Title: Brief history of Vietnam architecture
Headings: Brief history of Vietnam architecture
Brief history of Vietnam architecture
Vietnam architecture is a composition of both Asian and European style. Its history can be divided into highlight stages, namely ancient architecture, colonial architecture, new architecture, and contemporary architecture.
Vietnam Ancient Architecture
Dalat train station in Vietnam architecture - Source: Image from Wikimedia Commons
Colonial Architecture
Hanoi Opera House - Source: Image from Flickr
New Architecture
Contemporary Architecture
Modern buidings in Vietnam - Source: Image from Wikimedia Commons

Content: Vietnam Ancient Architecture
Vietnam ancient architecture mostly used timber frame structures like traditional wooden Vietnamese houses combined with other supporting materials such as bricks, stones, tiles, soils, straws, and bamboos...There really is no difference or division on the texture of different work categories in this architectural style. Based on characteristics as well as the nature and structures of these materials, Vietnam does not really retain any massive monuments as in other countries. Throughout the history, ancient architecture in Vietnam has not much changed as in Europe. Vietnam architecture can sort out categories by: Purpose: palace, religion architecture (pagodas, temples...), cultural architecture (steles...), and communal houses...
Dalat train station in Vietnam architecture - Source: Image from Wikimedia Commons
Building materials: they also maintain less permanent characters with the exception of public works: bricks, stones, timber (hardwood)... Most of them brought available local materials into play such as leaves, thatches, bamboos, carved woods, baked or unbaked clays, muds and straws...
Structure: wooden frames, mortises and tenons (no use of nails), purlin wood trusses, rafters, canopy pillars depending on geographical conditions could change the floor structure, yet there exist no floors or multiple floors as other countries.