Aahana Miller

Aahana completed her Master of Architecture at The University of Pennsylvania with a Minor in Historic Preservation. This complemented her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design, which focused on adaptive re-use. At PennDesign she was the Director for Penn Student Design, liaising with graphic designers to produce creative materials for various marketing projects. She was also the Graphics and PR Chair of PennDesign’s Women in Architecture group, an organization that aims to increase the incidence and visibility of women in the architectural profession. At RISD, she participated in a study abroad program to Kyoto Seika University in Japan for four months, where her study of architecture was integrated with a practical housing-rehabilitation project for Tsunami victims. In her last year, she visited Costa Rica where she conceptualized, designed and built a prototype for a sustainable classroom for rural schools. She also designed and built furniture for a homeless