KANOKWAN TRAKULYINGCHAROEN

KANOKWAN TRAKULYINGCHAROEN

Architectural historian 

Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Architectural Theory, History and Heritage Preservation, Faculty of Architecture, University of Innsbruck

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SHORT BIO

Dr. Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen (1979, Bangkok) is an architectural historian with particular interest in the twentieth century and contemporary architecture, cities and technological culture. She received an architecture degree from the King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in Thailand and a master degree in History of Architecture from the University of Rome III, and a PhD in building engineering (architectural  and construction history) from the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’. Her PhD dissertation is about the history of the Seagram Building in New York under supervision of the late Prof. Sergio Poretti. 

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LONG BIO

Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Architectural Theory, History and Heritage Preservation, Faculty of Architecture, University of Innsbruck. Her current research interests are history and philosophy of technology, the relationship between man and technology in architecture and media theory & history. Trained as an architect and an architectural historian, she works on several topics regarding the history of architecture and construction technologies from the late 19th century to present. 

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She graduated in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in Bangkok, Thailand, and, in 2009, finished the European Master in History of Architecture from University of Rome III in Italy. Since 2006, she has been an architecture contributor for art4d magazine – a monthly magazine specialized in architecture, design and arts in Bangkok, Thailand. She received a Ph.D. in Building Engineering from the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata'​ in Italy in 2012. During the study period, she was awarded Henry Belin du Pont research fellow 2011 for developing her Ph.D. dissertation on Seagram Building in New York: a history of construction and architecture at the archive of Hagley Library and Museum in Wilmington, DE, USA. In 2013, she was a postdoctoral researcher of the "SIXXI research project – XX century Structural Engineering: the Italian Contribution (ERC Advanced Grant 2011)" in Rome for which she worked on Alfredo Cottrau and his metal construction company that operated in the late 19th century.

She is also a translator of Enzo Mari’s autobiography - 25 ways for driving a nail for a Thai edition, published in 2016 by art4d publisher, and the forthcoming translation book is Steen Eiler Rasmussen's Experiencing Architecture, for Li-Zenn publisher in Thailand.

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