It was fate that brought Rau and Rau together. Despite graduating from the same school only a second apart, they'd never met until years later when the attended the same architecture conference to hear keynote speaker and renowned architects Oscar Niemeyer talk about his practice of using reinforced concrete for purely aesthetic reasons. Rau leaned over to Rau at the conclusion of the talk and said, "I'd use reinforced concrete for purely aesthetic reasons, too, if I shared his propensity to exaggerate angular design." From that day, a friendship and partnership was born. They quickly identified the philosophies that would define their new firm, Rachanaa And Raynar Co.