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Mel Schenck is an American architect, researcher, and writer living in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and focusing on Vietnamese architecture. His five decades of experience managing design and construction around the world inform his outlook on architecture and life. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree at Montana State University in 1970 and a Master of Architecture degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1981.

Mel began his career managing construction contracts to Vietnamese constructors for the U.S. Navy in Saigon and southern Vietnam in 1971/1972, where he became enamored with the Vietnamese mid-century modern architecture. After several years managing architectural projects in America, Mel managed the operations of KM ...more

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Southern Vietnamese Modernist Architecture: Mid-Century Vernacular Modernism
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Alexandre Garel (Photographs)

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