Over this time he has been Founding Director of Pie architecture Ltd. a successful architecture/urban design/research practice in London and a senior urban designer/design advisor to the Mayor of London, as part of the team Design for London within the Greater London Authority (GLA). Michael is currently the director of PLACE, the Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland and is a Fellow of the Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture , undertaking a PhD by practice as part of the ADAPT-r programme. Michael has been teaching architecture for 7 years and currently leads a Masters architecture studio in Queens University Belfast.