Rounded Edges: Modernism and Architectural Dialogue in Ho Chi Minh City
Rounded Edges: Modernism and Architectural Dialogue in Ho Chi Minh City
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圆边：胡志明市的现代主义与建筑对话
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10.4000/abe.3630
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2017
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H. Hahn
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H. Hahn
人们普遍认为，与河内相比，胡志明市没有同质风格的建筑。本文试图将胡志明市的建筑遗产确立为一个重要的遗产，通过论证这个城市实际上拥有大量具有凝聚力的、设计精良的现代主义风格的建筑。这里强调的是这些现代主义建筑的一个独特特征：圆形、弯曲的角落在密集的城市中心反复出现。作者认为，这些建于20世纪20年代到70年代的建筑为胡志明市中心提供了独特的、有凝聚力的、引人注目的特征，它们构成了现代主义建筑的伟大组合之一。本文旨在重新定位胡志明市在现代主义世界地图上的位置，通过强调城市建筑演变的内在动力，超越殖民-后殖民分裂，并强调形式的演变，尽管历史上发生了基于事件的断裂，但仍揭示了连续性。金边的现代主义弧形建筑的显著存在，以及它们与胡志明市的相似之处，表明区域交通也发挥了至关重要的作用。
It is widely considered that there is no critical mass of architecture in a homogeneous style in Ho Chi Minh City, in contrast to Hanoi. This essay seeks to establish Ho Chi Minh City’s architectural heritage as a significant one, by arguing that the city does actually possess a critical mass of cohesive, remarkably well-designed buildings in modernist styles. Highlighted here is a unique feature of these modernist buildings: rounded, curved corners as a recurring motif in a dense urban center. The author argues that such buildings, dating from the 1920s through the 1970s, have provided the center of Ho Chi Minh City unique, cohesive, and striking characteristics and that they form one of the great ensembles of modernist architecture anywhere. This essay aims to re-locate the place of Ho Chi Minh City on the world map of the circulation of modernism, by emphasizing the internal dynamic of the city’s architectural evolution that transcends the colonial-postcolonial divide, and highlighting the evolution of forms revealing a continuity in spite of event-based ruptures in history. The significant presence of modernist buildings with curved corners in Phnom Penh, and their similarities to those of Ho Chi Minh City, suggest that regional circulation also played a crucial role.