For ten years, I was lucky to work with the Huỳnh Tấn Phát Foundation here in Ho Chi Minh City to lead seminars featuring the professional language of architecture, design, and planning. I had to resign for health reasons a year ago, although my health has now improved. A leader of the Foundation interviewed me last week for a series of website articles about my ideas of Vietnamese modernist architecture and my current work on holistic architecture.

The article below, produced by the Huỳnh Tấn Phát Foundation, presents the first in a series of articles resulting from the interview.