Architecture school's centerpiece is the studio, the marathon design workshop where students live at their desks and defend their work in brutal public critiques. The film follows students including Alanna Jaworski, Mike Toste, and Dionysios Neofitidis through their final projects, tracking the all-nighters, model-building, and pin-up reviews that make up studio culture, then sets that footage against interviews with practicing architects and critics of the method. Thom Mayne of Morphosis and Shigeru Ban describe how the studio shaped their own careers, while historians Kenneth Frampton and Mary Woods and educators like Ted Landsmark question whether a teaching model built around individual genius and sleep deprivation still serves students well. Musician David Byrne and writer Annie Choi weigh in from outside the profession, adding perspective on what the studio produces beyond buildings. The film does not resolve the argument; it lays out both the loyalty architects feel toward their training and the toll that training takes, leaving the viewer to weigh whether the system builds better designers or just exhausted ones.