Supitya Shukes was born in 1926 and was educated at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, where he studied Architecture. He is then recorded as travelling to Australia in December 1948 and attending the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1952 with a BArch, having been a recipient of a grant from the Thai government.  By the following year, Shukes had returned to Thailand and was working as an architect for the Public Works Department, based in Bangkok. In September 1956 he enrolled on the six-month, postgraduate course at the Architectural Association’s (AA) Department of Tropical Architecture, in London. Little is known regarding Shukes’ career after graduating in 1957, but puzzlingly, a document within the Otto Koenigsberger collection refers to Shukes has having held the ‘Presidency of the Council of Ministers’.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Department of Tropical Architecture, student listing, Otto Koenigsberger Collection, Box OK27, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minute Books, 25th February, 1957, p133. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership List, 1961
• National Archives of Australia; Inward passenger manifests for ships and aircraft arriving at Fremantle, Perth Airport and Western Australian outports from 1897-1963; Series Number: K 269; Reel Number: 100
• The Age (Melbourne), 7th April, 1952, p.2
• The West Australian, 1st January, 1949 p.2
• Housing and Town and Country Planning, 7-11, 1953, p114