In addition to its expression of Vietnamese identity in the Industrial Age vocabulary of modernism, southern Vietnamese modernist architecture of the mid-twentieth-century responded in innovative ways to resist the impacts of the tropical climate while enhancing the experience of natural phenomena in the environment. The video available at the link below provides the context and details of the methods used in Vietnamese modernist architecture to accomplish these objectives.
This presentation by architect Mel Schenck in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was originally developed for presentation to the design studio of Professor Erik L’Heureux in the Department of Architecture of the National University of Singapore, delivered online on 27 January 2022.
This episode is the first of two episodes comprising that presentation, with this one focusing on adaptation to the tropical climate, and the second on reuse and conservation of these historical structures from the mid-twentieth-century.
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