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Upon completing his architecture studies in Japan, Vo Trong Nghia returned to Vietnam and established his office in 2006. He is known for developing sustainable design by integrating inexpensive, local materials and traditional skills with modern aesthetics and methodologies, and many projects are characterised by bamboo structures. Nghia’s green works utilise landscaping and green facades and roofs, with the goal of rehabilitating greenery in local urban conditions, reconnecting humans with nature. Includes the architect’s statement, “What Can Architects Do in an Age When Nature is Being Destroyed by Human Acquisitiveness?”, plus eighteen exemplary works.

Statement: What Can Architects Do in an Age When Nature Is Being Destroyed by Human Acquisitiveness? | Vo Trong Nghia
Essay: The Meaning of Creating Architecture in Vietnam | Pham Thuy Loan
 
Wind and Water Cafe
Wind and Water Bar
Bamboo Wing
Dailai Conference Hall
Kontum Indochine Cafe
Son La Restaurant
Diamond Island Community Center
Sen Village Community Center
Naman Retreat
Bamboo Forest

Column: The Steel of the 21st Century: Bamboo | Takashi Niwa
 
S-House
 
Essay: Of Regionalism Past and a Sustainable Future: A Perspective on Vo Trong Nghia Architects | Nirmal Kishnani
 
Green Renovation 2
Stacking Green
House for Trees
Farming Kindergarten
Stone House
Binh Thanh House
Nanoco – Panasonic Lighting Showroom
 
Essay Series:
Engineering bamboo – a green alternative under basic research Part 3
Professorship of Architecture and Construction Dirk E. Hebel (Dirk E. Hebel, Felix Heisel, Alireza Javadian, Mateusz Wielopolski, Simon Lee, Philipp Müller, Karsten Schlesier)