in architecture, magna cum laude University of Southern California Joseph Coriaty, FAIA, (born June 26, 1956) is an American architect.

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's strong interest in the process of making is founded in his early years spent in Detroit, a leading car-manufacturing city.

[1] Coriaty's long-spanning accomplishments as a design leader and visionary architect were recognized in 2022 when he was honored by Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles and in 2021 when he received the Spirit of Detroit Mercy Alumni Achievement Award.

Regarding his work on Princeton's Firestone Library, home to over 5,000,000 volumes, he explained, "the idea is to embrace the existing building and expand the ethos as a 'laboratory of learning'."

"[2][3] Many of the recent public and institutional projects that Coriaty and his colleagues at Frederick Fisher and Partners have designed, including projects at Caltech as well as the Annenberg Community Beach House at Santa Monica State Beach, share many of the hallmarks of modern architecture: the clean lines, the boxy, glass-wrapped volumes, the disdain for literal historical ornament.

[4] Other projects include the Colby College Art Museum in Waterville, Maine, where an enormous artistic bequest necessitated an addition to an existing exhibition space.

"[2] Coriaty traveled to Haiti with members of the Jesuit Refugee Service in an effort to evaluate the damaged school buildings.