Articles by Pat Finn

Contemplating pastries as structured objects is a thrilling paradigm shift for any design fan with a sweet tooth.

The Land Art Generator Initiative is an annual design contest celebrating environmentally conscious innovation in architecture and engineering. The group’s tagline, “Renewable Energy Can Be Beautiful,” sums up the ethos of the contest nicely. While the entries might only be concept pieces, their visual ingenuity enables us to envision a world untethered from wasteful practices.…

Ole Scheeren’s unique tower features a three-dimensional ribbon of architectural pixels.

Burning Man 2016 might have come to a close, but like a phoenix it will rise again next year, hotter and brighter than ever. Until then, we are left with the memories of this one-of-a-kind festival, which ties art, music and design together with the spirit of community. If you missed the festivities in Black…

Stenciling goes all the way back to the beginning of art history, predating even the paintbrush. Cav e paintings from 35,000 years ago feature hand tracings of prehistoric humans made with blown pigment. Through the millennia, the technique has waxed and waned in popularity and prestige, perhaps reaching its apex during the Edo period in Japan…

“Seeking everyday magic.” This is the tagline for Manuel Pita’s Instagram page (@sejkko). In this re porter’s opinion, however, the sentiment is too humble: Sejkko doesn’t find everyday magic as much as he uses his artistry to infuse magic into the everyday. The tool he uses to achieve his alchemy is one that will be familiar…

Popular Instagrammer Koyuki (@koyoox) is drawn to clean, functional lines and surfaces. The Tokyo-ba sed graphic designer’s photographs feature both natural and built spaces, but there is a congruency between the two. That is, the built environments featured in her photos are rational, calm and follow design principles that are anything but arbitrary or ornamental. {%…

Previously on Architizer, we have discussed photorealism, a genre of painting that aspires to the un canny illusionism of photographs. There is a converse to this, of course: photos that capture scenes of such boldness and clarity one would think they were looking at a painting. Instagrammer Yener Torun is an expert in such photographs. He…

There is much discussion these days about the need for architects to attend to the needs of their en vironment rather than impose their personal visions from up on high à laHoward Roark. This is, of course, a mature, responsible position and one that most architects eventually come around to anyway. But still, the injunction that,…