AIA Intl Vietnam - Renovating Saigon
Event Description
As a practicing architect and an academic living and working in Ho Chi Minh City, Hoanh Tran will present the city with an insider’s perspective. From the presentation, one will learn about the city’s makeup and its particularity, and how new architectural design can be negotiated into the existing urban/ social fabric.
Ho Chi Minh City’s identity has been acquired through the accumulation of many versions of itself through its history. The accumulation is not limited to the built environment but encompasses cultures and ways of life. Sensitive contemporary design can be accommodated and inserted into the city in a way that does not ignore the accumulative nature of the city’s identity.
CES: Estimated 1 LU for AIA Members
Speaker
Hoanh Tran, Design Principal, HTAP Architects
Moderator: Linh Nguyen, MPP student, Fulbright University Vietnam
Hoanh Tran is a Vietnamese American architect who studied architecture at Columbia University in New York City, Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, and RMIT Melbourne.
He lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City.
Hoanh’s practice includes designing, teaching, researching and writing.
Hoanh founded HTA Architects in 2004. The name was changed to HTAP Architects when Archie Pizzini joined the office. Both partners design all projects from concept through construction documentation. HTAP projects range from small scale boutique galleries to larger scale resorts.
Hoanh is currently a visiting lecturer at the Vietnam German University teaching core design studios. Hoanh was a thesis advisor at the Architecture University in Ho Chi Minh City in 2008 and has taught graduate-level architectural and urban design studios at RMIT Melbourne during 2013 to 2016. He was a member of the Advisory Committee for RMIT Master of Urban Design Program.
Hoanh’s researches focus mainly on cities. He is fascinated with the contemporary responses to the superdense urban context. He views cites as accumulating strata where design can intervene in the process of deleting, adding and weaving. Hoanh gives lectures about design and cities and preservation. He writes columns and articles for various journals and websites.
Moderator: Linh Nguyen is formerly a reporter for the Vietnamese service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. She was born and raised in Buon Ma Thuot, Daklak but was briefly educated in New Zealand and the United States. She is finishing her master’s degree in Public Policy at Fulbright University Vietnam.
