The two American partners who set up Ho Chi Minh City-based architecturefirm HTA + pizzini have exhibited photo and text-based works andinstallations that highlight the concepts driving their architecturalpractice and reveal their creative responses to the city.
Theexhibition entitled "In Situ" will run until May 2 at Galerie Quynh,which was designed by the pair, Hoanh Tran and Archie Pizzini, in 2013on the second floor of a building with rich social and historicallayering at 151/3 Dong Khoi Street, District 1.
According to arelease from the gallery, some architects demolish existing sites tocreate something completely new to signify a modern city, while othersattempt to preserve the history of the site by refusing to modify it.
Tran and Pizzini deliberately choose a middle way, building upon the rich layers of the history of a site.
Transaid: "A city is enriched by accumulations over generations...Accumulation incorporates destruction, but keeps enough fabric to retaincultural identity, while obliteration erases everything, including thecultural fabric."
"In Situ" is expected to be a testament to the architects' ethical position favouring sustainability and resilience.
Tranoriginally studied to be a chemist and worked in the conservationdepartment of the National Gallery of Art in the US capital WashingtonDC.
He received a master's degree in historic preservation fromColumbia University in New York in 1990 and a master's in architecturefrom SCI-Arc in Los Angeles in 1995.
He lived and worked in NewYork and Hong Kong before returning to HCM City in 1996 where he workedas an architect prior to establishing HTA + pizzini.
Pizzinistudied architecture and fine arts as an undergraduate at RiceUniversity in Houston, Texas, where he got a BFA degree in painting.
He received his master's in architecture from University of Houston in 1989.
He practised architecture in the US for 15 years before coming to Vietnam.
The two are currently Ph.D candidates in architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.-VNA
Theexhibition entitled "In Situ" will run until May 2 at Galerie Quynh,which was designed by the pair, Hoanh Tran and Archie Pizzini, in 2013on the second floor of a building with rich social and historicallayering at 151/3 Dong Khoi Street, District 1.
According to arelease from the gallery, some architects demolish existing sites tocreate something completely new to signify a modern city, while othersattempt to preserve the history of the site by refusing to modify it.
Tran and Pizzini deliberately choose a middle way, building upon the rich layers of the history of a site.
Transaid: "A city is enriched by accumulations over generations...Accumulation incorporates destruction, but keeps enough fabric to retaincultural identity, while obliteration erases everything, including thecultural fabric."
"In Situ" is expected to be a testament to the architects' ethical position favouring sustainability and resilience.
Tranoriginally studied to be a chemist and worked in the conservationdepartment of the National Gallery of Art in the US capital WashingtonDC.
He received a master's degree in historic preservation fromColumbia University in New York in 1990 and a master's in architecturefrom SCI-Arc in Los Angeles in 1995.
He lived and worked in NewYork and Hong Kong before returning to HCM City in 1996 where he workedas an architect prior to establishing HTA + pizzini.
Pizzinistudied architecture and fine arts as an undergraduate at RiceUniversity in Houston, Texas, where he got a BFA degree in painting.
He received his master's in architecture from University of Houston in 1989.
He practised architecture in the US for 15 years before coming to Vietnam.
The two are currently Ph.D candidates in architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.-VNA
