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Sam Naylor, AIA is an architect, educator, and researcher with a focus in American multifamily housing.
He believes everyone has a right to a dignified, affordable, and delightful dwelling; and is in pursuit of more expansive and imaginative designs for housing—from the block to the bedroom.
He is a founding partner of Nominal︎︎︎, an architecture and design firm based in Boston and Minneapolis; and an adjunct Associate Professor in Practice at the University of Minnesota College of Design.
Lately he has been fervently decarbonizing and renovating a co-operatively owned triple decker with friends in Jamaica Plain, MA. He was the lead designer for Equitable by Design: a zoning research project at Northeastern University, and a Harvard Druker Traveling Fellow investigating co-operative housing design around the world. He is an author of the recently released report: Legalizing Mid-rise Single-Stair Housing in Massachusetts, as well as a co-editor of The State of Housing Design 2023, a book about national design trends—both published by The Harvard Joint Center for Housing.
He is a founding partner of Nominal︎︎︎, an architecture and design firm based in Boston and Minneapolis; and an adjunct Associate Professor in Practice at the University of Minnesota College of Design.
Lately he has been fervently decarbonizing and renovating a co-operatively owned triple decker with friends in Jamaica Plain, MA. He was the lead designer for Equitable by Design: a zoning research project at Northeastern University, and a Harvard Druker Traveling Fellow investigating co-operative housing design around the world. He is an author of the recently released report: Legalizing Mid-rise Single-Stair Housing in Massachusetts, as well as a co-editor of The State of Housing Design 2023, a book about national design trends—both published by The Harvard Joint Center for Housing.
