EN/FRStudio International
We work across cultures and geographies, bringing design ambition, technical rigor, and project leadership together in architecture that belongs to its place.
Mission
Studio International delivers architecture, interiors, and urban design through a disciplined process of listening, research, collaboration, and thoughtful execution. Each project emerges from a careful understanding of its people, place, climate, and culture.
Vision
To create architecture that enriches lives by responding thoughtfully to people, context, climate, and culture, contributing enduring places that belong naturally to their communities.
Philosophy
Architecture is a response, not an assertion. It emerges from listening to the land, climate, culture, history, and people. Every project is approached as a unique response to its context, bringing these forces together into a coherent architectural solution.
Our complete approach
The lives, ambitions, and rituals of the people who will inhabit a place are the first design material.
Landscape, urban fabric, available craft, memory, and local materials give architecture its grounding.
Orientation, shade, ventilation, water, and material performance are architectural questions, not technical additions.
We seek meaning in the histories and identities already present rather than importing a predetermined architectural language.
Program, structure, systems, and material decisions are resolved as one coherent architectural idea.
Design intent is protected through disciplined process, technical rigor, and collaborative leadership from first study through construction.
Founder
Founder & Design Principal
For Aurélien Tsemo, architecture begins with the responsibility to listen and demands the discipline to deliver. He founded Studio International to create work shaped by the people it serves and by the particular realities of place, climate, and culture. His approach joins design ambition with technical rigor, collaboration, and an understanding of construction, strengthening the original idea as it becomes real. He seeks not to impose architecture upon a setting, but to create enduring places that feel contemporary, purposeful, and naturally at home.
Architectural qualification
École d’Architecture de Versailles, France 1994
Professional registration
State of Illinois, USA
Professional affiliations