Cool article and nice to learn more about the history in Asia. Giant bamboo is great to work with. Myself, an American, and an Argentinian guy build a guadua (word for giant bamboo in Colombia at least) gazebo/shelter as part of a work exchange in Colombia. Fishmouth joints for days, literally. I loved seeing other high rise buildings being built in the area with guadua scaffolding and framing (from what I recall, may be a mix of materials do not remember). There are a lot of academic research articles with giant bamboo building techniques but this is, of course, very geographic dependent.