studio anettai

studio anettai is a Ho Chi Minh City-based architecture and 3D visualisation practice founded by architect Takahito Yamada, with Nobuhiro Inudoh as partner architect. Its name comes from the Japanese word for 'subtropical', signalling the climate and cultural setting in which much of the office's work is grounded. Founded in 2019, the Japanese-Vietnamese team works across housing, hospitality, workplaces, lodging and adaptive reuse.

The practice studies ordinary buildings, local materials and tropical ways of living amid rapid urbanisation. Peeling, selective demolition, lightweight construction and the continued use of existing fabric often become spatial tools. Its involvement also extends beyond conventional design delivery: at Hostel anettai the team participated in design, construction and operation, while visualisation is used elsewhere as a practical medium for collaboration across languages and locations. Architecture is approached as an ongoing engagement with real conditions rather than the production of an isolated form.

Pizza 4P's Thao Dien was designed by Takahito Yamada, Nobuhiro Inudoh, Tu Nguyen and Hirose Tsuchiya, with support from Do Thanh My Tam, Moe Watanabe and Oceane Raffestin. for Cities led experience design; KhaViet Construction delivered the works; Thien Sinh Farm, Lepidoptera Research, Lon Xon and OHQUAO contributed farming, ecosystem research, local research and research production. This broad authorship carries regeneration from a written ambition into planting, material reuse, ecological observation and long-term operation.