About Us

RAFAEL CASTRO MONTES de OCA

PRINCIPAL

Rafael Castro Montes de Oca Arquitectos (RCMdO) is a 8(a) & HUBZone certified and full service design practice that is dedicated to the development of urban design, architecture, interior architecture, and product design. Its founder, Rafael Castro Montes de Oca, AIA,LEED-AP, has more than 20 years of experience in the design, development, and administration of small and large projects on the public and private sector. His professional experience includes designing and participating in projects of great social importance in the Caribbean Region as well as serving as the Design Industry’s representative during the past 10 years through his leadership in the Colegio de Arquitectos y Arquitectos Paisajistas de Puerto Rico(Puerto Rico’s Architect’s and Landscape Architect’s Guild).

Based on the extensive experience of its founder and its associates, RCMdO embraces a wide design scope that encompasses everything from the creation of artifacts to the design of urban districts. Through a multi-disciplinary approach RCMdO creates responses to the programmatic needs of its clients by reacting to the project’s natural or built contexts, adapting to the economic reality of the client, and, transcending the purely pragmatic results by implementing a creative process that incorporates the client at various moments during the design’s development.