About

Principal and founder, Emma Rees-Raaijmakers, brings to Atelier DAU over 25-years of varied practice working on residential design and urban initiatives. Her innate desire to connect and enrich people’s lives is bolstered by progressive collaborations with creatives and tenures in assorted international cities.

In 2020 Emma was listed by New York design platform Architizer, as one of 100 innovative women in architecture, helping to shape the future of the built environment - 100 Women to Watch in Architecture.

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Projects

An upbeat sense of enquiry informs Atelier DAU’s design philosophy and process. Ingenuity and strategic investigation are the driving principles that guide our design pursuits, in turn providing compelling outcomes that create positive change for our clients, are aesthetically coherent and above all are highly resourceful.

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Awards

Since launching in 2019, the studio’s design excellence has been recognised both nationally and internationally by prestigious design award initiatives including Dezeen and HOUSES. Most notably, it won an Architizer A+Award for a residential project in 2020 and was also invited to exhibit at the 2021 European Cultural Centre Biennale Architecture Exhibition in Venice.

We are open, collaborative and above all curious. We seek to work with those who share our philosophy.