The first architectural exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center (BACC) in 2023 will officially open on Tuesday, July 18. "Infinity Ground - Thailand and Taiwan Contemporary Architecture Exhibition" is organized by The Association of Siamese Architects Under Royal Patronage and Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture (Taiwan), and in cooperation with Chulalongkorn University - Faculty of Architecture, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang - School of Architecture, Art, and Design, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi - School of Architecture and Design, and Silpakorn University - Faculty of Architecture.

The principal curators are Jenchieh Hung, who is the exhibition chairman of The Association of Siamese Architects Under Royal Patronage, and Kulthida Songkittipakdee, who is the co-founder and principal architect of HAS Design and Research. They curated eight architectural firms from Thailand and Taiwan to participate in the exhibition, including Architects 49 Limited (A49), Arsomsilp Community and Environment Architect, Duangrit Bunnag Architect Limited (DBALP), Department of ARCHITECTURE, Ambi Studio, MAYU architects, Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten, and Atelier Or.

Among the eight architectural firms, their exhibited architectural works are in Bangkok, Pattaya, Pathum Thani, Samut Sakhon, Nakhon Ratchasima, and Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya in Thailand; and Hsinchu, Nantou, Yunlin, Kaohsiung, Pingtung, and Yilan in Taiwan, where different cultural backgrounds, different climatic conditions, and diverse social developments are indirectly or directly expressed in how the building responds to the characteristics of the ground.

Jenchieh Hung, the exhibition chairmen of The Association of Siamese Architects Under Royal Patronage, told us: "Infinity Ground - Thailand and Taiwan Contemporary Architecture Exhibition” takes the earth as the interface, connecting all of nature as a background story. On the undulating surface, it provides conditions for the interdependence of people, buildings, and nature and balances the operating mechanisms of the environment. More than a century ago, German geologist Alfred Lothar Wegener wrote a book called The Origin of Continents and Oceans and explained that the earth is aggregated into a Pangea, surrounded by the waters of the Panthalassa, which later began to drift and split to form the basic landforms of the seven continents and five oceans. 

The exhibition continues the perspective of the “drift” and “aggregation” of the earth, presenting Thailand and Taiwan contemporary architecture in two chapters, "Ground Exchanges" and "Feeling Grounds", which show new human and nature lifestyles based on the common earth's ground: togetherness, ritual, native, porosity, extra-ordinary, nostalgic, vernacular, and boundaryless.

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