INDA

INDA PARADE 2026_COMMON STRUCTURE International Guest Lectures  
 Andrea Caputo @andreacaputodotcom presented Dropcity @dropcity_org and shared reflections on architecture, cities, and alternative platforms for design culture. 
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Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, co-founders of Grafton Architects @graftonarchitects , delivered a special talk on their practice, discussing the relationship between architecture and education through their work and teaching experience. ✨ Elena Manferdini @elenamanferdinieducation contributed an inspiring lecture exploring artificial intelligence, ornament, and patterns in contemporary design. ✨
Gary Leggett @leggettcahuas concluded with an incredible presentation on a house constructed in the Peruvian desert, sharing insights into landscape, materiality, and context. 
Photos: Napat Pattrayanond @beebaa Curator: Davide Contran @davidecontran Assistants: Nachayada Lekpaijitr @opalnacha and Wasu Suwaphanich @was__u Venue: Montien Mall at Montien Hotel, Surawong, Bangkok @montiensurawongbkk

INDA PARADE 2026_COMMON STRUCTURE Reviews Over the four days of INDA Parade 2026, students presented their final works to a wide audience of external guests, Thai and international critics, alumni, and design professionals. Through reviews, discussions, and presentations, students had the opportunity to share their ideas, receive feedback, and engage directly with voices from different creative and professional backgrounds, making INDA Parade a dynamic platform for exchange within the Faculty of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University. (@chula_arch ) 
Photos: Napat Pattrayanond @beebaa Curator: Davide Contran @davidecontran Assistants: Nachayada Lekpaijitr @opalnacha and Wasu Suwaphanich @was__u Venue: Montien Mall at Montien Hotel, Surawong, Bangkok @montiensurawongbkk

INDA PARADE 2026_COMMON STRUCTURE 
Awards & Public Talk
 We look back on the unforgettable days of the INDA Parade through this selection of photos capturing the spirit of the public events. From the inspiring opening speech by Assistant Professor Sarayut Supsook, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture (@chula_arch ), to the incredible Super Crit and PechaKucha presentations, engaging alumni talks, and the fantastic award ceremonies, the event celebrated creativity, collaboration, and achievement across our community.

More than 50 awards were presented to memorable and outstanding projects from the 2025–2026 academic year, recognizing the dedication, innovation, and hard work of our students and faculty.
 Photos: Napat Pattrayanond @beebaa Curator: Davide Contran @davidecontran Assistants: Nachayada Lekpaijitr @opalnacha and Wasu Suwaphanich @was__u Venue: Montien Mall at Montien Hotel, Surawong, Bangkok @montiensurawongbkk

Y3 Housing Options Studios
Vernacular Mutations Today’s world is marked by ecological instability, with the construction industry responsible for roughly 40% of energy use, 36% of CO₂ emissions, and significant waste. Vernacular architecture offers an alternative: an environmentally attuned intelligence shaped by local climates, materials, and social practices. As articulated by Bernard Rudofsky in Architecture Without Architects, it operates as a collective, adaptive system embedded in everyday life. Examples such as the Moray terraces in Peru, the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, and the wind towers of Yazd demonstrate how architecture emerges from specific environmental conditions. Rather than nostalgic artifacts, these precedents suggest a forward-looking approach. Vernacular mutations reinterpret traditional tectonics within a post-carbon framework, proposing new ecologies, adaptive settlements, and sustainable infrastructures that challenge dominant modes of construction. Studio Instructor: 
Davide Contran Student: 
Nachayada Lekpaijitr #mutations #vernaculararchitecture #environment #traditionaltectonics

Fulvio Irace | Green over Grey | Emilio Ambasz On February 5, 2026, the Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University (@chula_arch ), with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Bangkok (@iicbangkok ), was honored to host Fulvio Irace, architectural historian and critic, and Professor at the Politecnico di Milano. The lecture explored the work and vision of Emilio Ambasz, a pioneering figure in the relationship between architecture and landscape, known for his theory of “Green over Grey”: an approach that envisions buildings capable of merging with nature, almost disappearing into it, and restoring centrality to the ground and the landscape. A highly inspiring event for younger generations of architects, addressing the theme of nature today more relevant than ever which Ambasz anticipated and explored as a true pioneer. The event was moderated by Davide Contran (@davidecontran ), faculty member of INDA.

Y3 Housing Options Studios
Strange Fictions: The City on the Edge of Tomorrow Existing in tension between the real and the imagined, the studio invited students to explore world-building as a vehicle for architectural vision. From Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Imaginary Prisons to Étienne-Louis Boullée’s cenotaphs, Claude Nicolas Ledoux’s City of Chaux, Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer’s Highrise City, Cedric Price’s Fun Palace, and Superstudio’s Supersurface, such projects critiqued their contexts while projecting new technological, spatial, and social possibilities. They revealed narratives about their respective societies and cultures that transcended mere factual detail. They inspired desire, fear, and wonder in the collective imagination of their time. Similarly, the studio undertook an archaeological expedition to the future. Each project is a speculative hyperbole assembled from contemporary realities, unearthing untold stories that exist in the substrata between fact and fiction—between today and tomorrow. They inspire desire, fear, and wonder in the collective imagination of our time. Studio Instructor: Hseng Tai Lintner Student: Yushan Lu #fiction #worldbuilding #architecturalvision

