The annuaI I+MArch Field Trip of the academic year 2016 took place in Chiang Mai. It brought our current students and lecturers to explore, understand, and question the city’s historical and future development, in which architecture has been playing important roles. Our three-day trip was divided into three parts under the specific themes of Chiang Mai Kao (Old Chiang Mai), Chiang Mai Mai (New Chiang Mai), and Chiang Mai Now (Contemporary Chiang Mai) respectively. The first day started with the visit to Chiang Mai Historical Center and Lanna Folklife Museum, whose state-of-the art exhibitions gave us understanding about how the society and city of Chiang Mai was traditionally formed. The exploration of the old city district in that afternoon gave us first-hand experience of the historical architecture and the city, and what the current situations of ‘tradition’ were. The second day started with a Modern Architecture Tour at Warorot Market and Chiang Mai University, whose Modernist architecture gave us opportunity to compare the architectural ‘modernisation’ in the 1960s with the ongoing one. The visit to an internationally-acclaimed artist Navin Rawanchaikul’s studiOK in the afternoon provided us a chance to discuss the place of history and memory in the city’s development with a prominent guest from a different field. The last day of the trip brought us to see how emerging architects like all(zone), whose founder is our very own Assistant Professor Rachaporn Choochuey, and Somdoon Architect creatively interpreted the relationship between the tradition and the modern into the spaces and forms of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum and The Association of Siamese Architects Lanna Center respectively.