Military Architecture
Hue Imperial City Architecture
For nearly 400 years (1558-1945), Hue was the metropolis for nine king dynasties, which was first established since Tran dynasty (1366). That was the capital city of Tay Son dynasty, until the 13 kings of Nguyen dynasty. Former imperial city of Hue still reserved many tangible and intangible heritages, which are the symbols of Vietnamese [...]
Tay Do Citadel Architecture
Tay Do citadel or Ho Dynasty citadel (The only stone citadel left in South East Asia), was built by Ho Quy Ly in 1397 under Tran Thuan Tong king dynasty (1388-1398).This is a rare big scale stone architecture of Vietnam, and it is the unique in the South East Asia. It is also one of [...]
Hoa Lu Imperial City Architecture
Hoa Lu citadel is located in Truong Yen commune, Gia Khanh district, Ninh Binh province, about 100km from the West South from Hanoi. After Co Loa, Hoa Lu is the typical building of the method of building base on the advantages of natural land. Perhaps due to that fact, Hoa Lu has the unique shape [...]Landscape Garden Architecture
Rock Garden in the garden house
Rock garden is a nice hobby which has the artistic features and created by carving the lifeless stone blocks and curling the small grass trees into the ancient tree shapes and places the spirit in the cement, soil, and glue to create a small nature scene. The art to create the rock garden would be [...]
Landscape water in the garden house architecture
There must be nothing purer and cooler than the water, therefore, water ornament objects are becoming the popular trend in the garden architecture. The ideal solution for architecture of water ornament is a big house for a yard or a floating pavilion, or at least a corner of the yard. People could create a small [...]
Lac Tinh Vien Garden House
Crossing the main dome gate of the iron wood gate of Lac Tinh Vien in no 65 Phan Dinh Phung Street, Hue city, we were like in the other world. It was quiet and close to the nature. Every crowdedness of the city or the heat of the summer is left behind. In front of [...]
An Hien Garden House Architecture
An Hien garden house is designed in the standard structure of Hue’s garden house architecture which is influenced by the Feng Shui principles. There is the integration between the architecture and nature. The complex of the garden house is about 5000 sq m, and it faces the Huong River. The main object of the house [...]
Y Thao Garden Architecture
Y Thao Garden House is located in no 03 Thach Han Street, Hue. It has the area of 1,300 sq m and was built five decades ago. In the middle of the entrance gate, there is a false mountain, which is made from the stone blocks to create the screen. The two sides are other [...]Religious Architecture
Communal house – Vietnam’s culture
The communal house is long a familiar feature for Vietnamese people. It witness all the activity, the principle, the changes in society of Vietnam’s rural area across centuries. The communal house architecture is, therefore, carries deep remarks of the traditional sculpturing of Vietnamese. In 18th century, Vietnam had about 11800 villages. Each village has a [...]
Tay Dang Communal House
The communal house is located in Tay Dang commune, Ba Vi district, Hanoi, which worships Saint Tan Vien. It is considered one of the most ancient communal houses in Vietnam. Tay Dang communal house has an one-script shaped unique architecture, the first building materials were completely jack fruit wood, in the process of repairation later [...]
Dinh Bang Communal House
Dinh Bang communal house, located in Dinh Bang commune (Tu Son), is a famous ancient communal house the Northern built in 1736. It worships three village tutelary gods including Earth spirit, Water spirit and Cultivation spirit. Dinh Bang consists of all three clusters of cultural relics, especially relics under Ly dynasty, forming a unique memorial [...]
Chu Quyen Communal House Architecture
Located along the Red River dike, Chu Quyen communal house, also called Chang communal house, under Chu Minh commune, Ba Vi district. This communal house has many features of the architecture and decorative carvings that the others do not have. Like most of communal houses in Hanoi, Chu Quyen communal house has a set of [...]
Ngoc Son Temple Architecture
Ngoc Son Temple was constructed in the 19th century. Initially it was called Ngoc Son Pagoda (玉山), then changed into Ngoc Son Temple as it worships God Wenchang, the star sent home the scientific literature and worships Tran Hung Dao, a hero defeating Mongolian enemy in the 13th century. Ngoc Son Island was formerly known [...]Traditional Village Architecture
The village gate
The village gate was closed to the spiritual life of the people in North Delta long ago. The people who are far away from village could come to the land of the sweet homeland after seeing that gate. The village gate’s time was not known but it is the strong evidence for the development of [...]
The gate of village of Mo Tho
Have been existing for more than 100 years, acquiring the ancient architecture feature, standing quietly in the beginning of the village, the cultural heritage of Mo Tho village (Làng Mỏ Thổ) is the village gate in Minh Duc commune, Viet Yen district, Bac Giang province. The gate of Mo Tho includes all the features of [...]
House Architecture in Binh Dinh
It is first and foremost to mention the thatched cottage and earthen wall, bamboo frame, thatched roof. The wealthier family would make the house foundation from laterite. The pillars are the trunk of areca tree or china trees taken from the garden in the house. People often see those cottages with three rooms and two [...]
Unique architecture of house in Central Highlands
Living house of Central Highland people could be divided into three main types Solid house on tilt: people of the ethnic groups like Se Dang, Bahnar, Ede. The house pillars are big wood and high floor. The house on tilt of half-firm one: People of groups like Ca Tu, Je, Trieng and some other groups [...]
House Architecture in Central Highland
One of the traditional typical features of the tangible culture of Central Highland is the living house architecture. The communal house of the Bana and Sedang are considered the symbol of Central Highland. The normal feature of the house is the axe-shaped roof or the round roof of tens of meters high, and all are [...]Palace Architecture
Overview about Palace Architecture
Palace architecture is the typical architecture of feudal dynasties of Vietnam. This type requires mobilizing and gathering the material and labor forces of the whole country or a region, which expresses the wealth and power of each period of each King. This could be said to be the biggest scale architecture among the feudal architecture [...]Event - News
Phu Huu Communal House – The national cultural and architecture heritage
Phu Huu communal house is the name after the name of the hamlet. It is currently in the Phu Hoa commune, Cai Tau Ha town, Chau Thanh district, Dong Thap southern province. In terms of architecture scale, this is one of the big communal houses in Dong Thap province. According to the stories of the [...]
Ancient house Huynh Cam Thuan in Dong Thap province
Ancient house of Huynh Cam Thuan is recognized as the architectural and art vestige of nation, the Dong Thap general museum has just achieved the certificate of Ministry of culture, sport and tourism. This house was built by Mr. Huynh Cam Thuan – a Chinese businessman living in Sa Dec town. After he died, he [...]
Green architecture for sustainable living in Vietnam
Said Nguyen Tan Van, chairman of the Viet Nam Association of Architects: “Vietnam was developing green architecture to curb environmental pollution and offer sustainable living conditions”, at a seminar in Ha Noi. Vietnamese architects shared their experiences in building green projects at the seminar entitled Green architecture from building reality in Viet Nam. Experts agreed [...]
Hue eyes conservation of garden houses
March 03, 2012 10:23 PM..The People’s Committee of the central Vietnamese province of Thua Thien Hue has instructed Hue, the former imperial citadel, to take immediate steps to preserve its 150 ancient garden houses as part of preservation project. Phan Ngoc Tho, deputy chairman of the committee, was quoted by Tuoi Tre newspaper as saying [...]
