As both architect, artist and researcher, his work spins around the studio practice and into the making, with regards to reconstruction, repetition and re-interpretation of an European pre-modern culture in regression. Diego Delas looks at certain vernacular architectural motifs –those related to storytelling and magical thinking- functioning as or embodying notions of a certain modernist drive.

Delas studied Architecture and Fine Arts in Madrid before moving to London to obtain a MA Painting at the Royal College of Art and a PhD at the Ruskin College of Art, University of Oxford while being honored to be beneficiary of prestigious grants and prizes such as the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Oxford. He was also shortlisted by Cervezas Alhambra Emergent Art Award, Paulo Cunha e Silva Prize, Generación, Award by Fundación Montemadrid, Madrid, Spain; Feria BARCU, Bogotá, Colombia, Lucy Halford Bursary, Windfall Bursary or RCA (HEFCE) for Royal College of Art, London.

Being exhibited internationally with solo and group shows, his work has also been acquisitioned by art collections like those of MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León, Montemadrid Foundation, DKV Collection, Kells Collection or Cervezas Alhambra Collection.