Andreas Palfinger

Architectural designer & artist with focus on organic and parametric design.
New York based, globally active.




He embraces critical and speculative approaches, articulated in time-based media, CGI, AR and VR.
Recent projects include co-creating a VR fashion show, teaching architects and designers new methods to create organic-parametric geometry, and writing, directing and producing an anti-utopian shortfilm in Unreal Engine – with special focus on worldbuilding and digital set design.
He is instructor for organic-parametric geometry for architects and designers on Futurly and Parametric Architecture Academy.

Andreas studies in the Master of Architecture program at Pratt Institute, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design, New York City.
He holds a Magister (Masters degree) from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (graphic design, industrial design, painting and animated Film) and studied at Bauhaus University Weimar (architecture).

Andreas got honored internationally, among others at the Art Directors Club of Europe Awards, the International Design Awards, the Red Dot Awards, Dezeen Awards and the New York International Film Awards.

mail → hello@andreas-palfinger.at
Portfolio & CV → on request

instagram → @andreas_palfinger
recent interview → here

selection


Vienna Design Week, AT
2023

CIVA, Belvedere 21
Vienna, AT
2023

European Forum Alpbach
via Angewandte Innovation Lab
Austria
2022

Experience Near Death Experience
by Room 69
Museumsquartier Vienna
2022

Vienna Biennale for Change
Climate Care / Movement in urban space
2021

Expanded Realities and Networked Voices
within CIVA (Contemporary Immersive Virtual Art)
Vienna’s Media Art Festival
2021

Red Dot Winners Selection 21
Museum of Communication, Berlin
2021

Orangerie of Post–Materiality
Vienna, Worldwide
2021

Vienna Design Week
FYVM: Designers as Troublemakers
2021

The Best of European Design
Elisava Atri, Barcelona
2020

Dis_Tanz, Performance
Bauhaus Weimar, Germany
2020

What a Year
Joseph Binder Award winners
Museumsquartier Vienna
2020

Yanchi
Virtual Music Festival
Design of a VR Architecture
Vienna, Worldwide
2020

Graphic Matters
Information Superpower
Breda, NL
2019

Critical Care, Architecture for a Broken Planet
Architekturzentrum Wien
Vienna
2019

Alphabet of Life / Biomimicry
Werkraum Bregenzerwald
Vorarlberg
2018

Mephistophelia (solo)
Salzburg
2017

Group exhibition at Summeracademy of Fine Arts
Salzburg
2016

selection


New York International Film Awards
Winner: Best 1st Time Director
2022, NYC


Dezeen Awards
Longlist: Visualisation of the Year
2022, London


NewOne Awards
New Media: Finalist Award
2022


Best Austrian Animations BAAF
Official Selection
2022


Paris Art and Movie Awards PAMA
Winner: Best Animated Short Film
2022, Paris


14th International Design Awards
2 X Gold
2021, Los Angeles


New York Festivals AD Awards
Finalist
2021, New York


Red Dot Award
Best of the Best Award
2021, Berlin


European Design Award
Gold
2020, Valencia


ADC*E Awards
Gold
by the Art Directory Club of Europe.
2020, Barcelona


CCA-Awards
Gold
by Creativ Club Austria.
2020, Vienna


Joseph Binder Award
Bronze
by Design Austria.
2020, Vienna

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Pratt Institute, New York City
Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design
M.arch Program
2022 — 2025