My Son Sanctuary
Cluster of mortarless red-brick Cham temple towers, sealed with tree resin and rebuilt by generations of restorers.
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This guide to My Son Sanctuary near Hoi An starts with a Cham mortarless building technique from some sixteen centuries ago, bricks packed with tree resin instead of cement, carved directly by the masons who laid them. It follows the temples through war, cratering, and jungle burial, into the sixteen-year restoration led by Polish architect Kazimierz Kwiatkowski, known as Kazik, and the crew who worked beside him clearing leftover ordnance. Listen for how a building method with no written instructions got passed down anyway, brick by brick.
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