He has held a number of academic posts & now is exploring methods of teaching outside of conventional academic institutions. He was a unit master at the Univ. of Cambridge before being a unit master on the Architectural Association program ‘Design & Make' where students spend 16 months designing & constructing buildings at the AA’s Hooke Park campus. Taylor founded ‘Studio in the Woods’ in 2005 where students test ideas through making at 1:1 & is now part of the global free unit network. Invisible Studio won a National RIBA Award for the Tree Management Centre at Westonbirt Arboretum which also won 3 regional RIBA Awards & was shortlisted for the Stephen Lawrence Prize & was constructed entirely with material grown on site. He lives in a self built house that won the AJ Small Project Award & works out of a studio constructed with no drawings using only local amateur labour.