Zeina Koreitem is founding partner, with John May, of MILLIØNS, a Los Angeles-based design practice. She is Design Faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Previously she held positions as Design Critic in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and taught and at the University of Toronto and and University of Southern California’s School of Architecture.
Koreitem has previously worked in the offices of Dominique Perrault Architecture in Paris, and Pritzker winners RCR Arquitectes in Olot, Spain. She holds a BArch from the American University of Beirut, where she received the AREEN Project Award of Excellence in Architecture, and the Outstanding Creative Achievement Award; an MArch II from the University of Toronto; and an MDes in Design Computation from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), where she received the Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology.
MILLIØNS’ recent work includes completed and ongoing projects in California, New York, Boston, Germany and Beirut. Recently selected as the winner of an international competition to reimagine the west wing of I.M. Pei’s Everson Museum, in Syracuse, NY. MILLIØNS’ experimental work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at Friedman Benda Gallery, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, The Architecture + Design Museum of Los Angeles, and Jai & Jai Los Angeles, among others. Their essays have appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, e-flux, Flaunt magazine, I.D., a+t, and in a catalog of their work on experimental collective living, New Massings for New Masses: Collectivity After Orthography (MIT, 2015).
