He has practiced in London, Bath, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, acquiring broad digital architectural design experience. From 2009 to 2014, Mara was technical editor of The Architects’ Journal and editor of AJ Specification. He was also the editor and main contributor to Architects Working Details 8 (AJ, 2014) and the technical volume of Zaha Hadid Architects: Heydar Aliyev Center (Lars Müller, 2014). In August 2014, he returned to architectural practice, joining GRID Architects in London.