ARCHITECTURE
Hi, I'm Milo.
I am a student at the Architectural Institute in Prague. Everyone just calls it ARCHIP, though.
I hail from the United States, and am about halfway through my bachelor's degree in architecture here in Czechia. I love it here!
SPRING 2025
Finding ←→ Hiding*
*2025 Golden Roubík winner (best ARCHIP Studio project)
In my fourth semester, I created a home for the Memory of Nations institution (Paměť Národa) in Prague.
My project was based on the rumblings of secret history that are felt (but not seen) through the ages.
Studio leaders Elan Fessler and Zuzanna Drahotová challenged us to design program combinations and sequences before choosing a site, which freed me to create first the representative spaces; experiential progressions through history, before constraining them to a site and context.
I chose a site that allowed the programs to play; to hide and be found. I then carefully arranged the building's architectural announcements and interactions with the above bridge, surrounding fort wall, and pedestrian tunnels.
The resulting structure was an underground history museum of Czech history, citizen memory archive, and event space.
It is a museum of secrecy, driven by historical narrative and experiential progression. Once found, one realizes how much has been hiding.
FALL 2024
Der Himmel Uber Prag
In my third semester at the Architectural Institute in Prague, I had the pleasure of working under Winy Maas of MVRDV in his SkyCity studio.
This was a very transformational experience where I learned how to better work in a large team on a single, multi-pronged, very conceptual project.
The challenge of creating a City of the Sky was exciting, and taught me to let go of my previous inhibitions concerning design and idea conception.
I served as multiple team leads, head graphics coordinator, and a final presenter. Showing a large team project in a portfolio is always hard, but I feel I was involved every step away and am proud to present the conceptual work we produced working together, led by Winy.
Attached is the final team presentation. Warning: its 316 slides!
Below are highlighted portions of our team's work, that I had the pleasure of leading.
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Fall 2025 Final Team Presentation
You may see this and ask yourself,
"Milo, if this is a 316 slide presentation put together by 20 people, why are you putting the whole thing in your portfolio?"
To which I say, "Because I designed it! And I am especially interested in the graphics of presenting architecture."
SPRING 2024
Albertov, Prague
The focus of the spring semester in Kurilla - Prokop studio was to focus on finding ways to concretely measure architectural success in any scale. We focused our efforts on (our) Albertov Campus in New Town in Prague, CZ. Collaborating throughout the semester, we analyzed our campus and then analyzed the ways in which we tried to improve it. The aim of all proposals this semester was for each to be the best possible response to detected issues on campus; to be able to prove that it really was the best solution.
With data from myself and colleagues, I compiled public collaborative analysis maps of Albertov. Data was divvied into maps pertaining to different urban ministries which informed our projects.
I developed three proposals: a new pedestrian tunnel leading to the east side of campus, a complete axis renewal (collaboration with my colleague Amy Ryan), and an alternate utopian urban history.
WINTER 2023
Beginnings*
*2023 first-year-student Golden Roubík winner (best AD studio project)
My first semester studying at the Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP) was spent in a studio led by Lukaš Kurilla and Šimon Prokop with other first-year students. A focus was placed on designing structures of randomly assigned typology. Each student's projects differed. I first designed a small secluded studio building, an open-air elementary school, and finally a community maker-space nestled in the facade of an abandoned stadium.
