These are our studio values and what we stand for
We’re proud to share our values with you. These are what we stand for, what guides us and how we show up when no one’s watching. Like our work, we made them with meaning.
Thanks go to the Andy Matthews Studio team - we did this together. And to our collaborators Sue Austin, Andy Ainger and Emma Hutton for helping to get them out of our heads, onto the page and into the world.
We have talked about values for some time now as individuals and as a business, and how important these are to us. This presentation or conversation around these has often been in quite general terms with a few outline examples. It’s much better to be clear about these and with this in mind we have worked to define these recently and are now ready to share them, and more importantly, live by them. These values should cost us something and I believe these will be a powerful way of improving our practice as we go forward.
One thing that’s worth saying is how interesting the process of developing these as a team was. In our workshop we were all incredibly well aligned from the outside. I would encourage more architects and others in the construction community to define their values and have the confidence to share the publicly.
There is some nuance to these and I’d be delighted to discuss them further, and how we got here, if anyone is interested.Andy Matthews, December 2025
Studio team: Liz, Jacob, Stephen, Christopher, Andy
Values workshop: Sue Austin
Words & development: Emma Hutton
Illustrations: Andy Ainger
Brand & identity: Conductor
Click on the image previews below to open a gallery of larger images.
A further gallery of mockups and tests is below from our illustrator, Andy Ainger. You can read more about his process and thoughts on the project here.
