about us

who we are


Following his vision to combine technically innovative and at the same sustainable solutions for a better quality of life in urban cities and neighborhoods, Mandu dos Santos Pintos set out in 2004 to found the enterprise mandu|architexture and urbanizm.
Since then his company has provided innovative solutions for challenges as diverse as the upgrading of informal settlements in Senegal and the development of green property labels in Switzerland.

With his interdisciplinary and international team mandu|architexture and urbanizm brings together a broad range of experiences from different sectors and countries that allow to cover the different aspects of complex urbanizm, architexture and eco innovation projects and services in different cultural contexts.

our team

  • Mandu dos Santos Pinto

    Chief Executive Officer / CEO

    Mandu dos Santos Pinto, the founder of mandu|architexture and urbanizm, is an expert for sustainable urban development and architecture.

    As an experienced project coordinator and specialist with ten years experience in this field he offers consulting for public and institutional clients, investors and building owners.

    From 2008 to 2012 he worked as scientific consultant for Novatlantis Bauforum ETH Zurich. Significant achievements/products of his work there were the construction management for the development of the “green property labels” of Credit Suisse and the evaluation tool for Sustainable Districts for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (BFE) and Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE).

    As CEO of mandu|architexture and urbanizm Mandu dos Santos Pinto has directed complex architexture, urbanizm and eco innovation projects in Senegal, Angola and Mozambique since 2004.

    His working languages are French, German, Portuguese, English, Italian and Spanish.

  • Edouard Diatta

    Senior Project Manager

    Edouard Diatta is an expert for facilitating and managing policy change in the social-environmental realm.

    As specialist for communication and policy dialogue with 15 years experience, he directed the ENDA division of Educational policy, Training and Educational Innovations and worked as supervisor for OXFAM America, EVE (Eau Vie Environnement) and ASDI (Senegales Organisation for Integrated Development). In this framework/role he was responsible for the political and strategic repositioning of ASDI in Senegal, the development of social-environmental tools for political decision-makers and stakeholders as well as the supervision of humanitarian aid projects in Senegal.

    Since 2013 he undertakes the coordination for different urbanizm projects of mandu|architexture and urbanizm, which includes the development of strategies for policy change for upgrading of informal settlements, the operational oversight of capacity building activities as well as the coordination of participatory processes.
    His working languages are Diola, French, English, Spanish and Wolof.

  • Alice Pozzoli

    Technical Project Manager

    Alice Pozzoli is an expert for geographical information science.

    With her indepth scientific knowledge and 10 years experience in technical analysis of spatial and geographical data, she …

    Her tools include GIS technology, GPS data and GeoGenius software, terrains and analytic photogrammetry, numeric cartography, model interfaces and sensitivity analysis .
    Her working languages are Italian, English, Portugese, French and Spanish.

  • Akos Lukacs

    XX Project Manager

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