Medical University, HCM City
Ngo Viet Thu was the architect of the Presidential Palace as well as the Pedagogical University in Hue, about which I posted in July. He was born in 1926 near Hue where, in addition to the Pedagogical University, he designed a church which you can see below. For a timeline of his life and works check out: http://www.geocities.com/namsonngoviet/NgoVietThu.html
Ngo Viet Thu was born and raised in Vietnam and studied at Truong Cao Dang in Da Lat and then the Academie des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1955 he won the prestigious Rome Competition (the Academie's highest architectural prize) and in 1962 became the first Asian architect to be made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. His close association with the Southern regime led to a year-long term in a "re-education" camp. In his later years, the political climate seemed to have changed enough that he was able to return to work. In his final years he regained his good public standing and was involved in a number of important and highly visible design projects.
Central Market, Da Lat, a collaborative project
Church, Hue
Pedagogical University, Hue
Ngo Viet Thu (1926-2000)
Right now, I'm trying to figure out what his involvement was with the agrovilles program, which was a massive forced relocation project in South Vietnam in the 1960's (which later evolved into the strategic hamlet program). The agrovilles were ostensibly modernization projects: they would concentrate populations to aid economic development and increase access to public services. These concentrated populations would be situated along major highways, increasing their connection to political and economic centers. In actuality they resembled massive prisons, with gates and guards present to "protect them" from the influence of the Viet Cong. They were also built with corvee labor, then once the families were re-located and forced to re-construct their homes, they were forced to pay the government for their new land (which incidentally was expropriated by the government).
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