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Architecture - Building materials - Production technology of the building materials: 3 in 1

The role of information transfer, transferring mode and business field of buying and selling, marketing, advertising is very important to link architects, inventors and manufacturers of building materials. In many cases, the architects do not put new materials into the buildings because lack of information.

Architecture and urban areas in the Northern part (Sai Gon - Ho Chi Minh city) in interaction with Western culture (from the middle of XVI century to the middle of XX century)

Architecture in around central returned sword lake over the past 3 centuries

Architecture of the gates of traditional houses in Duong Lam commune

Are there ontological or specific characteristics in architecture?

The Vietnamese has overpassed a long time in protecting of the motherland, maintaining the life so they accumulate valuable experiences of existence such as time saving; energy saving; hygiene and safety; adapt to the nature; community is a power; spirit exists in life; development bases on origin; inherit is an important point. This style has engraved in memory of Vietnamese community so it plays an ontological role in designing.

Club of young architects from university of civil engineering - gathering place of young architects and architectural students

Flexible space in housing

Ha Tiep communal house (Phuc Tho - Ha Tay)

Looking back the urban towns of Vietnam in 17-18th century

Looking back training architects in past years of Vietnam

Managing architectural planning, construction, restoration and renewal of Trang Tien street - Hanoi

Managing the city in accordance with the strategy

Material, equipment, new technology - tools of the present designers

Mobilizing reasonably the role of architects in architectural design to create the works have their true meaning

Motivation of architectural development

Vietnam is a poor country so should save, use thoroughly the natural energy and apply the new technology to modernize the ancestor's experiences in heating or cooling the house, preventing natural hazmful effects to build modem of Vietnamese architecture enriched with national characteristics.

Offering favourable conditions for local architects

On the public space in Hanoi's apartment quarters

In the new urban quarters, the apartment buildings are facing with reduction of construction cost in resettlement projects and the projects for low-income people or running after profits in housing projects for business or for high-income people. This is main result limiting investment on the public space - a field which diffcultly brings high profits, The developers always pay attention to the public space for unusual activities and ignore the space for daily activities because the norms of the public space for the high-rise buildings were calculated on the bases of the norms of costruction density.

Pushing up information exchanges between architects and suppliers

It is necessary to publish an Architecture Record introducing briefly new architectural buildings and advertisements on materials and equipments and an Engineering Record introducing technology and building machines, especially advertisements on construction tools and machines.

Quality of construction works - Requirements from designers, Builders, suppliers of materials, equipment, technology

Due to the construction work is a special product of goods, a result of many intermediary products so the quality of building materials from ground to the ceiling is more important. However, together with meeting the requirements on types, technical features, the supplier should consider economic norms of the products because this is one norm attracting the attention of the developer.

Suburb zone under the impact of urbanization: Some legislation and managing aspects

Thinking about establishment of specific characteristics for the Thanh Hoa city during development process

Turning Thanh Hoa into an ecological city containing terrain factors. natural landscape, agricultural and craft villages. It should put one part of the city towards Lam river linking with Sam Son tourism town. In planning, it needs to combine concentration with dispersion. Creating landscape space and large parks. Recovering the role of the system of rivers, channels and ponds, considering them as measures to establish ecological and specific features.

Unobstrusive solutions to the durable future - Experiences and architectural solutions appropriate to climate conditions in Hanoi over the past 30 years

Vietnam's architecture is putting up challenges and urgent missions to Vietnamese architects