Atlas Lantz Studio
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The Shape of Things to Come
Our Expertise
As 2025 gave way to 2026, I felt an undeniable urgency to make a fundamental shift in my professional life. After fifteen years working within and then leading a large, global organization as CEO, Creative Director, Architect and Owner, I found myself increasingly distanced from the essential questions of design and practice—questions that were evolving faster than the structures built to support them. Leadership brings influence, but in large systems, change moves slowly. And the world, quite simply, no longer does.
The pace of global transformation demands new ways of working. Climate, culture, technology, and human needs are shifting simultaneously, requiring design to respond with speed, clarity, and responsibility. Celebrating global perspective, working across boundaries, believing in science, and designing for the full spectrum of human experience are no longer aspirational values—they are urgent necessities. It is from this understanding that Atlas Lantz Studio was born.
Our ambitions are clear.
Gravity.
We feel the weight of a changing world around us.
To practice today is to accept responsibility for what we shape and what we consume. A design studio must do more than respond to the next five years—it must project fifty years forward, designing with permanence, restraint, resilience and clarity. Resources are not abstract; they are finite, physical, and already under pressure. Every decision leaves a trace.
Our work is grounded in this reality. Resilience is not an aesthetic nor is it a check list—it is a discipline. We design with full awareness that the choices made now will define the systems, landscapes, and lives that follow. Architecture, in this context, becomes an act of stewardship: deliberate, rigorous, and accountable to the world beyond its own site.
Medium.
We are not traditional architects or designers.
In the 21st century, effective design operates across mediums, scales, and systems. Sometimes the solution is a building; other times it is a framework, a process, or a plan that sustains what already exists. Architecture today is as much about thinking as it is about making.
At the core of our practice is design thinking—an ideas-first approach that allows us to identify the right problem before proposing a solution. We work deliberately across boundaries: between typologies, disciplines, professions, and forms of production. This range is not an exception; it is the method.
Our goal is to locate design’s influence everywhere it matters—from furniture to gadgets, from daily rituals to the built environment. By operating beyond conventional limits, we assert that creative thinking is not optional; it is essential to solving the challenges of what comes next.
Human.
We believe in being global citizens.
The human condition is our common ground. It is the foundation of how and why we practice. Through design, we work to make the built world more human—more aware of the lives it holds, shapes, and influences. Even the smallest shift in perspective can reveal entirely new ways of seeing, and with them, new ways of making.
Our work is not limited by geography. Local challenges matter, but they do not exist in isolation. We engage the world across cultures, rituals, social structures, and generations, expanding the range of references that inform every decision we make. This participation builds a broader toolkit—one that allows ideas to move across borders and scales. The more clearly we understand the human condition—both in places unfamiliar and in the communities we serve—the stronger our design becomes.
Curiosity.
We practice relentless curiosity.
Architecture has long been built on the idea that a solution, once proven, can be repeated endlessly—applied anywhere, to anything, without question. We reject this assumption. The world is not uniform, and neither are the people, cultures, climates, geologies, ecologies or conditions that shape it. By actively participating in the world around us, we see diversity as a constant, not a variable to be ignored. This reality demands invention. It requires innovation not as a gesture, but as a method. Each project is a new question, and each context requires its own response.
Relentless curiosity is the engine of our practice. It gives us the energy to challenge precedent, to question typology, to test ideas, and to create solutions that are specific, fresh, and purposeful. One size does not fit all—and it never should.
Our Services
Atlas Lantz Studio marks the next evolution of this journey. Founded on the belief that design must think deeper, move faster, be more responsible, more human, and more forward-looking, the studio is a platform for deeper inquiry, sharper focus, and greater impact. It brings together decades of global experience with a renewed commitment to curiosity and collaboration for the world as it is, and the future we are shaping together.
Onward and upward.
About our Founder
Andy Lantz is an architect and visionary leader whose work is rooted in the belief that design carries responsibility far beyond the object. His practice bridges vision and execution, ensuring that every project—regardless of scale or geography— contributes meaningfully to the human, ecological, and cultural systems it inhabits. Architecture, for Andy, is an act of stewardship as much as it is an act of creation.
With more than two decades of experience across architecture, interior architecture, urban design, and master planning, Andy brings a deeply multidisciplinary perspective to complex challenges. His work spans competition-winning public spaces, large-scale urban master plans, cultural and music institutions, content production campuses, and future-focused workplace environments. From award-winning projects for Spotify, Sony Pictures Animation, and 11755 Wilshire in Los Angeles to work across Chicago, New York, Bangkok, Abu Dhabi, China, London, and beyond, his portfolio reflects a consistent commitment to making the built world more connected, more human, and more relevant to the needs of the twenty-first century.
Prior to founding Atlas Lantz Studio, Andy served as Co-CEO, Partner, and Global Creative Director at RIOS, where he spent fifteen years shaping the firm’s creative direction and global growth. During his tenure, he led the expansion of the practice into London, Shanghai, and Singapore, building international teams and establishing a unified design language informed by global issues, local cultures, and relentless curiosity. His leadership ensured that RIOS operated as a single, interconnected practice—one that learned from the world as it designed for it.
Beyond practice, Andy is a recognized thought leader, contributing to industry panels, keynote engagements, and national broadcasts. Through these platforms, he continues to advocate for design thinking as a critical tool for navigating complexity, shaping the future of work, and guiding responsible decision-making in a changing world.