Nat Garnenez is an interdisciplinary designer, educator, and researcher based in the high New Mexican desert. His work moves between design practice, critical inquiry, and contextually grounded innovation, drawing on threads of architecture, ecology, cognition, and place-based knowledge. His practice spans residential design, architectural education, product design, and data-driven research, unified by a commitment to beauty, rigor, and social responsibility. He currently teaches in the School of Architecture + Planning at the University of New Mexico, where he guides students through design studios that merge architectural thinking with neuroscience, phenomenology, ecological systems, and context-based methods.

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Nat holds a Master of Architecture degree from the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design (APDesign) at Kansas State University, with additional work in regional planning, political science, economics, Indigenous philosophy, complex systems, and qualitative and quantitative methods. Across studio, classroom, fabrication, and research, his work aims to cultivate a more intelligent, humane, and ecologically conscious built environment—one that honors place, perception, experience, memory, imagination, and responsibility in equal measure.

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natgarnenez@nsitu.studio