Ari Pescovitz is a licensed architect and trained metalsmith whose work encompasses Judaica, fine art, ornamental metalwork, and architecture. His practice is defined by craft and by a careful attention to detail as the place where design becomes tangible. Whether creating a ritual object or an architectural assembly, he approaches design as a way to give form to symbolism, structure, and human experience through material.

His earliest training in silversmithing centered on jewelry and Judaica, where symbolism, structure, and material were inseparable. Influenced by structural engineering and educated within a Bauhaus-informed tradition, he developed a lasting sensitivity to the role of craft in shaping design. This foundation was broadened through formal study in anthropology and biology, disciplines that continue to inform his understanding of objects, materials, and the built environment. Architectural training and licensure later expanded this way of thinking to the scale of buildings, where drawing, digital modeling, and fabrication operate as a continuous process through which ideas are developed, tested, and refined.

For more than a decade, Pescovitz worked within an ornamental metals shop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where he began as a fabricator and draftsman and later served as Design Director at Ferra Designs. In this role, he led small design teams in the realization of complex custom metalwork including stairs, feature walls, façades, canopies, and finely detailed doors and windows. His work required the translation of architectural intent into fabrication logic through shop drawings, parametric models, and CNC-ready files, guiding projects from initial concept through installation in collaboration with firms including Olson Kundig, RAMSA, Diller Scofidio and Renfro, STUDIOS Architecture, and Leroy Street Studio. In 2025, one of his duplex stair projects received the Top Job award at the NOMMA Convention.

Alongside this architectural work, Pescovitz maintains an active studio practice in Judaica and fine art, creating objects in silver, concrete, bronze, and steel that explore the relationship between symbolism, structure, and material. He also produces abstract pen and ink drawings composed of dense, intricate line work that invite viewers to perceive familiar forms within visual complexity, an exploration of pareidolia and the way the mind searches for order within pattern. His work is defined by the meeting of craft, design, and symbolism in material form.