Wm. Coleman Mills

Studio Director

Coleman Mills is the Studio Director for CDP Architecture. A Fairhope, Alabama native, Mills received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Auburn, Cornell and Harvard and has studied and trained under AIA Gold Medalists Samuel Mockbee and Michael Graves. Mills’ architecture and interior design work has been featured in regional, national and international publications, including Coastal Living, Delta Sky Magazine and Southern Living. He has served as adjunct faculty for both the architecture and interior design programs at Auburn University and a visiting professor of Architecture at Belmont University. As an abstract expressionist painter, Wm. Coleman Mills' work is an exploration of mnemonics. In his own words, Mills is far more interested in "the memory of a place, with its inherent inaccuracies and overlays of emotions, than a photographic recollection". An avid outdoorsman, Mills draws inspiration from hours spent in the broom sedge fields, pinoak forests, salt marshes
and grass flats of the American South. He combines the saturated colors and organic forms of this natural world with the regulating lines of his architectural education to create richly textured compositions deeply embedded with memory and place. His paintings often catalog hunting and fly fishing excursions throughout the Southeast, Florida Keys, Caribbean and Gulf Coast
barrier islands.

Education:

Master of Design Studies in Architectural History & Theory | Harvard University

Master of Architecture (M.ARCH) | Cornell University

Minor in Real Estate Development | Cornell University

Bachelor of Architecture (B.ARCH) | Auburn University