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FOREWORD FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Our dear Readers,
The Journal of Architecture would like to give an overview of the issue namely “Vietnam landscape architecture – Development and integration”. There are discussions of the traditional aspect of landscape, with some viewpoints and concepts of the past generations in the history of the nation; taking advantage of local characteristics, from the past to the present and looking forward to the future. Specific designs should be analysed, compared and combined with illustrations that will explore the unsolved problem to a greater extent. Realistic issues analysed and clarified from the perspective of landscape, especially in urban areas, will show us a sketchy picture, but quite comprehensive, when it comes to landscape architecture in detail. The achievements, the wrong, the good progress, the breakthroughs, etc. have all brought unexpected effects of landscape to the development. The real influences and effects of landscape on the modern city structure characterised with identity and its contributions to a sturdy acculturation of community culture, tourism development, etc. are also discussed.
We hope that this issue will provide you all with a new understanding of such a topic and a positive thought in the pandemic era with strict measures taken to prevent the proliferation of the disease, and especially when the joy and work may be temporarily put aside.
Our special thanks go to the Branch Association of Landscape Architecture and colleagues across the country for their contributions and support to this special issue!
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TRADITIONAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN VIETNAM: MAXIMISING RESPECT OF NATURE AND MINIMISING INTERFERENCE IN NATURAL TOPOGRAPHY
• Phan Dang Son
Landscape design, along with planning design, building design and interior design, is one of the main pillars of Architectural Design. For cities and towns, landscape design plays an even more important role, because it is a type of space that connects buildings, works of art and other elements to shape the city. In the past, when the country’s economy was still underdeveloped, this domain was not clearly defined or emphasised. But in fact, from the tradition of creating living and working environments with leisure activities, the Vietnamese people learned how to create landscape and considered it an essential (and evident) link between natural environment and the built environment. Therefore, today we have the values of ecology and humanity of landscape design. These factors help make our daily lives comfortable and ensure their health, happiness, well-being as well as safety with regard to the future generations. The continuation of the pathway in which landscape architecture is shaped should be regarded as a very important task for architects to fulfil and the community to think about, if we wish to establish a modern architecture with national identity.
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NATURAL LANDSCAPE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
• Nguyen Hoang Linh
The main task of landscape architecture is to contribute to the shaping of a landscape environment as a suitable living environment for people, in addition to an orientation towards a more rational use of natural resources and landscape, as well as the preservation or restoration of natural landscape that has been destroyed, damaged or negatively transformed while human beings are trying to make impacts on natural landscape to sustain their lives.
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VERNACULARITY – A NEVER-ENDING INSPIRATION IN LANDSCAPE DESIGN
• Le Tuan Long
Landscape architecture plays an important role and contributes significantly to the development of a country in its history. While World Landscape Architecture has established a very solid foundation for development with the formation of large and long-time Associations of Landscape Architects, such as ASLA (American Association of Landscape Architects) established in 1899 or, closer to Vietnam, TALA (Thai Association of Landscape Architects) founded in 1989. Today in Vietnam, Landscape Architecture is still considered a new professional domain across the wide spectrum of practising architecture. Under the pressure of urbanisation and the requirements of integration, Vietnam needs to quickly localise and develop landscape architecture by learning from and making use of the achievements that Landscape Architecture has accomplished worldwide, as well as by applying properly those theories and concepts to the reality in Vietnam. Landscape architecture in Vietnam started much later than other countries in the world – this is both an advantage and a risk of “losing oneself”.
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ECOLOGICALISATION AS A NEW MAINSTREAM IN URBAN DESIGN FOR PUBLIC PLACES
Nguyen Hai Van Hien & Nguyen Quang Minh
Public space can be regarded as a mirror reflecting the level of city management, urban design capacity and natural / economic / cultural / social characteristics of a specific area. There are many trends in planning and design of public places in the world. The most prominent of all are listed as follows: 1. Ecologicalisation, 2. Internationalisation, 3. Vernacularisation, 4. Technologicalisation, 5. Multi-functionalisation and 6. Flexibilisation. This article discusses the first trend which is now rapidly growing into a worldwide mainstream that manages to bridge the gap between man-made and natural environments caused by the uncontrollable urbanisation. Quality of life is not only physically measured with indoor facilities or climatic comfort, but also in rich bio-sphere and eco-balance. When applying in Vietnam, it is necessary to combine ecologicalisation and the other five trends with an appropriate proportion, depending on the conditions of the site, and developing such integration into solution packages to achieve expected results: the city will perform much better in terms of ecology.
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SPATIAL PLANNING AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN FOR RURAL HOUSES IN VIEW OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN DUONG LAM OLD VILLAGE
• Nguyen Hoai Thu
Duong Lam old village still preserves the traditional landscape of villages and communes in the Red River Delta with relics, old houses, village roads, rice fields, trees and so on. The values of landscape make this old village an attraction for tourists from Vietnam and abroad. Old houses have been renovated in terms of landscape to become an attractive tourist service area. However, in reality, people are still confused in renovating the space, leading to the loss of the values of traditional houses, and affecting the landscape of the village in a negative way. Through the study of the traditional housing structure and its transformation under the impact of tourism service activities, the author proposes some solutions to renovate the landscape of the houses in combination with tourism development without compromising the value of the old village.
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS IN VIETNAM – OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
• Pham Anh Tuan
Schools of Landscape Architecture across the country should focus on education and training of qualified landscape architects by introducing to the public their curricula, frameworks and reforms to meet the demand of the society for workforces and successful integration. The Departments of Landscape Architecture need to develop a plan and strategy to become Faculties of Landscape Architecture in order to enhance the position, capacity and scale of training based on domestic and international cooperation, apart from research and technology transfer in landscape architecture. It helps pave the way for planning, architecture, landscape and interior design Create a solid and complete position for the disciplines of Planning – Architecture – Landscape – Interior at university level. Workforce training in landscape architecture needs to link theory with practice through real-life projects and site visits. In addition, students should be given an opportunity to practise at studios and workshops in the course of their studies, so that they will be able to work and solve real-life problems, nurture their passions and taught with professional ethics, develop and strengthen skills, and pursue landscape architecture as a lifetime career.
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IMPROVING THE LU RIVERSIDE LANDSCAPE IN LINEAR PARK CONCEPT
• Pham Anh Tuan
• Nguyen Thi Minh Hanh
• Trinh Thuy Hien
• Vu Thao Nguyen
• Tran Kieu Oanh
• Dinh Thanh Tung
Student scientific research is an activity that means so much to students in their studies at universities. In addition to programme-based study subjects, scientific research does not only help students gain more in-depth knowledge about the research topic, but will also build a foundation of methodology, creative and critical thinking and skills to individual work and team work. It is equally important to encourage the students to be more self-confident when they practise architecture in the future. This article presents the results of a scientific research project undertaken by a group of students of excellence with English as the second language of instruction at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning (National University of Civil Engineering). Students conducted their research methodologically in proposing a solution that will improve the landscape along the Lu river in view of the linear park design concept, as an efficient approach for students to link theory with practice.
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