What's On

Dear friends and colleagues,

please see below for information on upcoming tours, Sunday 29 Jan 06 and Sunday 26 Feb 06. Email details for booking places are below.

Also, if you have any interest in a weekend trip to Kampong Som which would include looking at some great buildings, please let us know.

Our next tour will return to three very different house-types: modest ‘social-housing’ on a Khmer model; a middle-income family house on an adapted European model; and a spatially-indulgent house ideal for high-society parties.

1) The well-known '100 Houses' development was designed by Vann Molyvann and commissioned in the 1965 by the National Bank of Cambodia for its staff; these originally identical houses were a reinterpretation of the traditional Khmer house and only a few remain unchanged. 

2) The designer of the family house is unknown, but the house works delightfully through its a rich blend of materials, form, light and air. 

3) The doctor's house, designed we are told by Vann Molyvann, is dominated by its exuberant, three-storey high entrance hall and is wonderfully sculptural on the outside.

We will again visit three remarkable, 1960s education campuses on the Russian Boulevard (the airport road) and be able to compare and contrast each:

1) The Institute of Technology of Cambodia, by Soviet designers (elegant, functional, abstract).

2) The Institute of Foreign Languages by Vann Molyvann (expressive, dynamic, metaphorical).

3) The Royal University of Phnom Penh by Leroy and Mondet (courageous, derivative, flawed). 

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There will be morning and afternoon tours on both days, guided by architecture students Suon Ratana and Sim Sitho.

Morning tours: Start at 8.30am, return by around 11.45pm

Afternoon tours: Start at 2.30pm, return by around 5.45pm

Transport by private bus. The tours are available in English and Khmer.

English speaking: $8. Khmer speaking: $1.

As usual, booking is essential. Children over 12 are welcome.

Please reply via email with your request for places; please don't forget to include names and mobile telephone numbers and which tour you would like, otherwise we can't accept the booking. We will email you back with joining details and contact numbers for the guides.

Hope to see you soon.

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