Ricardo de Ostos is co-founder of London based NaJa & deOstos, an architectural studio exploring symbiotic relations between emerging cultural patterns and architectural narratives. With a strong innovative digital design focus including popular participation they create an interactive architecture, in both small and large-scale projects, through critical and challenging speculation. NaJa & deOstos have run workshops and lectured widely in countries like Brazil, Russia, Korea, USA, Turkey, Lebanon and throughout Europe. Since 2012 they are involved in the development of the European Design Innovation Policy.

Ricardo de Ostos was appointed curator of the Brazilian Pavilion for the London Festival of Architecture in 2008 and 2010. He studied architecture at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and also holds a master of architecture degree from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, England.

Together with Nannette Jackowski, Ricardo de Ostos is a Unit Masters at the Architectural Association and at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. Ricardo de Ostos has also been an Associate Professor at the Ecole Special d’Architecture in Paris from 2009 till 2014. Together they are the authors of The Hanging Cemetery of Baghdad (Springer, 2007), Pamphlet Architecture 29: Ambiguous Spaces (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008) and Scavengers and Other Creatures in Promised Land (Architectural Association, late 2015).