His academic research and teaching activities are primarily concerned with how specific cultural, contextual, and constructional demands influence architectural design. Additionally, much of his current work reflects critical responses that investigate the role and appropriateness of various techniques of precision as either generative or refining modes of application. He is a registered architect in Texas, California, and Nebraska. His firm, Vincent Snyder, Architect, was established in Austin in 1995. Vincent received a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Master of Architecture at Princeton University.