After 24 successful years as Founding Partners of Christoff:Finio Architecture, Taryn Christoff and Martin Finio announce they are now practicing independently.

We are proud of what we accomplished with Christoff:Finio Architecture. From our founding in 1999, we have remained committed to the people who engage with our work, and how form, technology, craft, and material affect their lives. We have always been interested in how architecture performs; how it shows us where we are—in place and in time—and how it helps us thrive. Throughout the years, we’ve collaborated with our clients on projects that were extraordinarily fulfilling to work on and thrilling in their results.

Whether our award-winning renovation of Bennington Commons, our transformation of the Heckscher Foundation for Children, our redesign of the Kentucky Museum of Arts and Crafts, our intervention at the New Museum, our exhibition designs and installations for Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Do It and the Venice Biennale, our designs for private residences, or any of our other projects, we are grateful to have worked with great clients on deeply meaningful projects. We believe we achieved what any architect would hope to: enriching the places we designed and the lives of the people who use them.

We also cherish what Christoff:Finio Architecture was as a studio. We have always been a tight-knit group of architects and designers who collaborate and contribute equally, invest deeply in our projects, and empower each other to do our best work.

We want to thank all of our clients, collaborators, project partners, consultants, employees, and friends for helping to make Christoff:Finio Architecture possible, and we look forward to continuing our relationships in the future.

Taryn Christoff has relocated to Los Angeles. Working on projects on East and West coasts, Taryn led the award-winning design of the Brooklyn Heights Public Library (completed in 2023, a collaboration with Gensler). In the beginning of 2023, Taryn joined RIOS, an LA-based, international, multidisciplinary design collective. As a Senior Project Designer, she works on a wide range of projects, currently dividing her time between a private beachfront home in LA, a new workplace in NYC, and an entertainment incubator and venue in Bangkok. In this new role, Taryn continues her exploration of the power and potential of blurring the boundaries between place, landscape, built work, furnishings, art, and design to create holistic and inspiring environments.

Martin Finio has launched IN STUDIO, a new architecture practice based in New York City that focuses equally on designing residential, cultural, and institutional projects as on finding design solutions to some of the 21st century’s most pressing issues, including global warming and the housing crisis. The studio is currently completing several projects, among them a full gut renovation to an 8,000 square-foot, three-level penthouse in a historically significant building on Central Park and a new courtyard house in Sharon, CT. Beyond this, IN STUDIO is working on a wholesale renovation and addition to an 1833 building on the Upper East Side—originally designed by Calvert Vaux for the Children’s Aid Society—to house a tutoring center and an associated non-profit that helps disadvantaged students succeed on standardized tests. Martin is also a committed teacher, and continues his work as Senior Critic and Associate Dean at the Yale School of Architecture.