In its various facets of atelier, home-office, workshop, and lab, the architectural studio is a proper stage for expressing and disseminating, consciously or unconsciously, the generative processes and imaginaries underlying design poetics. A dual place where architecture, in the making and thinking, shows itself. It is not just a working environment, indeed, but a place where attitudes and experiences crystallise in spaces that often turn out to be true personal collections, fragments of a discreet and authorial mosaic. Assuming the intrinsic relationship between studiolo and wunderkammer – between production and projection – the curatorial collection explores the atelier as crypto-exhibition space of architectural intentions. What kind of relationship does exist between a specific poetic and the organization of the place hosting its creation? What figures emerge, and through which media are they conveyed? The volume is a broader dowsing investigation into whether and how these spaces – in-between the personal and the public, and exposed to risky fetishistic perversions – can identify lateral practices of display in the contemporary world, contributing in reverse to the expansion of the architectural praxis itself.