Propaganda art on glassware at Saigon Kitsch, Ho Chi Minh City (page 206).
Joss sticks in front of a bamboo curtain.
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Photographs © 2007 Luca Invernizzi Tettoni
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Endpapers: Murals at Cao Dai Temple, Tay Ninh, representing celestial heavens (page 98).
High ogival vaults supported by columns separate the sitting room in the main part of the original Loan de Leo Foster House from the dining room and a small bedroom (page 86).
View over Truc Back Lake, Hanoi, at dusk, taken from the top of the Sofitel Metropole Hanoi (page 116).
CONTENTS
| VERNACULAR STYLES | 10 | THE LAND OF THE RISING DRAGON |
| 14 | THE CITADEL AT HUE | |
| 24 | ROYAL MAUSOLEUMS OF HUE | |
| 34 | GARDEN HOUSES OF HUE | |
| 42 | CHINESE HOUSES OF HOI AN | |
| 54 | A CHINESE SHOPHOUSE IN HANOI | |
| 56 | VILLAGE HOUSES | |
| 62 | TWO HILLTRIBE HOUSES | |
| 66 | DINH COMMUNITY HALLS | |
| 72 | VALERIE GREGORI MCKENZIE VIETNAMESE HOUSE | |
| 76 | SUZANNELECHT HOUSE | |
| 82 | KHANH STUDIO HOUSE | |
| 86 | LOAN DE LEO FOSTER HOUSE | |
| 92 | BUDDHIST TEMPLES | |
| 94 | TAOIST TEMPLES | |
| 98 | CAO DAI TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE | |
| THE FRENCH LEGACY | 104 | RESHAPING THE LANDSCAPE |
| 112 | SYMBOLS OF FRENCH POWER | |
| 116 | SOFITEL METROPOLE HANOI | |
| 118 | TEMPLE CLUB | |
| 124 | EU AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE | |
| 128 | PSYCHEKENNET HOUSE | |
| 132 | VALERIE GREGORI MCKENZIE HOUSE | |
| 138 | CATHERINE DENOUAL & DOAN DAI TU HOUSE | |
| 142 | HIEN HOUSE | |
| MODERN TIMES | 148 | ECHOES OF THE PAST |
| 152 |
VALERIE
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