Dr. Adam Miller

Biography

Adam Miller is a designer, teacher, and director of Pneu Stars Design Group. Prior to joining UC Berkeley as a lecturer, Adam was a Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning from 2021 to 2023. A two-time recipient of the Race & Gender Built Environment Fellowship at UT Austin’s School of Architecture, Adam founded and directs Pneu Stars, a collaborative design group that produces stage designs and installations since 2014. Pneu Stars has realized numerous large-scale installations for music festivals in Oakland, working with clients such as John Waters, Iggy Pop, and Devo. Adam's research, writing, and installation practices explore the relationship between taste, power, and identity through a queer lens in architectural applications. His interests include renegotiating the legacies of modern architecture and taste culture using queer theory and feminist theory to develop designs that account for marginalized perspectives. Adam is also interested in how reflexive interactions within built environments shape the visions of designs that engage identities and value systems. He holds a Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University, and has taught architecture studios and theory at the University of Michigan and UT Austin, in addition to being an invited critic at various institutions.

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