What stories does the built environment reveal? Rather than evaluating it in terms of costs, style movements, taste, can it instead expose our emotions, our values, our inner dialogues? 

In agreement with his interest and experience in multidisciplinary design, Ariel founded am wrks as a think tank for exploring design narratives across multiple scales and disciplines with the goal of recalling personal and collective conversations be they sober or playful. Ariel’s work has been featured in NYCXDesign among others.

Ariel Millan is based in New York City and was raised between South West Colombia and the American Midwest. As a mechanism to understand the contrasts, overlaps and contradictions found in his upbringing and identity, Ariel approaches the environment through a lens of empathy and curiosity allowing this to influence his work. 

A graduate from Parsons School of Design, Ariel Millan has trained as an architect and has experience in aviation, transportation and residential building typologies. 

Aside from pursuing personal projects through am wrks, Ariel currently works as a Senior Architectural Designer at Architecture In Formation.