A core member of the Kyoto-based office FOBA from 1995�2005, his publications include the monograph FOBA: Buildings (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005). He is a correspondent and editorial advisor for the Dutch publications Archis/Volume and Mark, architecture critic for the Tokyo-based Artscape website, and was previously on the editorial board of the Architectural Institute of Japan Journal. He is on the faculty of Kyoto Seika University, a Lecturer at Kyoto University, a Visiting Fellow at the RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Lab, and a frequent guest speaker and juror at universities throughout the world.