Raquel Buj is an artist, fashion designer and architect. 
She is the founder and director of BUJ studio, an experimental design workshop. She conceives her studio as a laboratory in which to experiment with new materials, combining craftsmanship and technology in the development of her pieces. 
She designs body envelopes, second skins that are made with materials brought and reformulated from very diverse fields mixed with digital manufacturing and　biomaterials. Her work has received various awards and recognitions, including the Samsung Ego Innovation Project (2017) MBFWM award and the mention for Research and Design at the Ibero-American Design Biennial BID 19 (2019) or the IADE 2021 emerging design award. She combines her professional practice with her teaching practice as a professor of new materials in fashion at the URJC, the IED and the BAU and giving various workshops and talks nationally and internationally such as TEDxMadrid 19, Retrofuturo. She has been a jury at the RESHAPE Forum Barcelona 2019. Her pieces have been exhibited in various centers and galleries such as Casa Encendida 2020, Riu de Plaza de España 2021, Manuel Piña museum 2022 or Can U sustainable exhibition in Shanghai, China 2022. She has collaborated with various artists such as Janet Novás for Veranos de la Villa 2019 or the Stocos Institute for the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Her work has been published in various media such as Vogue, Yorokobu, El País, Neo2, Metal Magazine or A*desk. She has recently been awarded a art grant by the Academy of Spain in Rome 2022-2023.