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Southern Vietnamese Modernist Architecture - Mid-Century Vernacular Modernist=Southern Vietnamese Modernist Architecture - Mid-Century Vernacular Modernist

Author :  Mel Schenck & Alexandre Garel

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Country
Vietnam
Publisher
The Gioi
ISBN 9786047778904
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2020
Bib. Info 456 p,16 x 24
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"Southern Vietnamese Modernist Architecture" features beautiful architectural photography that illustrates the outstanding accomplishment of the people of southern Vietnam in developing a mid-century modernist architecture that is extraordinary in the world. Especially for Americans, Vietnam has been a war instead of a country. The world didn’t notice that the Vietnamese were simultaneously constructing modern apartment buildings, houses, large public buildings, and public housing as they developed a new nation. And the world didn’t anticipate that this architecture would be so overtly modernist rather than an adaption of traditional Vietnamese designs to the continuation of colonial architecture. In the mid-twentieth century, southern Vietnamese architects developed a version of modernist architecture that accommodated the tropical climate and reflected the identity of a newly-independent culture. It demonstrates the innate sense of design of Vietnamese and it represented the outlook of the people of southern Vietnam as they looked towards the future, even in the face of war.

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