Wannaporn Pui Phornprapha

Wannaporn Pui Phornprapha is the visionary founder of P Landscape (PLA), a landscape architecture and design studio headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. Specializing in luxury resort, hotel, and residential projects across Southeast Asia and the globe, PLA's portfolio includes works from the Fiji Islands to London. PLA maintains its global present with offices in Bangkok, Chiangmai, and Shanghai.

Wannaporn's guiding vision is rooted on three pillars of philosophy: Sustainability, Cultural sensitivity and Well-being with the aim to create timeless and sustainable design that enriches the ecology and people’s lives. She emphasizes the delicate interconnection between people and nature, her design philosophies have led PLA to international recognition by leading hotel operators and has won the firm multiple awards over the years.

PLA’s notable projects include Integral, Esquel’s Sustainable Development Garden in Guilin, which has won Gold at 2019 HKIA Cross-Strait Architectural Design Symposium, and Awards, Silver for Public Construction Projects at The 7th CREDAWARD, TALA Awards 2023 Excellence Awards for Landscape Conservation, and most recently was chosen as 2024 Architizer A+ Awards finalist for Sustainable Landscape/Planning Project. Other award-winning projects include ICONSIAM, Rosewood Phuket and K11 MUSEA Nature Discovery Park which won IFLA APR 2021 The Award of Excellent in the Skyrise Greenery category. PLA believes that urban projects foster community collaboration and enhance city environments, blending nature with urban spaces to improve ecological health and social connectivity.

Beyond her design work, Wannaporn has contributed to the academic community as guest lecturer at various universities and international conferences. She is a member of Harvard GSD Dean’s Leadership Council, and in 2017 served as the Chairperson for the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) Asia Pacific regional congress. Following the same year, she was invited by the International Garden Festival to design one of the eight permanent exhibitions in Berlin.