He is Director of PRASADA,[2] a centre bringing together research and practice in South Asian art and architecture.
He has tried to bring to light a meaningful way of looking at what at first sight seem bewilderingly complex structures.
The work has revealed striking structural homologies between architecture and other branches of culture, and shown how, within a number of regional traditions, forms evolve in a characteristic way, notwithstanding conspicuous artistic inventiveness.
Drawings have played an important role in his research, not only for explanation but also as a means of analysis.
He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe (1965–71)[1] and Trinity College, Cambridge.