Daniel Buitrago Carazo is a Costa Rican architect whose career has focused on integrating tropical modern architecture with innovation within his projects. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in 2019, with a specialization in the Tropical Architecture Studio.

He participated in the “Architecture: Climate Change” Congress in Pamplona in 2016. In 2019, he was part of a graduation seminar titled “Adaptation of Architecture to Climate Change: Data Projection and Energy Simulation of Two Scenarios for Public Buildings in Costa Rica.” The project was very well received in academic circles and led to his participation as a speaker at the 4th International Congress on Technological Innovation in Building (CITE) in 2019 in Madrid, Spain. That same year, he was also invited to present his research to students in the Master’s Program in Technological Innovation in Building (MITE) at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

His research was later published in DYNA, a scientific journal on multidisciplinary engineering indexed in the Science Citation Index and with a Journal Citation Reports (JCR) impact factor (2024), DYNA, 96(4), 347–350. https://revista-dyna.com/index.php/DYNA/article/view/366

In 2020, he founded his own studio, BUITRAGO Arquitectura, where he continues to develop projects focused on sustainability and architectural innovation.