A Scientist’s Walk Through Hanoi Old Quarter Houses

Among these, the recent work by Vuong et al. (2019) adds a unique view of the architectural features of Hanoi’s ancient townhouses as these features are viewed as dependent and independent variables. The study titled ‘Cultural evolution in Vietnam’s early 20th century: A Bayesian network analysis of Hanoi Franco-Chinese house designs’ aims to find traces of cultural evolution in the early 20th century in Vietnam and highlight the most notable elements that affect the Vietnamese people’s perception of cultural evolutions. The most striking feature of this study is the methodology employed to analyze and interpret the data. This study is the first among research conducted on the architecture of Hanoi ancient townhouses to employ the Bayesian network analysis method.