Senior lecturer at the USC School of Architecture; producer of Iconic Wilshire Boulevard; longtime editor and reporter for Chicago Public Radio and NPR, including the host of Hello Beautiful, a radio show about architecture and urbanism that ended in 2008; former Annenberg Fellow at USC where he studied the specialized journalism of architecture
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