CO-NX is a critical architecture practice that operates at the intersection of theory and practice, using different media and formats. The practice aims to engage with the contemporary conditions of our time, particularly those related to architectural transformation, experimental preservation and often situated contexts.
CO-NX believes architecture as an open and collaborative process with buildings as part of larger systems. To interface with these systems, the practice utilizes framework that consists of design, research and teaching.
Emphasizing working with different stakeholders with different expertise, CO-NX celebrates existing building environment as main subject of interest and aims to activate their latent potentials.
BIOGRAPHY
Duc Le is an architect and researcher at CO-NX. A graduate of the Manchester School of Architecture and the Architectural Association (AA), Duc has worked extensively on architectural projects in the UK, Eastern Europe, and Vietnam, with a focus on heritage, adaptive reuse, and creative preservation. Duc has served as an associate lecturer and design unit master at the University of Greenwich (2021-2023) and Oxford Brookes University (2019-2020), and as a course tutor at the Architectural Association Visiting School (2016). He is also a regular visiting critic at various architecture schools in the UK and Vietnam.
Duc engages with architecture in both practice and theory, having previously contributed to the Plakat research platform and advised the Hanoi Ad Hoc initiative. He also initiated the Grids of Vietnamese Modernism, a project focusing on the historiography and critique of Vietnamese architecture in the 20th century. Duc is currently a PhD candidate under the Practice Research Symposium Programme at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University and a founding member of Gian Giua collective.