He teaches urban architecture and urban theory in the Portland program with emphasis on city building and the art of building. Prior, he has taught at the University of California in Berkeley in the ‘Building Process area of emphasis’, where he also directed the area. He has taught at the University of Applied Science (Fachhochschule) in Frankfurt, Germany, and he was involved in the Prince of Wales Urban Design Task Force Program (Berlin 96/Potsdam and Beirut/Sidon 97). He is also a founding member of the architectural organization ‘School of Seeing’. Most recently he was awarded the DAAD visiting professorship at the Technical University of Dresden. His main interest in research include, first, the question of quality and value in architecture and urban structure and, second, the question of process and processes which create quality in buildings and the urban fabric.