NGUYEN CHI TAM
Born in Vietnam, Nguyen came to France as a political refugee in 1976, and has been living in Paris ever since. In 1996 he graduated as an architect and won the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation prize. In 1996 he began working at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop.In 2000, Nguyen Chi Tam joined hands with Charlotte Julliard to create theskyisbeautiful, in response to the condition of our planet. Nguyen hopes to create a natural link between nature and humanity through this project. In his view, by such careful actions in the city, architecture becomes useful to people and by similar actions in the countryside, nature can also be preserved.
Over the last ten years he has worked on many projects, including the EMI Music France headquarters in Paris and the urban project of “Cité Internationale de Lyon” with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and the Bamboo School in Nha Trang, Vietnam with theskyisbeautiful. The Bamboo School won the 2004 Environmental Award from the Cityscape Architectural Review, and has been mentioned in numerous publications
