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In 2015, I wrote an essay, nay, a love letter to Sài Gòn. The essay discusses what first inculcated in me a love for buildings and urban design: Neoclassical architecture. The style is almost synonymous with French Colonial architecture in Indochina, and as the name suggests, it boasts a sense of history and civility, beyond an imposing atmosphere inherent in the authoritarian nature of the Colonist government. I still remember being 15 and standing in front of the Opera House one evening; I knew I was going to be an architect right after that definitive moment.