He studied philosophy, cultural studies, and German literature at Berkeley, Swarthmore, the Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet (Freiburg), and the Humboldt University (Berlin), before receiving his MPhil and PhD in the history and theory of architecture from Columbia University. His first book Otto Neurath: The Language of the Global Polis, was published in 2008 by NAi (2011, in paperback edition). He has curated exhibitions at Stroom den Haag, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the AIA Center for Architecture, and the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. From 2008 to2010, he was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. In 2012, he was a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. He is currently writing a book on the standardization of standardization.