What is “French Style”? Questioning genealogies of “western looking” buildings in Vietnam
“It is such a pity that those awful architectural cake-houses spread in Hanoi like mushrooms, while colonial buildings are destroyed.” I often heard this reflection expressed in different ways while I was doing field research for my dissertation on architectural exchange in Vietnam during the colon...
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ABE Journal
2013
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | “It is such a pity that those awful architectural cake-houses spread in Hanoi like mushrooms, while colonial buildings are destroyed.” I often heard this reflection expressed in different ways while I was doing field research for my dissertation on architectural exchange in Vietnam during the colonial period. Houses in the “New French Style” (fig. 1 and 2), a kitschy patchwork of unidentified architectural styles that mixed neoclassical, Haussmanian, and regional styles were subject to sharp... |
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