Parin Supawut Studio is a Bangkok-based architectural design and research studio founded by Parin Nawachartkosit and Supawut Teerawatanachai. The studio’s work is a reflection of the founders’ interests and fond appreciation of material culture, attentive details, and exquisite craftsmanship. Through a flexible and adaptive cross-disciplinary approach, Parin Supawut persistently seeks innovation through the manifestation of inspiring, yet sensitive, spaces and objects.

The studio is led by the belief that every intervention can find inherent value through bespoke designs, regardless of scale or budget limitations. We seek to redefine the concept of ‘bespoke’ by offering well thought out interventions with context and practicality at the forefront, instead of the usual notion of an unobtainable luxury. These accessible bespoke projects are developed and actualised through extensive research, deep understanding, careful prototyping, and meaningful collaboration, first and foremost, with the clients, engineers, and makers.

Parin Nawachartkosit

Parin completed both his undergraduate degree (RIBA Part 1) and master’s degree (RIBA Part 2) at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, graduating with First Class Honours and Distinction. During his master’s studies, he received the Architectural Design Prize in both the fourth and fifth years and worked as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant at the Bartlett. His final-year project was also awarded the Bartlett Medal, Public Engagement Prize, and nominated for the RIBA President’s Silver Medal. Before establishing Parin Supawut Studio in 2022, he worked at the award-winning London practice Bureau de Change, contributing to architectural projects and competitions across a range of scales, from designed objects and temporary pavilions to large-scale masterplans.

His interests lie in finding the point at which architectural necessities and practical constraints can coexist with beauty and elegance. His work is characterised by careful attention to existing conditions, material relationships, and the often-overlooked intelligence embedded within ordinary buildings and everyday acts of adaptation.

His academic research explores architecture as a practice of care and long-term stewardship. Focusing on existing buildings and overlooked urban sites, it examines how observation, maintenance, adaptation, and reuse can offer alternatives to demolition-led development. Through fieldwork, measured surveys, archival research, and post-occupancy observation, his work considers how architecture can respond more closely to the people, practices, and material conditions already present within a place.

Parin has a particular interest in the relationship between conceptual thinking and precise execution. Within the studio, he works across research, design development, visual communication, and on-site problem-solving. His approach brings together architectural narrative and practical resolution, with an emphasis on making complex ideas clear, buildable, and carefully considered.

Outside the studio, Parin designs and fabricates bespoke mechanical keyboards, combining his interests in technology, materials, and precision manufacturing. He also collects vintage furniture and enjoys computers and small-scale fabrication — interests that continually inform his appreciation of well-made objects and the details through which they acquire character over time.

Supawut Teerawatanachai

Supawut completed both his undergraduate degree (RIBA Part 1) and master’s degree (RIBA Part 2) at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, graduating with First Class Honours and Distinction. Prior to establishing Parin+Supawut Studio with Parin in 2022, he worked independently across architectural design and research projects in Thailand, collaborating closely with local builders and craftspeople while exploring material-led and experimental approaches to construction.

His interests lie in developing innovative and sustainable approaches to construction. His academic research focuses on material culture and the idea of “growth” in architecture, examining how buildings evolve through alternative methods of construction, adaptation, and phasing. Grounded in ethnographic and field-based methods, his work uses architecture as a lens through which to understand broader social, political, and environmental conditions.

His research spans subjects ranging from the role of the garden wall as a political instrument to questions of material availability within the tension between global sustainability agendas and local realities. This includes his study of Takhian timber in Thailand, exploring decolonisation through its shifting cultural, legal, and material significance.

Supawut has a particular interest in construction detailing and the process of making. Beyond architectural projects, he enjoys making nice things, from small objects to furniture built from scratch—an interest that continually feeds back into his approach to materials, details, and construction.

Outside the studio, Supawut is an avid food lover, slowly building an extensive map of places to eat across Bangkok. He takes photographs and enjoys running, often to random neighborhood, as ways of exploring and rediscovering the city.