Santiago Caprio is an architect, urban designer, scholar, educator and author, with a multidisciplinary training in Architecture, Built environment, Smart Cities, Design, Planning, Quality of Life, Heritage, Technology, Economics, Energy and Social Sciences. Currently, works as a Professor of Architectural Projects and Technology at the University of Buenos Aires (AR), Urban Design at the University of Palermo (AR), Art & Design at Politecnico di Milano (IT) and Energy & Cities at Prince of Songkla Thailand University (TH).

In 2018, Santiago Caprio and his team of ex-students, have won the Resilient Homes Design Challenge hosted by Build Academy, World Bank Group, United Nations Habitat, Airbnb and GFDRR, where more than 3200 architects and ingeneers of 130 country, have designs homes for desaster areas over the world.

Since the beginning of 2016 works as National Director of Real Estate and Infrastructure at the Ministry of Defense, of Argentine Republic. Up until recently, he was a Sustainability and Quality of Life Advisor at the Ministry of Urban Development, of Buenos Aires City, dedicated in increasing the International Relations and visibility across South America, Asia and Europe, reinforcing the Quality of Urban Habitat and good practices over the world.

Caprio’s career as a practicing architect includes work in area of urban design, hotel, retail, health, sport, interior yacht, commercial & residential, institutional, mobility and public space, making case to connect people with places through transit-oriented development and new pedestrianism.

For his capability to work independently, as coordinator or as part of various workgroups, allowed him to participate in numerous urban and tourism projects, contests, works of different scales such as masterplans, concepts. He had multiple international engagement in Thailand, Switzerland, Italy, Argentina, China, UK, Russia, Kuwait, Spain, Dubai, Chile, Canada, Iran, Uruguay, Azerbaijan, USA, Bahrain, Austria and others. These engagements are nourished with comprehensive and cross solutions, catalyzing various requirements of commitments with holistic approach that oversees economic and sustainable concept.

In his research, Professor Caprio studies the borderland between sociology, psychology, architecture, and planning aimed at understanding contemporary issues in architectural and urban transformations, such as city form, citizen & city users’ behavior, place attachment, attractiveness and accessibility, public space & public life, new forms of land consumerism, cities & climate change, emergency habitat and others.