Ian Miley

Design Critic in Architecture

Ian Miley is a Design Critic in Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He teaches studios and seminars at the GSD, Rhode Island School of Design, and Northeastern University. He is also design principal at the design-build company Type Five, Inc. and a founding partner of the speculative architecture practice i.e. studio. Among others, Miley has previously practiced with the offices of Barkow Leibinger, Höweler + Yoon, and Certain Measures.

Miley studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he received a Master of Architecture I AP with Distinction, was awarded the James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize and the AIA Henry Adams Medal, and held the 2020-2021 Irving Innovation Fellowship. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with High Honors from the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design where he was awarded the departmental citation.