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Adrienne Economos-Miller in her studio.

Adrienne Economos-Miller

  • Assistant Professor, Architecture

Education

Master of Architecture, Yale University, 2020

Biography

Adrienne Economos-Miller is a builder and teacher working with trash, ruins, and other obscene matters. Her writing brings together labor histories, cultural and literary studies, and embodied action in order to explore methods of practice that exist outside of architecture’s historically constructed design/construction binary. She was the 2022–23 Schidlowski Emerging Faculty Fellow at Kent State University with her exhibition “Refuse//Repose.” Her writing has been published inJAE,Disc,andPerspectaand her work has been featured in exhibitions at A83, Craft Contemporary, and the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee working on creating collective labor structures for architecture.

Recent & Selected Works

Wooden platform altar built among trees in a forest, surrounded by leaves and tagged objects.
Interior installation of wood panels, sculptural fragments, and mannequins arranged like a workshop.
Small wooden structure installation placed in an alley against a brick wall with large windows.
Wood panel with a drawing of clustered house-like forms, mounted within a rough wooden frame.
Hand holding a cigarette over a metal ashtray and objects, casting strong shadows on a white surface.