Year 2 | Architectural Phantoms 
 In Architectural Phantoms, students were asked to look beyond the idealised image of iconic buildings and investigate what they actually hide. Through archival research and material analysis they uncovered hidden “phantoms” within canonical projects, then used methods of detournement to design critical elements, subsequently deploying these in larger spatial interventions functioning as critical counter-narratives. In Phase 2, students gave their uncovered phantom physical form by designing a “critical element”, a tangible, tectonic critique born from their Phase 1 investigation. Using detournement, they hijacked and reimagined the tectonic language of their analysed element, such as its forms, materials, and assembly logic, to construct a new narrative that subverts and challenges the original. The goal was not to solve the problem found, but to make the argument physically present and potent through creative inquiry.
 Studio Coordinator:
Tom Jenkins 
Studio Instructors: Bada Choi, Jane Chongsuwat, Vlado Danailov, Deniz Guvendi, Dr. Sorachai Kornkasem, Thomas Lozada, Payap Pakdeelao, Joris Putteneers, Warisara Sudswong, and Eiji Sumi Selected Students:
01-02. Ratiwat Yenpetch 03. Pann Nitipaparnan 04. Natchaphat Torrarit 05-06. Chadisa Srisantisuk 07-08. Winarin Pokawattana 09-10. Nutthanon Meesatworraphat 11-12. Praewa Poovasathien 13-14. Suppatsiri Ariyanon 15-16. Chanon Kiatkawinwong 17. Wongwath Thepiyabutra 18. Pongthaneth Yeesarn 19-20. Jedsarith Laokarnkigkul 
#detournment #architecture #criticalelement #tectonics #designinvestigation

As part of the public program of INDA PARADE 2026, this year’s Parade Guests will join a series of lectures that extend the review beyond the exhibition itself, creating moments of dialogue between students, faculty, and the wider architectural community. The program includes a series of international guest lectures and reviews led by practitioners offering diverse and relevant perspectives in the field of architecture, including Andrea Caputo (@andreacaputodotcom ), Elena Manferdini (@education_manferdini ), and Gary Leggett (@leggettcahuas ), as well as a special online lecture by Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell from Grafton Architects (@graftonarchitects ). Curated by Davide Contran @davidecontran / Distortion Studio @distortionstudio.eu Assistants: Opal Nachayada Lekpaijitr and Nuan Wasu Suwaphanich 📍 Montien Mall at Montien Hotel, Surawong, Bangkok 📅 5–8 May 2026 🕘 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM #cuinda #indaparade #commonstructure

As part of the public program of INDA PARADE 2026, this year’s Parade Guests will join a series of lectures that extend the review beyond the exhibition itself, creating moments of dialogue between students, faculty, and the wider architectural community. The program includes a series of international guest lectures and reviews led by practitioners offering diverse and relevant perspectives in the field of architecture, including Andrea Caputo (@andreacaputodotcom ), Elena Manferdini (@education_manferdini ), and Gary Leggett (@leggettcahuas ), as well as a special online lecture by Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell from Grafton Architects (@graftonarchitects ). Curated by Davide Contran @davidecontran / Distortion Studio @distortionstudio.eu Assistants: Opal Nachayada Lekpaijitr and Nuan Wasu Suwaphanich 📍 Montien Mall at Montien Hotel, Surawong, Bangkok 📅 5–8 May 2026 🕘 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM #cuinda #indaparade #commonstructure

For INDA PARADE 2026, the manifesto “COMMON STRUCTURE” reflects on architecture as a shared stage where different ideas, identities, and generations can coexist. Across all four years of INDA, projects become part of a collective framework shaped by dialogue, experimentation, and responsibility. By embracing plurality across time, methods, and perspectives, the exhibition reveals how architecture can transform individual visions into a network of shared possibilities under one common structure. Curated by Davide Contran @davidecontran / Distortion Studio @distortionstudio.eu Assistants: Opal Nachayada Lekpaijitr and Nuan Wasu Suwaphanich 📍 Montien Mall at Montien Hotel, Surawong, Bangkok 📅 5–8 May 2026 🕘 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM #cuinda #indaparade #commonstructure

The Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University presents INDA PARADE 2026, the annual event showcasing and celebrating the work developed across all four years of INDA. Under the theme “COMMON STRUCTURE” this edition brings together the ideas, methods, and visions that shape the entire academic journey, revealing how diverse approaches can converge into a shared framework of research, experimentation, and design. Curated by Davide Contran @davidecontran / Distortion Studio @distortionstudio.eu Assistants: Opal Nachayada Lekpaijitr and Nuan Wasu Suwaphanich 📍 Montien Mall at Montien Hotel, Surawong, Bangkok 📅 5–8 May 2026 🕘 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM

We are pleased to share the news about the launch of 2G n.96: Bangkok Tokyo Architecture (@2g_magazine ), celebrating the work of Bangkok Tokyo Architecture—co-founded by Wtanya Chanvitan (@wtanya.fon ) and Takahiro Kume (@taka.bkk.tyo ), whose contributions as instructors in our program continue to enrich both our academic environment and the broader architectural discourse. Join us at Bangkok Kunsthalle on Wednesday, April 8, at 7 PM. Edited by Moisés Puente and published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, the monograph brings together 15 projects, with texts by Andy Groarke and Pornpas Siricururatana, and photographs by Ratthee Phaisanchotsiri and Soopakorn Srisakul. The evening will begin with a brief presentation, followed by a roundtable discussion with Pornpas Siricururatana, Ratthee Phaisanchotsiri, and Nuttinee Karnchanaporn, moderated by Davide Contran (@davidecontran ). The conversation will explore architectural publication, representation, documentation, and inhabitation through the perspectives of contributors and inhabitants. Founded in 2017, Bangkok Tokyo Architecture (@bangkoktokyoarchitecture ) is fascinated by open-ended structures and the thoughtful assembly of everyday elements. Their practice explores ways to liberate architecture from the realm of experts and professionals, aiming to discover potential models of continuity.