In 2012 he completed building a summer house in Deer Isle, Maine, and he is currently building The Proud Green Home of Cincinnati, a LEED Platinum Passive House. He has published articles on walking and the built environment in Landscape Journal, Places, and Journal of Architectural Education. He is the author of two books about the aesthetics of architecture from a phenomenological perspective, The Architect’s Tour: Notes for the Design Traveler (Culicidae Architectural Press, 2014) and the forthcoming “A House and its Atmosphere.”