STUDIO CL
Studio CL is a boutique architecture practice based in Santiago de Chile and founded by Daniel Lazo and Gabriel Caceres in 2012.
ABOUT OUR DESIGN
We approach design as an editing process: a search for the essential elements involved in communicating an idea, from the conceptual to technical. It involves constant revising and excision of the dispensable. Because of this, our work is often painstakingly detailed, aiming not only for our design solutions to look simple, but to be simple in their manufacture. We strive for the skillful elegance of professional athletes, able to achieve multiple goals with a single movement. Our pursuit with this approach is a raw, abstract design quality. A sort of nakedness.
ABOUT OUR WORK
Our main interests lay within the realm of the city and urban life as a social construct: density as a tool for shaping it, public space as a place of social engagement and friction, public-private relationships and all the in-betweens. Santiago is an interesting case study for us in that sense, as it’s going through an accelerated process of change without a clear model for the city it wants to be, but with a lot of room for improvement. As a byproduct, our work is not bound to any specific architectural scale or niche.
Our projects range from large-scale mixed-use buildings, to single-family homes and apartment renovations.
ABOUT US
Gabriel Caceres (1979) graduated from the Architecture School of Universidad de Chile (2006), and has a Master of Architecture in Collective Housing from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (2009). He has taught at Universidad San Sebastian and Universidad Andres Bello.
Daniel Lazo (1981) graduated from the Architecture School of Universidad de Chile (2006). Since 2016 he teaches second year Architecture Design Studio at Universidad San Sebastian, and was Visiting Professor at Universidad de Chile between 2022 and 2024.
