Launching memoirs of architect Hoang Huu Phe, who participated in planning Trung Hoa-Nhan Chinh urban area

As an architect, Hoang Huu Phe has participated in planning and designing many projects, among them the Central Circus in Hanoi, Trung Hoa – Nhan Chinh new urban area, North An Khanh (Splendora), Cai Gia – Cat Ba tourist town and many other projects, especially high-rise buildings in Hanoi and other cities in the country. Recently, he released his memoir ‘Water still flows at the foot of Mu Ke Bridge’ with the hope that his children and grandchildren understand the war and cherish today’s peaceful moments, and the book is also valuable. history of the country’s architecture industry in particular.
Memoirs Water still flows at the foot of Mu Ke bridge is the growing up story of a small town boy who lived through the fierce destructive war in zone 4 and his years as an international student, discovering knowledge and new things from other cultural traditions, through through a strange and random assemblage of places, from the bombed-out landmarks of Quang Binh to characteristic urban scenes, in Dong Hoi, Hanoi, Kiev, Bangkok and London respectively.

As a matter of fate, the small town boy, who feels most comfortable living among the nameless trees in the tropical forests along the Truong Son mountain range, has won a literary translation with his book. Restlessness , eventually became inseparable from the main work of his life, which was theoretical and applied research in the field of urban structure. With his own efforts, he was awarded a prestigious award The Donald Robertson Memorial Prize 2000 of the world’s leading journal of urban studies, Urban Studies, together with Professor Patrick Wakely (UCL), for their work on Position-Quality theory (SQTO). Architect Hoang Huu Phe In Vietnam, he participated in planning and designing many projects, among them the Central Circus in Hanoi, the Can Tho University, the headquarters of the Institute of Petroleum, the new urban areas Trung Hoa – Nhan Main, North An Khanh (Splendora), Cai Gia – Cat Ba tourist urban area, and many other works, especially high-rise buildings in Hanoi and other cities in the country. The stories that were discussed hotly in Hanoi for a while, such as the idea of ​​​​walking street, building an apartment building in Trung Hoa Nhan Chinh urban area, expanding Hanoi … are all related to him – an architect with many experience of the big outside world and a desire to do more for cities in Vietnam through contributions to urban structure theory. Hoang Huu Phe was born in 1954, is an architect and planner. He studied respectively at the Faculty of Architecture, Kiev National University of Civil Engineering, the Department of Residential Planning at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and the Department of Development Planning, University of London (UCL). He received his PhD in Urban Planning in 1998 in London and has published internationally in the fields of architecture, residential placement, urban structure, real estate, urban renewal and policy. House.