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Vo Trong Nghia: Building Nature (Paperback)
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A career-spanning, slipcased monograph in two volumes presenting
the work of one of Asia's most thoughtful and innovative
architects. With rising populations around the world and the
pressures of looming climatic catastrophe, the work of Vo Trong
Nghia is a call for architecture to transform itself from a source
of pollution to a reason for hope. Nor is this idea anecdotal: the
World Green Building Council estimates that 39% of energy-related
carbon emissions can be attributed to buildings. An awareness of
architecture's responsibilities has permeated the profession in the
developed world, while new ideas and solutions are coming from
places where these issues are most acute. Following a long recovery
from decades of war, Vietnam has emerged as one of the most
exciting centres of design Asia - led largely by the work of Vo
Trong Nghia, born one year after the end of the Vietnam War, whose
work has gained an international following. As a student in Japan,
he studied under the minimalist architect Hiroshi Naito and
encountered the work of the Colombian architect Simon Velez, a
proponent of bamboo architecture with its large spans and high,
voluminous spaces - the ideas and teachings of both were to have a
profound influence on his own designs. The buildings of Vo Trong
Nghia Architects, established in Ho Chi Minh City in 2006, make
clear reference to these sources and influences of the past, and to
Vo's own adherence to the Five Precepts of Buddhist teaching. The
architect's two main themes - green architecture and bamboo as a
building material - form the basis of this two-volume celebration
of his work. From the Wind and Water Bar, his first foray into
bamboo as a building material, to resort complexes, art
installations and his game-changing series of residences, House for
Trees, Vo Trong Nighia: Building Nature proves that green
architecture creates local relevance, beauty and elegance in its
own right.
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