His PID work consists of a number of student design/build projects in Mississippi, Kansas and New Orleans, where he and his students worked with the Porch Cultural Organization following Hurricane Katrina. The work has won design awards from the AIA, AIAS and the ACSA. The work has been published in the Journal of Architectural Education, Batture: Amnesiascope, Cityscape: a Journal of Policy Development and Research and has been presented in numerous scholarly presentations. Nils is a graduate of Kansas State University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design and has taught at the Boston Architectural Center, Mississippi State University and the University of Kansas.