Vietnam

Modern Vietnamese architecture has been influenced by the West especially by the French – Indochina, Art Deco architecture – then by the international Modernist architecture of the 50s. Nevertheless It has developed its own language reaching even the highest level with the architect Ngô Viết Thụ, who won the First Grand Prize of Rome (Grand Prix de Rome) in 1955.
This section presents also some traditional ans socialist realism buildings and houses.