A ‘critical travel and work’ model of travel demands an immersive, engaged, multi-sensory, approach to study and travel. A rapidly developing city provides a collapse of time and future urban conditions upon a physical location

allowing for intense investigation of the possible future of both global urban conditions and specific manifestations of place. This paper describes the University of Houston College of Architecture’s 2013 Pan Asia study abroad

program sited in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.