Corbin is inspired by the built environment, from ground-up construction to restoring historic buildings with modern sustainable technologies. He has worked on projects of many scales, from 17-story commercial buildings to furniture pieces for residential projects. Corbin, an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe, was raised in Oakland, California, and Montana. He studied at Cornell University’s five-year professional Architecture program and earned a B.Arch. degree. In 2000, Corbin moved to NYC and began working for the design firm, CANresources. He honed his craft under the guidance of Derek Sanders and Serge Becker, working on many innovative projects (the downtown LA Standard Hotel, Volume nightclub in Brooklyn, as well as renovations at the Time Cafe and Joe's Pub, La Esquina, office buildings in Edison, NJ, and multiple residences in South Hampton, NY). In 2002 he met Nathaniel Corum who was building straw bale houses on the Crow reservation in Montana, with the nonprofit group, Red Feather. Nathaniel invited him to do the 3-dimensional illustrations for the book " Building a Straw Bale House: The Red Feather Construction Handbook" that was published in 2005. Corbin worked as a designer for the photographer David La Chapelle, and hotelier Vikram Chatwell, when they renovated the Majestic Hotel into the Dream Hotel in Time Square. He worked with Murat Bugdaycay on the 16,000 sf headquarters for the Rebecca Taylor Clothing Company. He was hired by Sean Macpherson and Eric Goode to work on the design team during the construction of the Bowery Hotel, the Lafayette House, the Waverly Inn restaurant, and the Jane Hotel, and a few notable projects in Los Angeles. He also was a designer for the aptly named Crow's Nest restaurant and Inn in Montauk, NY. In 2011, Corbin worked as the construction manager / project manager of a high-end residential townhouse on Perry Street in New York’s West Village, for the architecture firm, Studio Castellano. Since 2015, Corbin has been the principle designer and owner of GrayHorse Inc, a firm based in NYC that provides design and construction management services to real estate developers, hospitality development groups, and non-profits specializing in developing affordable / sustainable housing on reservations.
