Putting a tree on a building doesn’t make it green, says Vo Trong Nghia, one of Vietnam’s most innovative and progressive architects.
Binh Thanh House, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam: A concrete spiral staircase leads up to the first-floor living room. He encourages using architecture as a measure to lower carbon emissions and fight air pollution.
A new, two-volume monograph of the Nghia’s work — “Vo Trong Nghia: Building Nature,” with an introduction by noted architecture writer Philip Jodidio — shows building design through a different prism: the meditative nature of Buddhism. Nghia is connected to nature and spirituality, spending three years studying and meditating at a Buddhist center. His work is bursting with gardens and greenery inside and out at homes, hotels and even schools.
One volume focuses on greenery and the other on bamboo, a sustainable building material he employs in fascinating ways, as shady art installations, domed roofs for bars and even as a decorative covering for ceilings. In addition to introducing you to new ideas, the books’ building locations throughout Vietnam will introduce you to both rural and city life there.
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