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Ngọ Môn – Huế imperial architecture, Nguyễn dynasty

Vietnamese architecture (Vietnamese: Kiến trúc Việt Nam) is the architectural style used by the Vietnamese through the process of historical development and the absorption and integration of regional and international architectures. Vietnamese architecture is reflected in the works from đình, shrines, temples, nhà thờ họ, citadels, palaces and housing architecture.

The architecture of the Hanoi citadel gate, Thăng Long Imperial Citadel of the Revival Lê period
Thượng Tứ gate

Ancient architecture

Ancient architecture in Vietnam had stilt houses (Vietnamese: nhà sàn) built with materials like wood and bamboo. Depictions of these houses are seen on Đông Sơn bronze drums. There are 2 types of houses with roofs curved up like a boat and roofs curved down like turtle shells. In the 2nd century BC, An Dương Vương built the Cổ Loa citadel with a spiral shape and was the first citadel built in Vietnam. Thus the name Cổ Loa, literally meaning "ancient spiral", cổ meaning ancient and loa meaning spiral.

Dynastic architecture

Traditional house in the north of Vietnam
Traditional house in the north of Vietnam
Traditional house in the central of Vietnam
Traditional house in the south of Vietnam
Traditional house in the south of Vietnam
Traditional stilt house in the south of Vietnam

Vietnamese architecture has imported influences from China; during this period, Vietnamese architecture was influenced by Buddhist architecture.[1]

Model of terracotta house (about 1st to 3rd century AD
Model of terracotta house (about 1st to 3rd century AD
Miniature house for funerary use, 1st–3rd century AD, terracotta – National Museum of Vietnamese History – Hanoi, Vietnam
Model of house and well, Thanh Hóa province, 1st-3rd century AD, earthenware - Museum of Vietnamese History - Ho Chi Minh City
Architecture of the Lê dynasty on ceramics
Tôn Nhơn Phủ, an architecture of the Nguyễn dynasty
A street in Huế during the Nguyễn dynasty

Modern architecture

The stupa in Giác Viên Temple is an expression of the absorption and integration in Vietnamese architecture
Quang Trung Museum, a modern architecture with traditional style

Modern architecture of the Vietnamese people has been influenced by the West clearly, and at the same time, there has been the absorption and fusion of East–West architecture with its own identity to shape the architecture as it is today.

Influences

See also: Dougong and French colonial architecture

Đấu củng at Bối Khê Temple
Đấu củng in the steeple of Keo Temple

Chinese architecture has influenced Vietnamese architecture immensely and many other countries around China, including Japan and Korea. While there is a lot of influence in Vietnamese architecture, there are also a few differences with Chinese architecture. The dougong (Chinese: 斗拱; pinyin: dǒugǒng; lit. cap [and] block; Vietnamese: Đấu củng) is an important part of Chinese architecture, is rarely or not found in Vietnamese architecture starting from the Lý dynasty where Vietnamese architecture began to develop and innovate away from Chinese traditional architecture. Vietnamese architecture was also influenced by feng shui (Vietnamese: phong thủy), buildings were built according to the directions and stars. A good example of this was during the construction of the Imperial City of Huế. Geomancers were consulted to find a suitable location for the citiadel. The citadel was oriented to face the Hương River (Perfume River) to the southeast. This differs from Beijing's Forbidden City in which faces true south.

French architecture has also influenced Vietnamese architecture with many colonial buildings being built with Vietnamese architecture and French architecture. The imperial palace of Huế, has many buildings using French architectural techniques and styles.

Gallery

Vietnamese wood carving typically found on the walls of old temples, a distinct feature of Vietnamese architecture

See also

References

  1. ^ Vuong, Quan-Hoang; Bui, Quang-Khiem; La, Viet-Phuong; Vuong, Thu-Trang; Ho, Manh-Toan; Nguyen, Hong-Kong T.; Nguyen, Hong-Ngoc; Nghiem, Kien-Cuong P.; Ho, Manh-Tung (2019-01-01). "Cultural evolution in Vietnam's early 20th century: A Bayesian networks analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs". Social Sciences & Humanities Open. 1 (1): 100001. arXiv:1903.00817. doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2019.100001. ISSN 2590-2911. S2CID 88524476.