Amancio D'Alpoim (Pancho) Miranda Guedes, born in 1925 in Lisbon, is one of the most fascinating architects and designers of the 20th century. His buildings and projects in remote Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), in Mozambique, culminated in a unique synthesis of Western 20th century architecture, including the works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis I. Kahn and Le Corbusier, and the tradition of South Africa. They are exemplary for an imagination which contains freedom and innovation and the productive enhancement of architecture, sculpture, painting and the exploration of earlier unknown possibilities.