In the different phases of his career, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer (Iran 1967-69); a sheep farmer, wood cutter, and furniture maker in Oxford County, Maine (1970-78); a Principal of Moore/Weinrich Architects (1977-93); an older doctoral student (Texas A&M 1993-97); and the Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin (1997-2018).

As a UT faculty member, he taught design and interdisciplinary courses related to the philosophy, history, and application of sustainable technology. He was Co-director of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Design, a Co-founder of the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development, and a Co-founder of the Austin Community Design and Development Center. He was a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a Loeb Fellow of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the recipient of an Individual Scholar Award from the National Science Foundation. In 2014, he was awarded the EDRA Award for Place Research and was a Finalist for the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He was the author of many articles, over fifty book chapters, and seven books on the topic of sustainable architecture and urbanism.

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