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Thomas Deckker is both a teacher of architecture and involved in the principles of architectural education and curriculum development. He is currently an Visiting Researcher of the Brazil Institute, King's College London and a Fellow of the Geddes Institute for Urban Research, The University of Dundee. He was also on the research oversight committee of the Public Spaces and the Role of the Architect" research project in the School of Architecture at the University of Westminster.

Thomas Deckker was invited to become a Visiting Fellow in the School of Architecture at the The University of Dundee. He developed an MSc course in Sustainable Urban Design, jointly ran an MArch Unit (with Charles Rattray), ran a 4th Year Design Research Unit on landscape and lectured and supervised dissertations in History and Theory in the 3rd Year Humanities course. Thomas Deckker ran Degree Unit G at the University of East London between 1991 and 1999. During this time he evolved a teaching programme which focussed on developing the students' direct experiences of architecture.

A video for The Atelier Project in Teaching demonstrates the ethos and practices of the Unit from both the teachers' and students' viewpoints.

Thomas Deckker based his conference paper on architectural education at the First International Seminar on the Teaching of the Built Environment [SIEPAC], University of São Paulo, Brazil on his work in Degree Unit G.

Thomas Deckker also ran regular workshops in the School of Architecture at Universität Liechtenstein from 1996 to 2003.

Thomas Deckker is proud to have been an integral part of three important initiatives in architectural education:

• as the leader, with Christoph Langhof, of the first visit by a European school of architecture to the Moscow Institute of Architecture at a critical junction in its history - the end of the Soviet Union and the first opening to Europe
• as the originator and leader of the first visit by a European school of architecture to the Chinati Foundation in Marfa. Thomas Deckker published an analysis of the importance of land art to architecture in 'Land Art: City Architecture' in Issues [University of East London 2000].
• as the leader, with Elden Croy and Graeme Little, and in conjunction with the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, of the first post-siege visit by a European school of architecture to Sarajevo. Thomas Deckker published a photographic study "Sarajevo: post siege" by Elden Croy and Graeme Little in Issues [University of East London 2000].