He earned his BArch degree from Chulalongkorn University, a Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design (MSAUD) degree from Columbia University, and a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His doctoral dissertation focused on the 19th-century transformation of architecture and architectural practice in Siam. He is an architectural historian specializing in the architecture and urbanism of Southeast Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries and teaches courses on the history of Thai architecture, urbanism in Bangkok, and Southeast Asian architecture. He has published widely on historic buildings and sites in Thailand both in English and in Thai.