Khaisang Sukhavadhana was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1935. He gained a B.Arch. at the prestigious Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, in 1958, followed by a Masters in Education (M.ed) at the same institution, in 1964. He is then recorded as enrolled on the 1964-65 postgraduate course run by the Architectural Association’s Department of Tropical Studies, in London, where he registered on the Department’s ‘General Course’. He was awarded the AA Diploma in Tropical Studies in March 1965. By 1969 he had returned to Bangkok and was on the Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University, where he was to develop an distinguished academic career, producing numerous influential publications on the history of Thai architecture and gardens, including his seminal ‘The Chinese-influenced Thai Buddhist Monasteries of the Early Rattanakosin Period’ (1982).

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1945-71. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 26th April, 1965
• Architectural Association Membership Register, 1969, 1974
• Tapingkae, A. ‘Directory of Selected Scholars and Researchers in Southeast Asia,’ Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development, 1974
• ‘The Chinese-influenced Thai Buddhist Monasteries of the Early Rattanakosin Period’ (1982), The James Thompson Foundation, 1982
• Sukhavadhana, K. ‘The Thai Garden,’ Manusya, Journal of Humanities: Vol. 2, No. 2 (1999), pp.106-120