Announcement: Adhoc Talk 03: Encounters with Architectural Modernism in Vietnam

We are happy to announce the completion of our third Adhoc talk on the encounters with architectural modernism in Vietnam, co-organized by the CRC in collaboration with RMIT-Vietnam and UNESCO. Weaving the examinations of our speakers, through their respective research approaches - Architectural and Anthropological, the talk explores the parallels between ideologies and the differing responses to modernism across the country. In addition, we discuss the influence and linkage of large-scale housing development for industrial, social infrastructure design in Vinh, and also the modernist building types found expressed in the buildings constructed by the populace in the South. In which, the former enhanced the producing conditions in the subjective socialist context, while the latter demonstrated the embracement of modernist architecture – giving rise to the unique vernacular modernism of the anonymous architect in Vietnam. This talk features guest speakers Mel Schneck (architect managing international design and construction, and author) and Christina Schwenkel (professor of Anthropology and Director of the program in Southeast Asian Studies (SEATRiP) at the University of California, Riverside), who draw from their recent books on architecture in Vietnam and examine these modernist building types. See below for a recording of the event and click here for more information on the talk.