STUDIOIOIO is a collaborative platform for Architects and Designers. In order to start your own architecture practice, you need a first project, to get your first project, you need an established practice. So, how do we solve this chicken-and-egg problem? Design Competitions have, historically, been the way to break this cycle. With pressing issues in the built environment, it is essential that Architects be empowered to bring innovative solutions to realization. By lowering the barrier to entry into practice, we seek to support scalable positive change in our industry.
Our Mission
The STUDIOIOIO platform accelerates emerging design professionals in being able to bring their vision and passion to realization in the built environment.
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STUDIOIOIO is a digital platform for collaboration, serving as a new modality for assembling transdisciplinary teams to work collectively on complex problems in the built environment.
Team
Nicole Biewenga
Co-Founder
Nicole Biewenga received her undergraduate degree from University of California at Berkeley College of Environmental Design with a major in Architecture. She is a graduate dual degree candidate, Master in Real Estate Development and Master of Architecture, at Columbia University.
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Nicole’s work centers on her commitment to design methodologies that engage social equity and cultural competence as essential to how we approach the complexities of transdiciplinary practice.
E.J. Shin
Co-Founder
E.J. is a creative director with design experience in both engineering and architecture. Her academic education has been at the State University of New York and Columbia University.
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Her broad spectrum of experience varies from construction support of the design-build project for Tappan Zee Bridge Hudson River Crossing, New York State’s signature bridge - to participation in the international exhibition at the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Upcoming Milestones
Spring 2024
Summer 2024
Fall 2024
We are launching this site to gather feedback from our community to best understand how STUDIOIOIO can provide a resource to support students and early career professionals in Architecture
We will be seeking SEED investment to build out a beta test of our platform with full functionality! Please check back and stay tuned :)
STUDIOIOIO will launch its firm consulting services to match make independently operating designers to contract work and joint ventures.
Co-Founders Nicole & E.J., STUDIOIOIO
“As early career designers ourselves, we saw that there was a need for this kind of platform where we could share ideas and collaborate with other architects. Since we saw it wasn't available, we decided to build it!"