Working in Angola

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COSTALOPES is a Luanda (Angola, West Africa) based architecture office, lead by Alexandre and Antonio Falcão Costa Lopes. Among architects, planners, engineers and designers, it operates within the fields of architecture, urbanism, landscape and interior design, ranging from large-scale developments and urban interventions to single-family houses.
In this text the architects present a straightforward and personal opinion about their experience as an Angolan architectural firm.