garrett finney, principal

is trained as an architect and lives and works in Houston, Texas. He has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degrees in Architecture from Yale University. He was awarded the Rome Prize in Architecture in 1994.

He founded TAXA OUTDOORS (www.taxaoutdoors.com) – which designs and manufactures innovative, forward looking mobile habitats. He served as CEO and Chief Design Officer for 15 years.

He recently sailed across the southern Atlantic Ocean on a 48 foot catamaran.

His practice has included designs for outer space, residential and commercial architectures, furnitures, and design and research of small habitats - their uses and impacts in the world and in particular their influence and implications for outdoor infrastructures.

His experience includes consulting at NASA-JSC on Lunar Habitats, time as the Senior Architect at the Habitability Design Center, NASA-JSC where he worked on designs for the Habitation Module of the International Space Station, as an architect, professor, blacksmith, industrial designer and home builder.

His work has been exhibited in New York, Milan and Rome. He edited issue number 29 of Perspecta, Yale’s Journal of Architecture. He has taught design at the University of Minnesota, the University of Kentucky as the John Russell Groves-Kentucky Housing Corporation Visiting Professor in Affordable Housing Research, the Rhode Island School of Design and Temple University. He has delivered lectures at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, University of Kentucky in Lexington, Columbia University in New York City, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and many others.