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Associate Professor of Architecture at Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Degrees: MIT School of Architecture and Planning PhD {History Theory and Criticism} and Urban Design Certificate {City Design and Development}; Cooper Union BArch.

Dissertation: "Cultural Construction of Jakarta: Design, Planning and Development in Jabotabek, 1980-1997."

Publications: “The Heterotopian Divide in Jakarta: Constructing Discourse, Constructing Space,” in _Heterotopia and the City: Urban Theory and the Transformations of Public Space_, eds. Lieven de Cauter & Michiel Dehaene {London: Routledge, 2008}, 275-87;

“Does Planning Culture Matter? Dutch and American Models in Indonesian Urban Transformations” in _Comparative Planning Cultures_, Bish Sanyal, ed. {New York: Routledge, 2005}, 165-92;

“Planning or Cultural Construction? Local and Global Forces in the Transformation of Jakarta” in _The Indonesian Town Revisited_, Peter J.M. Nas, ed. {Muenster, Germany: LIT Verlag, 2002}, 17-40;

“Orange County, Java: Hybridity, Social Dualism and an Imagined West” {co-authored with Eric Heikkila}, _Southern California and the World_, E. Heikkila and R. Pizarro, eds. {Westport: Praeger, 2002}, 195-220.

Other teaching: MIT, RISD.

Projects with: Pei, Cobb, Freed + Associates; Aga Khan Award for Architecture; Goody Clancy Associates; Rafael Vinoly.

Awards & Service: Fulbright Fellow; Architecture Boston Editorial Board; Forum Bangun Aceh Post-tsunami Village Planning Initiative.