Tim is a former Editor-in-Chief at the Canadian Centre of Architecture and editor of Blueprint. He has written about architecture and design for a range of magazines including Architectural Review, Icon, Wired and New Statesman. He has also lectured at Birkbeck and Manchester University on the design history of the Olympic movement.

In 2014, he and his colleague Kieran Gardner set up Machine Books, an imprint and consultancy dedicated to new publishing technologies in the fields of architecture, design and urbanism.