He is the author of the acclaimed books Last Futures (Verso, 2016), a cultural history of the radical architecture of the 1960s and 70s, and The Architecture of Failure (Zero, 2012), which tells the story of nineteenth-century iron and glass architecture and its long influence on modernist culture. He is currently working on Nincompoopolis, about the architecture of Boris Johnson’s London, to be published by Repeater in 2017.

In practice, most recently he worked at Lynch Architects from 2014–16, delivering two large scale buildings in Victoria, London, as well as a public artwork on Westminster City Hall, in collaboration with artist Rut Blees Luxemburg.