I am an architect, urban designer and historian of global modernism with a focus on the visual culture, architecture and urbanism of South Asia. My work looks at ‘small places’ - ordinary buildings, ecologies, local actors, building practices and materials - through a postcolonial eco-critical lens. I explore how such places - environments that occupy a grey space between urban/rural, high/low, expert/non-expert and national/regional and occupy much of the planet - can be narrated as part of a global history. The ethnographic object at the center of my current investigations is the ‘house-in-the-garden’ situated in the urban-rural continuums and monsoon ecologies of the Malabar coast of Kerala in Southwest India.