Nuno Craveiro Lopes

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rdf:langString 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 (1945). He part of the Committee of the School of Youth MUD EBAL with , José Dias Coelho, João Abel Manta, Lima de Freitas, , , Jorge Vieira, Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, , , , , , , , and . In the military he collaborated in the construction of the Campo de Santa Margarida. He also did some residential work. 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.