…..But it still has to be said that his mining of the traditional Thai building vocabulary is compelled not by the need to repackage and represent a marketable exotic “otherness”.  And his search for a modern Thai architecture steers clear from easy sentimentality or any nationalistic sentiments.  The DNA of the Thai vocabulary is spliced with a modern vocabulary not gratuitously but through questions revolving around what cultural continuity means, what responding to climatic determinants means, etc.  Embedded in all that is his experiments with tectonics designed and executed with modern technology to breathe new life into age-old ideas……

Vincent Lim