Valerie Mavoungou

Valerie Mavoungou, originally from Congo-Brazzaville, is an architect and founder of Atelier Tropical, a Sub-Saharan architecture studio interested in engaging with modern, minimalist and neoregionalist African aesthetics.

She graduated from the Paris-Belleville-National-School of Architecture in 2012. Her design philosophy revolves around the creation of a fluid conversation between each natural environment and its architecture via the integration of local materiality and craft, to promote endemic know-how and to advocate for a responsible African Bioclimatic Design.