MILLIØNS is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary architecture practice, whose work spans various scales and media formats, including buildings, interiors, exhibitions, furniture, books, and environments. Founded by Zeina Koreitem and John May, the practice has realized projects in the US and internationally, including speculative and completed works in California, New York, Boston, Beirut, France, Italy and Taiwan, among others. MILLIØNS frequently collaborates with artists, curators, and museums around the world to develop site- and culturally-specific projects meant to resonate with the multi-cultural publics that visit and experience them.

In 2019, MILLIØNS was selected as the winner of an international competition to reimagine the East wing of I.M.Pei's Everson Museum of Art, in Syracuse, NY, completed in 2024. Most recently, Koreitem and May were named by AD Magazine as Ones to Watch and by Wallpaper* as one of the “USA 400: The People Shaping America’s Creative Landscape in 2024 & 2025 consecutively.

Design Philosophy: 

MILLIØNS’ approach insists on a parallel commitment to research—cultural, historical, geographic, technological, etc.—which runs alongside, and informs every design project. This approach demands a collaborative and intensive commitment to the ideas and possibilities that impact each commission, leading to novel and at times radical proposals that embrace architecture’s commitment to the public. MILLIØNS’ work seeks to design beautiful spaces, unusual objects, and experimental materials, yet we are not interested in architecture or design as an isolated pursuit. MILLIØNS work is committed to social and environmental equity, by asking questions about the impacts of materiality and space on contemporary domestic and social life. 

MILLIØNS’ work has been published widely, in features, essays and in a catalog of their work on experimental collective living, New Massings for New Masses: Collectivity After Orthography (MIT SA+P Press 2015).

Zeina Koreitem, founding partner 

Zeina Koreitem is a licensed Lebanese architect and Design Faculty at SCI-Arc. She holds a B.Arch from the American University of Beirut, where she received the AREEN Project Award of Excellence in Architecture, and the Outstanding Creative Achievement Award; an M.Arch 2 from the University of Toronto; and an M.Des from Harvard GSD, where she received the Daniel L. Schodek Award for Technology. She has notably worked in the offices of Dominique Perrault Architecture in Paris, and RCR Arquitectes in Olot, Spain. Koreitem brings a trans-national and multi-cultural experience and design sensibility to the practice. She has lived in several countries and speaks French, English, Arabic and Spanish.

John May, founding partner

John May is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he previously served as director of the Master in Design Studies post-professional program, and Area Head of the History and Philosophy of Design + Media research group. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Visual Art from the College of William and Mary, a Master of Architecture (AP) with Distinction from Harvard GSD, and a doctorate in Geography and Environmental Studies from UCLA. He is the author of Signal. Image. Architecture. (Everything is Already an Image) (Columbia, 2019). In addition to his experience in design build and construction management, May brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the practice. His research and writing is situated at the intersection of philosophy, technology and the politics of environmentalism.

Clients:

The Everson Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
The Moody Center For the Arts, Rice University, Houston
Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
Friedman Benda Gallery, NYC
Chamber Projects, NYC/Buenos Aires
La Triennale Di Milano, Milano
Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Jack Erwin Retail, NYC
Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC
MIT Keller Architecture Gallery, Cambridge
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge
AlSerkal Foundation, Dubai

Collaborators:

Laura Coombs
Studio Sean Canty
322A
Salmaan Craig
Chamber Projects
Office Hours/Esther Choi
Metahaven/Daniel van der Velden & Vinca Kruk
Jonathan Olivares/Knoll
Justin Morin
4Spaces, Zurich
Alexis Mark
Groupsports/Sarah Naim & Annie Render
Clocks/Mahfuz & Chloe Sultan
Siwar Krai(y)tem

©MILLIØNS 2025