Daniels Assistant Professor John May delivered invited lectures on his recent work this past week.

On Wednesday April 2nd, he gave a lecture titled "Why Write?," at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, which was followed by a public conversation with GSD architecture faculty member Sanford Kwinter.

On Friday April 4th, he presented recent work at the MIT School of Architecture, as part of a group symposium titled "Does Drawing Have a Future?," which included presentations by Sylvia Lavin, Jason Payne, William O'Brien Jr. and Andrew Atwood.

May is principal of MILLIØNS, a Los Angeles-based design practice, and founding director — with Zeynep Celik Alexander — of The Instruments Project, an independent research initiative into the philosophical-historical conditions surrounding contemporary design technologies. May previously taught design studios and seminars at UCLA and SCI-Arc. In 2012, he served as a National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Professor in Architecture at Rice University, and in 2013 was a visiting professor in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.