled UP FROM ZERO: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York, published by Random House in the fall of 2004 and re-released in an updated paperback edition in 2005, was named one of The New York Times Notable Books for 2004. Paul Goldberger has also written The City Observed: New York, The Skyscraper, On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-Modern Age, Above New York, and The World Trade Center Remembered. 

He lectures widely around the country on the subject of architecture, design, historic preservation and cities, and he has taught at both the Yale School of Architecture and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley in addition to The New School. His writing has received numerous awards in addition to the Pulitzer, including the President’s Medal of the Municipal Art Society of New York, the medal of the American Institute of Architects and the Medal of Honor of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation, awarded in recognition of what the Foundation called “the nation’s most balanced, penetrating and poetic analyses of architecture and design.” In May 1996, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani presented him with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Preservation Achievement Award in recognition of the impact of his writing on historic preservation in New York. In 1993, he was named a Literary Lion, the New York Public Library’s tribute to distinguished writers. His other awards include the Ed Bacon Foundation’s Award For Professional Excellence in 2007, the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award from the Urban Communication Foundation in 2009, the Vincent Scully Prize from the National Building Museum in 2012, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award in 2017.  

He has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Pratt Institute, the University of Miami, Kenyon College, the College of Creative Studies and the New York School of Interior Design for his work as a critic and cultural commentator on design. He appears frequently on film and television to discuss art, architecture, and cities, and served as host of a PBS program on the architect Benjamin Latrobe. He has also served as a special consultant and advisor on architecture and planning matters to several major cultural and educational institutions, including the Morgan Library in New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, the New York Public Library, the Glenstone Foundation and Cornell and Harvard universities. He serves as special advisor to the jury for the Richard A. Driehaus Prize, a $200,000 prize awarded annually for traditional architecture and urbanism. He is a graduate of Yale University, and is a trustee of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio; the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C.; the Forum for Urban Design, and the New York Stem Cell Foundation. Paul serves as the Chair of The Glass House Advisory Council, and he resides in New York City.