A LDA
LDA is an architecture and urbanism firm that anticipates desirable futures, designing projects where people, nature, business, and territory operate as a single system.
Every LDA project delivers an expanded vision: it is not just a building, but an organism intended to improve people’s lives and the city’s logic.
Every LDA project delivers an expanded vision: it is not just a building, but an organism intended to improve people’s lives and the city’s logic.
OurPillars
- People & Nature
- The city is a living ecosystem.
- No decision ignores the body, time, climate, or resources.
- City as a Laboratory
- Each project is a real-world test for new ways of living, moving, and consuming.
- We think about infrastructure, neighborhoods, and flowsnot just lots and floor plans.
- Strategy & Business
- Architecture is a tool for results (ROI, flow, average ticket, occupancy).
- Design Thinking, AI, and behavioral analysis are core to our process.
- Cohesion & Responsibility
- Ethics in our relationship with clients, teams, construction, and the city.
- Transparency, justice, and respect as a method, not just a discourse.
OurValues
- Observe: Seeing what others miss (behavior, city, context).
- Listen: To clients, users, neighborhoods, and construction teams.
- Connect: Data, culture, technology, business, and nature.
- Experiment: Prototyping, testing, and iterating (Design Thinking and Scrum).
- Simplify: Process clarity, clean design, and accessible communication.
- Care: For resources, people, partners, and our team.
- Teach: Transforming knowledge into culture, not secrets.
Hiring LDA ensures that:
- The project is conceived as a complete system: Architecture + operation + city + future.
- Your investment makes sense: Efficient use of space, materials, and budget, avoiding rework and unnecessary expenses.
- Risks are mitigated: Planning, methodology, BIM, detailing, construction manuals, and stakeholder management.
- Human experience improves: Comfort, flow, accessibility, and identity.
- The city wins too: Solutions consistent with the surroundings, local culture, mobility, and the environment.
- You participate in the process: Co-creation, workshops, and clear communication materials (booklets, models, interactive visualizations).
LDA Manifesto
- We believe that architecture is not the object. It is a living relationship between people, nature, the city, and time. We design buildings as if we are designing futures.
Each line of a project answers a real question: How do people arrive? How do they feel? How does this place give back to the city and the world?
We work with method, technology, and imagination. From retail to housing, from design to the construction site, we connect business strategy, behavior, and culture.
Our commitment is simple and radical: To create projects that make sense today and remain responsible for tomorrow.
Lopes Dias.