Studio Beirut is a public space in itself: a meeting place, think tank, communications channel for the dialogue between people from different ethnic and socio-economical groups and a platform for an open debate. Studio Beirut initiates the debate by means of initiating various projects and programs, publishing the magazine NOISE in close cooperation with Archis/Volume, maintaining a website and organizing activities like an international and multidisciplinary summer school, an international architecture competition and city tours guided by an architect. This makes Studio Beirut not only a think tank but also an action tank of people that initiate projects for the development of the public space.

Studio Beirut develops an infrastructure with a broad outreach potential by combining a fixed location with a flexible component: A bus will deliver the program to different parts of the country.

Studio Beirut is a foundation, established by Lebanese young professionals (architects, urban planners and designers) in close cooperation with the Dutch organizations Archis, Partizan Publik and Pearl and former director of political and cultural center De Balie in Amsterdam, Chris Keulemans and Ole Bouman, director of the Dutch Architecture institute.