He has been Senior Architect to the Sagrada Fam'lia Basilica Foundation since 1979 pioneering distant collaboration with his colleagues based on-site in Barcelona. He is currently the Founding Director of the RMIT University's Design Research Institute (DRI), established in 2008 to collaborate across the entire university design community ranging from hard-core sciences and technology to applied arts. In 2001 he founded RMIT University's state-of-the-art Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) in Melbourne Australia, established as a holistic transdisciplinary spatial design research environment.