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Field notes from the studio. AI tooling, AEC workflows, and what we learn shipping.
Claude Code Cheat Sheet for Architects and Designers
A practical Claude Code cheat sheet for architects: installation, essential commands, project setup, skills, and architecture workflow examples.
One Wall, Five Ways to Build It
We tested five ways for agents to build a brick wall in Rhino. Larger operations reduced exchanges; direct Python was cheapest with Sonnet in these runs.
Arch Studio 1.5 Improved Cold-Start Project Records
In 27 cold-start runs per arm, Arch Studio produced valid project records 55.6% of the time against vanilla Claude's 14.8%.
Arch Studio 1.5: The Four Layers a Firm Builds On
Arch Studio 1.5 is one release on two channels: the open-source plugin for Codex and Claude Code, and the hosted MCP inside Claude or ChatGPT. Four layers, 61 skills, Norma, and nothing to run but your assistant.
Architecture Studio Now Runs on Codex
Architecture Studio v1.4.2 brings all 46 open-source AEC skills to Codex, with native plugin packaging, portable workspaces, and the same project memory used in Claude Code.
AEC Magazine on the Judgement Stack
Martyn Day dedicated a feature in AEC Magazine to Skills for Architects, using it as the public reference architecture for what he calls the judgement stack — the layer a practice owns above the model.
Can Your Firm Train Its Own AI Model? Pre-Training, Fine-Tuning, and RAG, Explained
Pre-training and fine-tuning are both called training — one takes a frontier lab, the other runs on a Mac mini. Firms announcing they'll train their own model are usually describing the one they can't afford.
Architecture Studio 1.4: The Skills You Write Yourself
283 stars, 46 skills, and a breaking migration — v1.4 turns the plugin into a framework your firm extends, with a studio workspace, firm-owned skills, and project records that outlive every update.
Architecture Studio 1.3: A Course in the Terminal
255 stars, 40 skills, and a new kind of skill entirely — v1.3 ships /learn, a six-module hands-on course that teaches architects Claude Code itself, on a fictional Brooklyn art museum project.
Architecture Firms Need an Agent Harness
AI agents for architecture firms need more than a chat window. Vercel's eve gives teams a durable runtime for tools, subagents, approvals, channels, and memory, with Architecture Studio and Norma as the domain and material layers.
Introducing Norma
Norma is an AI material library and product-memory layer for architecture and design studios, turning messy schedules, quotes, specs, and product research into private, cited, reusable studio memory.
Architecture Studio at Three Months: Your Project Gets a Memory
179 stars, 39 skills, seven releases — and the biggest change isn't a skill at all. Architecture Studio v1.2 gives every project a dossier and a decision log, as plain files in the project folder.
How Architecture Firms Should Build Their AI Stack
A practical framework for architecture firms building an AI stack: model access, agent harnesses, domain agents, project memory, material libraries, governance, and review.
Agentic AI in AEC: What Actually Changes for Practice
A practical view of agentic AI in AEC: what changes inside architecture firms, what should stay human-led, and how agent harnesses, project memory, and material libraries fit together.
Architecture Studio's First Month: 100+ Stars on GitHub
Architecture Studio hit 100 GitHub stars in its first month. Here's what the numbers say about how architects are adopting AI tools — and what surprised us.
Introducing Architecture Studio
Architecture Studio is an open-source AI agent system for architects and interior designers — Claude workflows for site research, zoning, specifications, product research, FF&E schedules, and sustainability.
Most AEC AI Apps Are Just Claude Wrappers
A practical test for firms evaluating AI tools: what proprietary data does it hold, what does it actually compute, and what would it cost to build yourself?