A mestizo architecture in the Vietnam under the colonization of the French. The indochine style

Abstract

During French colony in Vietnam, the French had immersed and modified their technical and decorational standards to suit the Vietnamese traditional architecture and tropical climate. This evidently proved that was not suitable, and it had a reversed impact by the Vietnamese one. During that time, there was a cultural and architectural influence between Asia and Europe. Hernest Hébrard was the developer, architect, and planner of Indochinese architecture, had been credited for the parallel influence. There were buildings that were designed and built based on the Indochinese architecture, have been preserved and treated as architectural heritage by local government in Ha Noi. This article does not only discuss the interaction of French and Vietnamese architecture reflecting by the Indochinese one, but also analyzes the developing process, the compatibility, and the developmental initiation.