New look at Hanoi architecture
Posted: 21 Dec 2008. Filed under: Literary.
- The new Ministry of Finance exemplifies the “Western Style” of current state buildings.
Design theory and mythology in the socialist city
David Le, an American researcher studying architectural history in Hanoi, has just printed a book of photography and writing about Hanoi’s modernist architecture. The book, which was funded through a Fulbright grant, is about how design theory and mythology have come together in the socialist city. In terms of architectural history there’s been plenty on interest in pre-colonial and colonial architecture, but almost none on the modern period.
Available at the Bookworm (address below).
Click the image above to read an excerpt.
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Bookworm
4b Yên Thế, Hà Nội |
