He received a PhD in the history of architecture from the University of Sydney, Australia. His first book, Modernism of Austerity: Formation and Display of Ideal Home in India, 1920–1960 will be published by the University of Pittsburg Press in 2017. He is currently coediting a volume entitled Routledge Handbook of Architecture and Social Engagement. His current research focuses on the involvement of Euro-American architects in the development of modern architecture in postcolonial Pakistan (1947–71). He received the Aga Khan Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 2015 and has served as juror for the National Endowment of the Humanities.