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He is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. Chris is the founding principal of studio:indigenous and creates artifacts that offer a distinct vision of contemporary Indigenous culture. Chris was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Master of Architecture from the University of Virginia. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, studio:indigenous is working at intensely varied scales. Their distinct and highly personal approach leverages the cultural underpinnings, devices, and thinking of Indigenous culture to manifest original architecture, art, and objects. In 2025, Cornelius was inducted into the National Academy of Design. His other awards include the inaugural Miller Prize from Exhibit Columbus, multiple Best of Design Awards from the Architect’s Newspaper, and an Artist residency from the National Museum of the American Indian. studio:indigenous is the recipient of the 2023 Architect’s Newspaper Best of Practice Award for Best Small Firm, Southwest. Chris has been exhibited widely including the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He has been a visiting professor at Yale (Spring 2021), Columbia (Spring 2024), and was the Spring 2025 Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University. 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Applied Research and Design Publishing, San Francisco, California, October 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1e680832601eaa3063af37/a9056dbf-10fd-49b5-9b90-88957d7577e0/24_Conscious+Community.jpg Books - Conscious Community: The Louis I. Kahn Assistant Professorship, Yale School of Architecture Edited by Nina Rappaport and Stav Dror. Yale School of Architecture, Distributed by Actar, New York, August 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1e680832601eaa3063af37/9e0f6875-9c24-4255-b429-e893fec5e84c/23_An+Indigenous+Present.jpg Books - An Indigenous Present Edited by Jefferey Gibson. Del Monico Books & Big NDN Press, New York, New York, August 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1e680832601eaa3063af37/38a30d9a-9401-4ce9-ad56-4f4793f4d3dc/21_Creatures+Are+Stirring.jpg Books - Creatures Are Stirring: A Guide to Architectural Companionship Edited by Joseph Altshuler and Julia Sedlock. Applied Research and Design Publishing Fall 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1e680832601eaa3063af37/4df4a7ee-1383-4959-8b8e-de44c12474e5/20_The+Multi-Skilled+Designer.jpg Books - The Multi-Skilled Designer: A Cognitive Foundation for Inclusive Architectural Thinking Newton D’Souza. Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1e680832601eaa3063af37/3352ab4a-2b1f-4c9a-80b9-d7531c06b18c/14_Human+Factors+in+the+Built+Environment.jpg Books - Human Factors in the Built Environment Linda Nussbaumer. Fairchild Books, New York, New York, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1e680832601eaa3063af37/762d0819-45d8-4936-845e-d8bf4ce58946/13_Architecture+in+Perspective+28.jpg Books - Architecture in Perspective 28 American Society of Architectural Illustrators, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1e680832601eaa3063af37/e08dcb12-b3f9-40af-ac29-36d904f4a851/13_draftery_cover_from+pdf.jpg Books - Fig. 03: That then Disappear in the Building of It Athanasiou Geolas. The Draftery, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a1e680832601eaa3063af37/0c480e21-8c2d-4050-964d-ce1831a9972d/13_New+Architecture+on+Indigenous+Lands.jpg Books - New Architecture on Indigenous Lands Joy Monice Malnar & Frank Vodvarka. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2013