Luis Caetano Pedro d Avila was born in Margao, Salcete, Goa. he was a distinctive student at the school of mathematics and did his further studies at the polytechnic school of Lisbon, the degree of civil engineering in Paris and the degree of architecture in Berlin. He was the member of the society of architecture of France and was the architect of the Royal house of Portugal, a knight of the orders of Christ and of Conception.