Garrett Knoll

Based in New York, I've spent over a decade training my eye on the built world — not to document it, but to abstract it. My work sits somewhere between architectural photography, graphic design, and color field painting: facades become canvases, shadows become geometry, and structures designed by the world's most ambitious architects reveal something quieter and more elemental than their reputations suggest.

My subjects span continents — Le Corbusier's Berlin, Ricardo Bofill's Costa Blanca, the medinas of Marrakech, the boulevards of Buenos Aires, the Brutalist riverbanks of London — but the instinct behind each image is the same: find the frame where architecture becomes abstraction.

Architecture was my first visual language. I studied it at Cornell University, interned at firms back home, and spent a summer in Tokyo working for Sou Fujimoto — one of the most celebrated Japanese architects of his generation. I never became a practicing architect. Instead I moved into graphic design, then art direction, then spent the last nine years as a product manager in software. But the love never left. What photography gives me is a way back in — a reason to stand in front of extraordinary buildings and look at them the way I was trained to...

Cornell University, Architecture

2026 Clio Art Fair, NYC Art Week