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Kyle Miller
Associate Professor, Associate Dean

M.Arch, University of California, Los Angeles; B.S. Architecture, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning


Kyle Miller is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture, Co-Founder of Possible Mediums, and Fellow (’19) of MacDowell. His design research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and Syracuse University, and has been included in the AIA Emerging Professionals Exhibition and shown at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Yale School of Architecture. In addition to co-authoring Possible Mediums, Miller’s writing has been published in Log, Monu, Constructs, Pidgin, Project, Offramp, PLAT, Room One Thousand, and the Journal for Architectural Education. Miller was Architecture Program Director at Syracuse University in Florence (2016-2018), previously taught at the University of Kentucky College of Design (2009-2013), and worked professionally in Milwaukee, Los Angeles, and for Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos with UNStudio in Amsterdam. Miller is a graduate of the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the University of California Los Angeles Department of Architecture and Urban Design, where he earned his professional degree and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal and Certificate.

Exhibitions

  • Miller, Kyle. “The Plan is the Generator” Possible Mediums Exhibition, SCI-Arc Library Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, February 2019
  • Miller, Kyle. “Everything Else,” Architecture is Everything curated by G. Bombaci, M. Costanzo, L. Galofaro, and D. Sacconi, CAMPO, Rome, Italy. September 2018
  • Miller, Kyle. “The Wreck of the Circus Train,” The Drawing Show curated by Dora Epstein Jones, Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut. February 2018-March 2018
  • Miller, Kyle. “The Plan is the Generator” Inscriptions, curated by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts. January 2018-March 2018
  • Miller, Kyle. “Corinthian Wall,” Architecture Exhibition, curated by Anthony Morey and Ryan Martinez, A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, California. June 2017
  • Miller, Kyle. “Another Villa,” School of Architecture Faculty Exhibition, Slocum Hall Gallery, Syracuse University, New York. May 2017
  • Miller, Kyle. “The Wreck of the Circus Train,” The Drawing Show curated by Dora Epstein Jones, A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, California. October 2016-January 2017
  • Miller, Kyle. “Do Not Disturb,” A One-Night Stand for Art & Architecture,  Holiday Lodge Motel, Los Angeles, California. May 2016
  • Miller, Kyle. “Elements, Again,” DRAWN,  Perloff Hall Gallery, Los Angeles, California. April 2015-June 2015
  • Miller, Kyle. “Fifteen Buildings,” Possible Mediums Exhibition, Syracuse University Fisher Center, New York, New York, November 2014
  • Miller, Kyle. “Fifteen Buildings,” Possible Mediums Exhibition, Taubman College Liberty Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, January/February 2014
  • Miller, Kyle. “Changing the Face,” 2013 AIA Center for Emerging Professionals Exhibition, AIA Headquarters, Washington D.C., March/April 2013
  • Miller, Kyle. “Thick Skin,” 2013 AIA Center for Emerging Professionals Exhibition, AIA Headquarters, Washington D.C., March/April 2013
  • Miller, Kyle. “Pushkinsky Cinema,” RUMBLE UCLA Alumni Exhibition, Perloff Hall Gallery, Los Angeles, California. June 2012
  • Miller, Kyle. “ACADIA@ACSA Digital Aptitudes | Synthetic Ecologies,” Boston Park Plaza, ACSA 100th Annual Meeting: Digital Aptitudes, Boston, March 2012

Grants and Awards

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

  • Individual Grant, $7,500, Spring 2018 to support Possible Mediums w/ Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, & Adam Fure
  • Organizational Grant, $15,000, Fall 2013 to support Possible Mediums w/ Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, & Adam Fure

Syracuse University

  • Internal Grant Program, Seed Grant, $5,000, Spring 2019 to support Building Practice w/ Molly Hunker
  • Internal Grant Program, Small Programs Grant, $7,500, Fall 2015 to support Possible Mediums

Syracuse University School of Architecture

  • Faculty Research Grant, $4,950, Spring 2019, to support Design Theory with Joseph Godlewski
  • Faculty Research Grant, $2,000, Spring 2017, to support Making an Entrance
  • Faculty Research Grant, $3,000, Spring 2015, to support Before Theory

Teaching Awards

  • Meredith Teaching Recognition Award (Syracuse University Meredith Professors), Syracuse University, March 2016
  • Creative Achievement Award, ACSA Annual Design Awards, March 2015
  • Teacher of the Year, University of Kentucky College of Design School of Architecture, April 2013
  • Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal, University of Kentucky Alpha Chi Chapter, April 2010

Research Fellowships & Artist Residencies

  • MacDowell, Project: “Other Ways to Make an Entrance,” Thomas and Barbara Putnam Fellow, Peterborough, New Hampshire, March 2019-April 2019

