Architecture of Hoi An
A number of Hoi An’s wooden buildings date from the first half of the 19th century or earlier. Imaginative visitors feel thai they have been transported back 3 couple of centuries to s time when the wharf was crowded with sailing ships, the streets teemed with porters transporting goods to and from warehouses, and traders [...]
Open house
Home, guesthouse, men’s club, training centre, committee room and religious space - there are many uses for the soaring Bahnar communal house being built at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi Dr. Claire Sutherland reports.
Opened in June of this year, the Bahnar communal house tells a story of international co-operation to rescue a traditional [...]
Vietnamese Architecture
Vietnamese architecture arises from the Kings Hung dynasty.
Before the 10th century, villages and hamlets appeared in this period according to several tales of Linh Nam. The ancient Vietnamese used wood to build houses to protect themselves from tigers and wolves. Two kinds of houses were depicted on the bronze drums; one in the shape of [...]
Ruong house
Hue has long been Vietnam’s centre of wooden architecture and many of the buildings here, royal palaces included, are Ruong style.
A typical Ruong house is noble vet cosy, hinting of the imperial finesse that once dominated this city. Each one is made up of compartments (which are separated by rows of columns) and side-wings (which [...]
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