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).
Portrait by Bryson Malone