BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURAL CULTURE IN VIETNAM

The Vietnamese nation, an aggregate of 60 nationalities, looks back to four millennia. Traditional architecture - without architects - emphasises bonds with nature. Vietnamese buildings - living houses and village halls - are accumulations of attendant arts and applied arts. In this country on the way to industrialization, concern is raised by atmospheric pollution and other environmental harms encountered in developed countries. Mass housing - needed to help housing shortage - is expected to avoid monotony and other errors observed in residential estates abroad, and to keep human scale