Nathaniel Corum

RA

Design Director

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Nathaniel is an architect and planner focused on bringing expertise and care to help community partners envision and realize their goals. His work as a Design Director at MASS is informed by the belief that culturally and environmentally responsive projects arise through trust and collaboration with communities.

Since joining MASS in 2018, Nathaniel has led community engagement, design production, and construction administration and managed projects across a portfolio of projects, including community and entrepreneurship centers, housing initiatives, and collaborations around public memory and memorialization. 

In the past five years, he has helped deliver projects such as the Change Labs Entrepreneurship Hub (Navajo Nation), the Bago Ga Napo, Tule House Elder Village (Big Valley Rancheria), the Anahola Sports Complex, Ranch & Rodeo Grounds (Kauai, Hawaii), the Willamette Falls Inter-Tribal Public Access Project (West Linn, Oregon), and the Northern Cheyenne Healing Trail (Sioux & Dawes Counties, Nebraska). 

Before joining MASS, Nathaniel held leadership roles at Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative, Architecture for Humanity, and Indigenous Community Enterprises. His work has been supported by a Fulbright Scholarship, a Senior Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas Fellowship, an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship, and a Creative Capital Award; it has been featured in Dwell, Domus, and The New York Times, and exhibited at venues including SFMOMA, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.

Nathaniel holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Arts in Design Synthesis from Stanford University.