John J. May is partner, with Zeina Koreitem, in MILLIØNS, a Los Angeles-based design practice with projects in Beirut and California. 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 he served as visiting professor in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. May is a founding co-director (with Zeynep Çelik Alexander) of the Instruments Project, an independent, multi-year research initiative that examines the philosophical and historical dimensions of contemporary design technologies.