Built from late nights, studio crits, and unfinished sections.

I started AStudio as an architecture student who kept losing the thread between what tutors said in crit and what I could actually do at the desk. The notes never matched the drawings. The references were always somewhere else. The feedback arrived once a week, if at all.

So I built the tutor I wished I had — patient, well-read, and available at 2am, the hour when most studio decisions are actually made.

Studio culture is beautiful and brutal. The same drawing can be brilliant on Monday and broken on Friday, depending on who is talking. AStudio is an attempt to give every student access to a calm, considered second opinion — grounded in precedent, not personality.

Architecture school assumes a kind of osmosis: that you will absorb taste, references, and methods from the air. In reality, most of us learn by stealing — from senior students, from monographs we can barely afford, from late-night browsing of Divisare and ArchDaily.

AStudio formalises that quiet curriculum. It surfaces the precedents you should know, in conversation with the work you are actually making.

Upload a plan, a section, a render, a portfolio spread. AStudio reads it against the language of architecture — composition, hierarchy, tectonics, atmosphere — and returns critique tuned to the school of thought you choose: Ando, SANAA, Zumthor, Kéré, the Smithsons.

Each critique arrives with a curated reading list of precedents — drawings, photographs, sections — so the conversation never ends with a verdict. It opens into more architecture.

We believe in the studio as a way of working — long hours, good company, real conversation around drawings. AStudio is not a replacement for that. It is a quiet companion to it: a reader, a librarian, a second pair of eyes.