Assistant Professor John J. May gave a lecture at Princeton University as part of its School of Architecture's Conversation Series on October 18. His lecture, titled "Architecture and Statistical Life," was followed by a conversation with Princeton Professor Dr. Forrest Meggers.

John J. May is Assistant Professor in the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, and principal of millionsofmovingparts, a Los Angeles-based design practice. He holds a master's degree in architecture from Harvard and a doctorate in environmental studies from UCLA. He is founding director — with Zeynep Celik Alexander — of The Instruments Project, an ongoing investigation into the philosophical-historical conditions surrounding contemporary design technologies. May taught previously at UCLA and SCI-Arc, and was named the 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Professor in Architecture at Rice University.

For more information on the lecture and Princeton's Conversation Series, visit the School of Architecture's website.