2024-2025 Forum Lecture Series

Speakers: Nicolas del Rio and Felipe Camus Dávila, Santiago, Chile

Free and open to the public

Presented by the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism

DRAA is an award-winning architecture practice founded in Chile by Nicolas del Rio in 2012. The office has worked from bases in Frutillar in Chile’s Lake District, in the Santiago studio led by Felipe Camus, and in collaboration with Matthias J Götz in Berlin.

DRAA stems from mountain architecture design as their first field of interest and area of work. Since then, the firm has expanded to other typologies such as private dwellings, museums, apartments, social housing, and interior design.

A typical day at the office includes conversations about efficiency, proportionality, structure, and beauty, involving the main classical tasks from a contemporary perspective.

About the Speakers

Nicolás Del Río is an architecture graduate of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has also studied at the Politecnico di Milano and holds an MSc in Sustainable Building from Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Felipe Camus Dávila is an architecture graduate of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.