Nuno Craveiro Lopes (Lisbon, 1921 - Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, 1972) was a Portuguese architect whose work includes projects in Mozambique and Angola from the colonial period. He was the son of Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes, President of the Portuguese Republic, and Berta da Costa Ribeiro Artur. He married Albertina da Silveira Pinto of Rance and they had three children.

Lopes did military service in the Military Aviation School in Sintra. He became an ensign in 1941. He studied architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts (1945). He part of the Committee of the School of Youth MUD EBAL with Francisco Castro Rodrigues, José Dias Coelho, João Abel Manta, Lima de Freitas, Alfredo Antonio, M. Emily Cabrita, Jorge Vieira, Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, Croft de Moura, Sena da Silva, Arnaldo de Almeida Louro, Daisy Tengarrinha, Cecilia Ferreira Alves, Tomás de Figueiredo, Hestnes Raul Ferreira, and Augusto Sobral.

Nuno Craveiro Lopes

In the military he collaborated in the construction of the Campo de Santa Margarida. He also did some residential work.

Nuno Craveiro Lopes

He was posted to Lourenço Marques as Chief of the Office of Public Works Urbanization of Mozambique in 1952. He did work on the Santo António da Polana church in Lourenço Marques (Maputo), Mozambique and the Cambambe dam in the Kwanza river, Angola. He died of disease in 1972 at 51.

Nuno Craveiro Lopes

Work

Military Campo Santa Margherita

Set buildings on Avenue Brazil, Lisbon, Cambambe dam, Angola Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Chibuto, Mozambique Church of Polana, Lourenço Marques, Mozambique

References

1921 births

1972 deaths

Architects from Lisbon

20th-century Portuguese architects

Portuguese expatriates in Mozambique

Children of presidents