He is a Licensed Architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism at the Faculty of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney. He received a PhD in Architecture from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan and a Laurea degree in Architecture (BArch + MArch) from the University IUAV of Venice, Italy. Dr. Pernice has extensive research and teaching experience in Japan, South Korea, the Middle East and China, and his interests and activities, which lay in the nexus between architecture and urbanism, range from practice to theory, criticism and history of architecture, urban design and city planning.