Martin Finio is a graduate of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union. He spent nearly a decade at the office of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien prior to founding his own firm, Christoff:Finio Architecture, in 1999 with his wife and partner Taryn Christoff. Teaching has been a parallel career to his practice, for the last 18 years at the Yale School of Architecture. In 2016 Finio was elevated to the AIA’s College of Fellows for his contribution to design and architectural education.