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...If there is a transversal relationship between the arts, perhaps we can make our built environment both culturally and environmentally responsive...
Pham Phu Vinh
Saigoneer | 17 August 2021
...Completed in 1973, the V.A.R building at 9 Ho Tung Mau Street in Nguyen Thai Binh Ward, District 1, is a prominent example of Vietnamese mid-20th-century modernist architecture designed by architect Lê Văn Lắm...
Pham Phu Vinh
Saigoneer | 22 April 2021
What was Vietnamese architecture after colonialism?...
Pham Phu Vinh & Camille Pinson
Saigoneer | 05 February 2021
To answer what is the identity of Vietnamese architecture, most would probably name traditional architecture...
Pham Phu Vinh
Urbanist Vietnam | 25 September 2020
In the middle of the twentieth century, Southern Vietnam was one of the centres of modernism...
Pham Phu Vinh
Urbanist Vietnam | 16 October 2020
...Mostly created by homeowners or contractors spontaneously without any participation from architects, modernist dwellings in the mid-twentieth century have captured Vietnam's personality that shares lifeblood with art, cuisine, and culture...
Pham Phu Vinh
Saigoneer | 26 May 2021
...This has made Saigon a laboratory of ideas. From a collective architectural vocabulary of modernist elements, house-owners pick and tweak the language to their will...
Pham Phu Vinh
Southeast Asia Globe | 28 April 2021
Modernism diasporas can be found anywhere in the world. But in few countries, there is such a seamless transition from traditional to modernist architecture like in Vietnam...
Pham Phu Vinh
Hidden Architecture | 24 May 2021
In the middle of the twentieth century, Southern Vietnam was one of the centres of modernism...
Pham Phu Vinh
Urbanist Vietnam
| 04 January 2021
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...While international modernism favours technical decisions, its Southern Vietnamese version stands out by seamlessly blending decoration with functionality. Each element – brise soleil, pergola, louvre – begins with a practical purpose, but is elevated into an artistic composition. This tendency towards decoration became even more pronounced as this architectural language was adopted by ordinary homeowners...
Twentieth Century Society | August 2025
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