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 is broadly situated in the planetary environmental turn in postcolonial studies with its concern for the everyday and the global. My work looks at ‘small places’ - ordinary buildings, ecologies, local actors, building practices, materials and place-specfic ontologies - through an eco-critical lens. I explore how everyday environments that occupy a grey space between urban/rural, high/low, expert/non-expert, and national/regional can be narrated as part of a global history of modernism, environment, and political economy of development.