Adrienne Economos-Miller

Education

M.Arch, Yale University
B.S.Arch, Ohio State University

Biography

Adrienne Economos-Miller is a teacher and builder who uses the trash pile as a tool to deconstruct architecture as an exploitative labor form. Her creative work explores the possibilities that heterogeneous materiality brings to alternative labor organizations. She is interested in the deconstruction and reconstruction of the built environment toward new ends. Her writing brings together labor histories, cultural and literary studies, and embodied practice in order to explore methods of practice that exist outside of architecture’s historically constructed design/construction binary.

Adrienne is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). She was the 2022–23 Schidlowski Emerging Faculty Fellow at Kent State University with the exhibition, “Refuse//Repose.” Her writing is published in Disc, Perspecta, Pidgin, and Architect’s Newspaper and her work has been shown in exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Craft Contemporary, and A83.