Christopher Miller, Ph.D.

About:

Christopher Miller returned to architectural practice, after more than twenty years in academia, to work with a like-minded team, at Glavé & Holmes Architecture, Richmond, to make places of human flourishing.
Always central to Miller’s research and teaching has been the architectural treatise of a Renaissance humanist.  Alberti’s notion of architecture as good, true, and beautiful civic eloquence has its seed in Aristotle’s pedagogy of practical philosophy and was cultivated by Roman practitioner and theorist of political oratory, Cicero.  His career-long interest in civic architecture as virtuous action, tuned to circumstance, is finding shape in Bella Città (Beautiful City). 

Miller has a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from the University of Notre Dame and a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History Renaissance Architectural Theory from the University of Virginia. In this Gordon program, Miller’s aim is that we will deepen the tacit intuition of our schools as the rich soil yielding the fruitfulness of place.