Adam Miller
Faculty, School of Architecture
Adam Miller is a designer and teacher, and director of Pneu Stars Design Group. Prior to joining UC Berkeley as a lecturer, Adam was the Muschenheim Fellow at University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (2021–2023) and from 2019 to 2021 Adam was the two-time recipient of the Race & Gender in the Built Environment Fellowship at UT Austin’s School of Architecture.
Adam is founder and director of Pneu Stars, a collaborative design group that produces stage designs and installations since 2014. Pneu Stars has design-built numerous large-scale installations for music festivals in Oakland, working with clients including John Waters, Iggy Pop, Devo, and more.
Adam’s research, writing, and installation practices investigate the relationship between taste, power, and identity through the lens of the queer body with applications to architecture. Adam’s interests lie in renegotiating the legacies of Modern architecture and its taste culture by using queer theory, feminist theory, biopolitics, and aesthetics to develop design that takes marginalized perspectives into account. Adam is interested in the reflexive interaction between how the built environment shapes our visions of ourselves, and how through design we engender the environment with our own identities and value systems.
Adam holds an MArch from UC Berkeley, and BAs from Cornell University. Adam has taught architecture studios and theory at University of Michigan and UT Austin, and he has been an invited critic at various institutions.
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