Studio — ATELIER® Architecture & Interiors

Architect working on a building model at the studio

● The model shop, Refshaleøen

01 — Our story

Built slowly, on purpose.

ATELIER was founded in 2009 by Astrid Holm and Jonas Beck, in a single rented room with two drawing boards and a shared conviction: that the age of the loud building was ending. The first commissions were small — a bathroom, a bookshop, a stair — and each was treated with the seriousness of a museum.

The studio grew the way we believe buildings should grow: slowly, and only when necessary. Sixteen years later we remain deliberately compact. Every project is led by a partner from first sketch to final site visit, supported by a team that joins each building’s life early and stays with it long after handover.

Today the practice works across Denmark, Norway, Spain, Portugal and Italy, on houses, galleries, workplaces and the careful repair of older structures. The tools have changed; the temperament has not.

Open plan studio interior with kitchen and staircase

● The library stair, ATELIER Copenhagen, 2024

02Chronology Sixteen years, six chapters

2009
Astrid Holm and Jonas Beck found the studio in a rented room on Gammel Strand. First commission: a bookshop stair.
Copenhagen
2013
First built house completed — a summer residence in pine and limestone. The studio grows to five.
Sjælland
2016
Interior department established under Mara Lindqvist; the practice begins designing buildings and rooms as one work.
Copenhagen
2019
Bastion Gallery, Lisbon — a sample milestone marking the studio’s first cultural commission.
Lisbon
2022
A sample timeline milestone: a satellite workshop opens in Milan and Villa Sera is completed.
Milan · Girona
2025
A growing portfolio focused on working with existing structures. The manifesto holds: build less, build better.
Today

03Principles What we return to

Three rules we rarely break.

(01)

Restraint over statement

We are not interested in buildings that perform for the camera and exhaust their inhabitants. A plan that works quietly for fifty years is a better legacy than a silhouette that trends for a season.

(02)

Materials that age well

Short palettes, honestly applied. Stone, timber, lime, brass — surfaces that deepen with use rather than degrade. We test every material against weather, touch and time before it enters a project.

(03)

Buildings as hosts

Architecture should set the table, not dominate the meal. Our best reviews are the ones clients give years later, when the house has disappeared into the ease of everyday life.

04People Partners & leads