Established in 2015, ASTVDIO is a design office located in Santa Monica, CA specializing in residential, commercial, and interior design.
We create curated environments that reflect our client’s personality, lifestyle, and necessities. Our contemporary aesthetic is inspired by the past with an eye towards the future.
Our interdisciplinary practice blends form and light with texture and materiality to create projects that feel timeless, local, and personalized.
ASTVDIO is run by Clementina Vinals and Emmet Truxes, who met while studying architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
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CLEMENTINA VINALS, Founding Principal
Clementina is a Venezuelan architect born and raised in Caracas. She received her Bachelors of Architecture at Universidad Central de Venezuela and Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" in 2008 and her Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2012. Before founding ASTVDIO, she worked in offices across many scales and disciplines of design, including Massimiliano Fuksas in Rome, her own practice in Caracas, SWA Group in Laguna Beach, Ashe + Leandro in New York, and Beyer Blinder Belle in NYC.
EMMET TRUXES, Founding Principal
Emmet grew up in Connecticut and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Princeton University in 2006 before receiving his Master in Architecture I from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2013. Prior to founding ASTVDIO, he worked for Centerbrook (Essex, CT), studioMDA (New York City), PPAA (Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados) (Mexico City), and Nastasi Architects (Hoboken, NJ).