Sigrid Miller Pollin, FAIA was born in Trenton, New Jersey and spent most of her youth in Rhode Island. Before moving to Amherst, Massachusetts with her family in 1998, she was Chair and a professor of architecture in the College of Environmental Design at the California Polytechnic University Pomona. Sigrid is a Professor of Architecture Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Architecture and principal of Miller Pollin Architecture.

Throughout her career in architecture she has explored connections between art and architecture. In 2011 Sigrid began collaborating with architect Stephen Schreiber, and landscape architect Jane Thurber, in exhibits of drawings, bas reliefs and paintings related to interpretations of patterns found in the landscape, called Field Notes. The overlaps they have explored between art and architecture, the natural environment and the built environment have led to a total of eight collaborative exhibits thus far. In 2018 an exhibit of architectural models produced in California and Massachusetts by Miller Pollin Architecture was held at the John Olver Design Building Gallery at UMass Amherst. In fall of 2018 Miller Pollin’s mixed media drawings exploring the cellular structure of selected plants was featured in a three-person show at UMass’s Hampden Gallery along with New York artists Joan Weber and Paula Elliot. She describes this recent body of work as “looking inward beyond the surface and into the space that nature creates every day.”