page_title: Joseph Coriaty
section_title: Professional career
hierarchical_section_title: Joseph Coriaty / Professional career
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context_page_description: Joseph Coriaty, FAIA, is an American architect. Coriaty has dedicated his career to creating buildings that integrate design excellence and place-making with 21st century technologies. His working process has elevated the architects’ role as "maker" and community leader.
context_section_description: After Coriaty earned his Masters of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California in 1980, he spent the early part of his professional career at John Siebel Associate Architects in Los Angeles, California, John Carl Warnecke & Associates in Los Angeles, and Widom/Wein & Partners in Santa Monica, California. In 1983, Coriaty joined The Landau Partnership in Santa Monica, California where he worked as the Project Architect on a number of notable projects, such as Central Park at Toluca Lake in Burbank, California, and The Biltmore Tower at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.
  Coriaty joined Frederick Fisher and Partners in 1988, and became a Partner in 1995. He is currently the Partner-in-Charge for Frederick Fisher and Partner's academic, civic, live-work and community-oriented projects. His focus is the design of the firms’ large-scale signature academic, library, institutional, and museum projects. Coriaty's strong interest in the process of making is founded in his early years spent in Detroit, a leading car manufacturing city. His projects share a common ethos - one that balances program, beauty, efficiency, and community.
  Key projects include, but are not limited to: Firestone Library at Princeton University; Seaver Science Center (Library) at the University of Southern California; the Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at Caltech in Pasadena, California; Phase III of the Campus Expansion initiative at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles; The Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica; Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; Bergamot Station Arts Complex and Redevelopment in Santa Monica; MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York; numerous Houston's Restaurants nationwide; Flint Institute of Arts in Flint, Michigan; and, the Science Education and Research Facility for Crossroads School in Santa Monica.
  Notable awards attributed to projects that Coriaty was the Partner-In-Charge, Designer, and/or Project Director include, but are not limited to: The Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society, New York, for the MoMa PS1 project; Top Prize for Excellence in Restaurant Design from the American Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles Chapter for the Santa Monica Houston's Restaurant project; the Westside Prize, Honor Award in Public Institutional Projects from the Westside Urban Forum for the Annenberg Community Beach House; and, the Honor Award from the Southern California Development Forum as well as the Project of the Year from The Green Building Council, Los Angeles Chapter, and Design Merit Award from the Westside Urban Forum for the Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at Caltech. 
  Coriaty also serves as a board member for the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture and the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, California.
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