Liza Boffi

Liza Boffi is an artist and designer whose work explores how relationships within living systems give rise to pattern and form.

Trained as an architect, she holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, is a licensed architect, and teaches architecture at Carnegie Mellon University.

I’d love to hear from you about the work, collaborations, or shared interests in art, ecology, and living systems.
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I believe that relationships between living beings define the character of our shared world.

Field Notes
Wood Ears

Wood Ears

|Liza Boffi
Wood ear mushrooms are soft gelatinous looking black fungi that grow, as many mushrooms do, on wood. They are named 'wood ear', which is apt because they look like little...
Sleeping bees

Sleeping bees

|Liza Boffi
My friend Sarah told me that sometimes, after bees have had a good snack on some pollen, they take a little nap inside flowers. Their little butts stick out and...
Some thoughts about lichens

Some thoughts about lichens

|Liza Boffi
I learned recently that lichens are a symbiotic relationship formed between algae and fungus. This means that the many varieties that exist of lichen are actually each distinct collaborations between...