Sumet Jumsai na Ayudhya () (born 1939 in

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"Architecture in South-East Asia: Thailand"
. ''MIMAR: Architecture in Development'' 20 (1986): 52–29. Singapore: Concept Media Ltd. He was named a

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in 1998; Honorary Fellow of The American Institute of Architects 2001 ; Member of the French

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2002 ; Fellow Commoner, St.John's College, Cambridge, 2003 and 2013, where he earlier obtained a doctorate degree in architecture ; and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) 2008. He is also a painter and author.

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(1996). .
Biography
from the Thai Ministry of Culture
more extensive version in Thai
*Contemporary Architects, edited by Muriel Emanuel, Macmillan, London, and St. James Press, Chicago 1980 ; 2nd ed. 1987 ; 3rd ed. 1995. *Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture, Architectural Press, London 1996. *The dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner, Macmillan, London 1996 ; Grove Dictionaries, New York 1996 ; in 34 vols ; Vol. 17, pp. 686–7. *World Architecture 1900-2000 : A Critical Mosaic, Volume 10 : Southeast Asia and the Oceania, Kenneth Frampton and others, China Architecture & Building Press, Beijing 2000 / Springer Wien, New York 2000. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jumsai, Sumet Sumet Jumsai Sumet Jumsai Members of the Académie d'architecture Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Sumet Jumsai Living people 1939 births

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