Lectures and Papers

Invited Lectures

  • University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor, MI. July 2021
  • Texas A&M University, College of Architecture, College Station, TX. April 2019
  • University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, London, England. February 2019
  • McGill University, School of Architecture, Montreal, Quebec. February 2019 
  • Université Laval with Kelly Bair, October 2018, Quebec City, Quebec. February 2019
  • California College of the Arts with Kristy Balliet and Dora Epstein Jones, San Francisco, CA, January 2019
  • Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA. November 2018
  • Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt, Germany. April 2018
  • California State University, Florence, Italy. April 2018
  • Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Ithaca, NY. April 2016
  • University of California – Los Angeles, Architecture and Urban Design, Los Angeles, CA. July 2013
  • University of Colorado – Denver, College of Architecture and Planning, Denver, CO. November 2012
  • Kent State University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent, OH. October 2012

Gallery & Library Talks

  • Graham Foundation with Zoe Ryan, Chicago, IL, April 2019, for Possible Mediums
  • University of Michigan with John McMorrough, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2019, for Possible Mediums
  • Architectural Association with Sean Yendrys, London, England, March 2019, for Possible Mediums
  • SCI-Arc, Los Angeles with Marcelyn Gow, Los Angeles, CA February 2019, for Possible Mediums
  • Syracuse University with Britt Eversole, Syracuse, NY, January 2019, for Possible Mediums
  • Syracuse University, Fisher Center with David Erdman, NY, New York, October 2018, for Possible Mediums
  • Syracuse Architecture in Florence, Florence, Italy, February 2017, for Present Tense
  • Syracuse University, Fisher Center, New York, NY, November 2014, for Possible Mediums

Publications

Books

  • Hunker, Molly and Kyle Miller. Building Practice. Forthcoming 2022             
  • Bair, Kelly, Kristy Balliet, Adam Fure, and Kyle Miller. Possible Mediums. Barcelona, Actar, 2018

Essays in Journals and Magazines

  • Miller, Kyle. “On Singles and Soundtracks,” Log, Issue 52 Summer, 2021, pp. 115-120
  • Miller, Kyle. “Deadpan (in) Architecture,” Log, Issue 51 Winter/Spring, 2021, pp. 113-118
  • Miller, Kyle. “Review: Adjacencies,” Constructs, Spring 2019, 2019, p. 6
  • Miller, Kyle. “On Triangles in Squares and the Color of Air,” Monu, #27 Small Urbanism, 2017, pp. 48-53
  • Miller, Kyle. “The Plan is the Generator,” Room One Thousand, Issue Five, 2017, pp. 219-224
  • Miller, Kyle. “The Thirteenth Villa,” Journal of Architectural Education, 70:1, 2016, pp. 90-95                                                                                             
  • Miller, Kyle. “Difference, Again,” Pidgin, Issue 20, 2015, pp. 40-47
  • Miller, Kyle. “Nine Lies,” Offramp, #09, Southern California Institute of Architecture, 2015, Web
  • Miller, Kyle. “Figure as Device: On Township of Domestic Parts,Project Journal, Issue Four, 2015, pp. 30-33
  • Miller, Kyle. “Organized Crime,” PLAT 1.0_ IMPOSTOR, 2011, pp. 67-73

Chapters or Essays in Books

  • Miller, Kyle. “Afterword.” The London Workshops, edited by Anne Munly and Davide Sacconi, Syracuse University School of Architecture, 2021, pp. 91-93
  • Miller, Kyle. “Performing Architecture.” The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture, edited by Mitra Kanaani, Routledge Press, 2019, pp. 492-501
  • Miller, Kyle. “Before Theory.” This Thing Called Theory, edited by Teresa Stoppani, Giorgio Ponzo, and George Themistokleous, Routledge Press, 2016, pp. 45-54

Conference Proceedings

  • Miller, Kyle. “A Desire to Invent New Mediums (A Hatred of Boredom),” ACSA 107th Annual Meeting: Black Box, Pittsburgh, March 2019
  • Miller, Kyle. “Before Theory,” 12th Int’l AHRA Conference: This Thing Called Theory, Leeds Beckett, November 2015
  • Miller, Kyle. “History for the Future,” National Conference on the Beginning Design Studio 31, Univ. of Houston, February 2015
  • Miller, Kyle. “Translations: Digital & Physical Interchanges,” 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers, Oslo, Norway, May 2013
  • Miller, Kyle. “Thick Skin: Adaptive Reuse in Contemporary Design,” National Conference on the Beginning Design Studio 28, Penn State, March 2012
  • Miller, Kyle. “Organized Crime: The Role of Ornament in Contemporary Architecture,” ACADIA Regional Conference, Parametricism, University of Nebraska, March 2011

Administration and Service

Administration

  • Associate Dean, Syracuse University School of Architecture, 2022-Pres.
  • Thesis Director, Syracuse University School of Architecture, 2021-2022
  • Architecture Program Director, Syracuse University in Florence, 2016-2018

Community Service

  • Everson Museum Café International Design Competition; Competition Director with Michael Speaks, 2019