Origami is an art & craft form that has always fascinated me. I have made countless cranes, but also frogs, turtles, fish, elephants, koalas, whales, even a pterodactyl mobile.
Other than animals, the most common 3-dimensional origami forms are boxes, flowers, vases, and other functional items.
At one point many years ago, during my various crafting experiments, I discovered an art that combined my various interests in 3D forms – origamic architecture!
Origamic architecture may remind you of children’s pop-up cards but it can be extremely sophisticated and intricate.
The masters of this art as you might expect are from Japan. Professor Masahiro Chatani is considered to be the creator, combining techniques of origami (paper-folding) & kirigami (paper-cutting).
Templates are available on-line for many of the designs. Creating the piece is a meditative process as it involves much patience and precision.
If you want to give it a try, begin as I did with some simple designs from Baud & Bui . At the other extreme are these amazing creations from a Netherlands paper architect/artist .
Most of the cards that I made were sold through a craft shop, and I now have only a couple remaining as a reminder of one of my craft obsessions.
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