His resume includes employment by the CIA and residence at Dai Bosatsu Zen Monastery. In 1981 he founded his own design-build firm, and in 1998 received his PhD in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. He has delivered lectures and workshops in over 20 countries. And he has been an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.