A little diversion from Vietnam... I am pleased to see today that the French architect Jean Nouvel has been named the Pritzker Laureate in Architecture for 2008. This prize is the equivalent to the Nobel prizes applied to architecture. He... Read more →
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Tet Parties
My Tết holidays this year were enjoyed in Dắk Lắk Province at the home of my Vietnamese friend's parents, introduced in this previous posting. A subsequent posting presented their home as a typical rural Dak Lak house. Since the Tết... Read more →
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