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Vo Trong Nghia Architects Team
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Founded in 2006, Vo Trong Nghia Architects is a leading architectural practice in Vietnam with offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. More than 60 international architects, engineers and staff work closely on cultural, residential and commercial projects worldwide.
By experimenting with light, wind and water, and by using natural and local materials, Vo Trong Nghia Architects employ a contemporary design vocabulary to explore new ways to create green architecture for the 21st century, whilst maintaining the essence of Asian architectural expression.
Vo Trong Nghia Architects are in strong collaboration with Wind and Water House JSC, a construction company specializing in green buildings construction, to realize designs of high quality in Vietnam..
Biorahphy
Vo Trong Nghia / Founding partner
Vo Trong Nghia was born in 1976 in Quang Binh province, Central Vietnam. He moved to Japan in 1996 as a Japanese government’s scholarship student and started studying architecture. After graduation from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2002, he joined the University of Tokyo’s Landscape and Civic Design Laboratory under the Department of Civil Engineering. There he studied under Prof. Hiroshi Naito. He received his master’s degree in 2004. His research thesis discussed the utilization of wind in Hoi An, Vietnam and was received president award of the Tokyo University. After 10 years of studying and living in Japan he then decided to return to Vietnam.
In 2006, he started his firm, Vo Trong Nghia Architects in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The early projects were characterized by bamboo structures. From the first bamboo project, Wind and Water Café, he developed his bamboo construction team through his bamboo buildings. The design approach combined with bamboo treatment and construction brought him global awards and recognition.
Several years later, he also started green projects which utilize not only landscape plants, but started to design green façades and roofs which work as a bio-skin for buildings. His aim is to rehabilitate Vietnamese urban condition with greenery in order to reconnect humans back to nature. “House for Trees” is a project that is now a series of projects working to bring more and more greenery to Vietnamese cities and aiming to solve the problem of urban pollution.
Nghia received international prizes and honors including but not limited to; AR House award, ARCASIA gold medal and Building of the Year, FuturArc Green leadership Award. He also was selected as one of 2014s Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum. Besides running his architectural practice, Nghia has continued to be involved in architecture at a grass roots level by teaching at the Singapore University of Technology & Design in 2015. Currently, he is a visiting professor of Hiroshima Institute of Technology.
Nghia is a registered architect in Vietnam.
Vo Trong Nghia Architects Team
Philosophy
Founded in 2006, Vo Trong Nghia Architects is a leading architectural practice in Vietnam with offices in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. More than 60 international architects, engineers and staff work closely on cultural, residential and commercial projects worldwide.
By experimenting with light, wind and water, and by using natural and local materials, Vo Trong Nghia Architects employ a contemporary design vocabulary to explore new ways to create green architecture for the 21st century, whilst maintaining the essence of Asian architectural expression.
Vo Trong Nghia Architects are in strong collaboration with Wind and Water House JSC, a construction company specializing in green buildings construction, to realize designs of high quality in Vietnam..
Biorahphy
Vo Trong Nghia / Founding partner
Vo Trong Nghia was born in 1976 in Quang Binh province, Central Vietnam. He moved to Japan in 1996 as a Japanese government’s scholarship student and started studying architecture. After graduation from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2002, he joined the University of Tokyo’s Landscape and Civic Design Laboratory under the Department of Civil Engineering. There he studied under Prof. Hiroshi Naito. He received his master’s degree in 2004. His research thesis discussed the utilization of wind in Hoi An, Vietnam and was received president award of the Tokyo University. After 10 years of studying and living in Japan he then decided to return to Vietnam.
In 2006, he started his firm, Vo Trong Nghia Architects in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The early projects were characterized by bamboo structures. From the first bamboo project, Wind and Water Café, he developed his bamboo construction team through his bamboo buildings. The design approach combined with bamboo treatment and construction brought him global awards and recognition.
Several years later, he also started green projects which utilize not only landscape plants, but started to design green façades and roofs which work as a bio-skin for buildings. His aim is to rehabilitate Vietnamese urban condition with greenery in order to reconnect humans back to nature. “House for Trees” is a project that is now a series of projects working to bring more and more greenery to Vietnamese cities and aiming to solve the problem of urban pollution.
Nghia received international prizes and honors including but not limited to; AR House award, ARCASIA gold medal and Building of the Year, FuturArc Green leadership Award. He also was selected as one of 2014s Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum. Besides running his architectural practice, Nghia has continued to be involved in architecture at a grass roots level by teaching at the Singapore University of Technology & Design in 2015. Currently, he is a visiting professor of Hiroshima Institute of Technology.
Nghia is a registered architect in Vietnam.
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