He holds a B.Arch with honors from Victoria University and an M.Eng from Kyoto University. He is currently an Associate Professor at Kyoto Seika University, a Visiting Fellow at the RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Lab, editorial advisor for the Dutch publications Volume and Mark, and was previously on the editorial board of the Architectural Institute of Japan journal. He is author of FOBA: Buildings (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005), After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008), and Kyoto Houses (Periplus Publishing, forthcoming).