Wallis Miller is the Charles P. Graves Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Kentucky. She is currently writing a book, Architecture on Display: Exhibitions, Museums and the Emergence of Modernism in Germany, on the formative practices of collection and exhibition in nineteenth and early twentieth century architecture. Miller received fellowships from Canadian Centre for Architecture, the American Academy in Berlin and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts. In 2008, Miller was a Visiting Scholar at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She earned a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture at Princeton University and a M.Arch. from Columbia University. Wallis Miller is a guest professor in the research project, Place and Displacement: Exhibiting Architecture (funded by the Norwegian Research Council from 2011-14).

Selected Work:

“Schinkel’s Museums: Collecting and displaying architecture in Berlin, 1844-1933,” in Museums and Biographies, ed. Kate Hill (London: Boydell and Brewer, 2011).

“Fitting in: Architecture in the Art Gallery,” in Robert Gutman, Architecture from the Outside In, (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009).

“Cultures of Display: Exhibiting Architecture in Berlin, 1880-1931,” in Tim Anstey, Katja Grillner and Rolf Hughes, eds., Architecture and Authorship (London: Black Dog Press, 2007), pp.98-107.

“Circling the Square,” in Andres Lepik, ed., O.M. Ungers. Kosmos der Architektur (Berlin: Hatje/Neue National-Galerie, 2006), pp.97-107.

“Neues Bauen and the Exhibition of Modern German Identity,” in Wolf Tegethoff and Jacek Purchla eds. Nation, Style, Modernity (Munich/Cracow: Zentral Institut für Kunstgeschichte/International Cultural Centre, 2006), pp.223-236.

“Mies and Exhibitions,” research essay in Mies in Berlin, Terence Riley and Barry Bergdoll, eds. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2001), pp.338-349. (German Edition: München: Prestel, 2001).