Born in 1926 in Ream, Kampot province, he was among the first Cambodians to pass the Baccalaureate exam at the Sisowath high school. From 1947 to 1956, he studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (National School of Fine Arts) in Paris and worked in Ferace as an architect. Back in Cambodia in 1956, he was appointed chief architect for state buildings. In 1962, he was appointed to the ministry of civil engineering and telecommunications. In 1965, as the first dean of the Royal University of Fine Arts, he transformed a traditional small school of arts into the a university worthy of the name. After several important ministry positions from 1967 to 1970, he left Cambodia in 1971. From 1972 to 1979, he lived in Switzerland where he went on practicing and teaching architecture. He came back to Cambodia in 1991 and was successively advisor to the Cambodian government minister of culture, and president of APSARA authority. In 1996 he was elected a member of the French Academy of Architecture. In addition to his political and teaching activities, he made great architectural achievement, designing projects for almost eighty buildings in Cambodia.
We can mention Independent Monument, the Teacher Training Collage (now the Institute of Foreign languages of the Royal University of Phnom Penh), the Chaktomuk conference hall, and in Chamkar Mon, the State Palace as well as offies, houses and reception hall.
Chaktomuk Conference Hall, 1961
Independence Monument, 1962
Sangkum Reastr Niyum Exhibition Hall (phase 2), 1964
Indoor Stadium / National Sports Complex, 1964
Outdoor Stadium / National Sports Complex, 1964
Swimming Complex/ National Sports Complex, 1964
Teacher Training College (Central Building and Library), 1971
Teacher Training College (Teaching Lab Building), 1971
Central Market Extension, 2011
Central Market Extension, 2011
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