MICHAEL MILLER

Michael was trained at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and at Texas A&M University and holds professional degrees from both schools (MArch and BArch). He has taught architectural design at the Boston Architectural Center and has been a visiting design jurist at the University Of Miami School Of Architecture. He is a licensed in the states of Florida and Massachusetts.

Prior to opening his Key West office, Michael was associated with or worked for some of the world’s most renowned architectural offices, including: The Architect’s Collaborative (TAC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Yamasaki and Partners in Troy, Michigan; and Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK) in St. Louis, Missouri. With these firms he was involved in the design of airports, religious structures, hospitals, office buildings, and housing. He has been a design consultant to Pan Arab Consulting Engineers in Kuwait and Arabian Bechtel in Saudi Arabia.

Michael has won twenty two State of Florida awards for excellence in design in historic districts for new and historic houses, theaters, and churches, as well as design awards in partnership with others for Housing for the Elderly from the Massachusetts Department of Community Affairs and from the US Department of Energy for Solar Energy Residential Design. His work has also been featured on public television’s This Old House and he has served on Key West’s Historic Architectural Review Commission where he participated in the writing of the preservation guidelines for Key West’s historic district.

Senior Associate

Helen Colley is a painter and interior designer specializing in finishes and color, integral art, set and retail design. Noteworthy among her projects at Michael Miller Architects were interiors and set design for Public Television’s This Old House and MTV’s Real World series (both in Key West, Florida), and the interiors for the prize-winning Tropic Theater in Key West, Florida.

Before joining Michael Miller Architects, Helen was owner of Helen Colley Retail Consulting, where her clients included Coopers and Lybrand of New York, and Deloitte Touche and Fitch Richardson, Smith of Boston. Previously, she was Director of Visual Merchandising Studies at Retail Planning Associates in Columbus, Ohio. While there, her projects were worldwide and included Galleries Lafayette in Paris, Marks and Spencer in London, Grace Brothers in Sydney, and Harvard University’s The Coop, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.