John May

May received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a PhD in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to his graduate studies, May completed an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Studio Art at The College of William & Mary.

In 2012, with his partner Zeina Koreitem, May founded MILLIØNS, a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary design practice with completed projects in California, New York, Boston, France, Taipei and Beirut. The practice’s experimental work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, and their essays on architecture, culture, and digital aesthetics have appeared in Harvard Design Magazine, Wallpaper, and e-flux, among others. In 2019, MILLIØNS was selected as the winner of a two-stage, invited international competition to reimagine the east wing of I.M. Pei’s Everson Museum of Art, in Syracuse, NY.

May teaches at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he serves as Associate Professor of Architecture. Prior to joining Harvard, May was appointed as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UCLA, SCI-Arc, and the University of Toronto. In 2012, he was named National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Professor in Architecture at the Rice University School of Architecture, and in 2020 was the Kenneth D. Sargent Visiting Professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture.