COVAR DESIGNS, INC.
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About
We are a Los Angeles based design-build firm focusing on modern residential structures. We envision and bring to reality elegant luxury dwellings for homeowners and developers alike. Working with a team of highly skilled engineers, builders, and other professionals, we manage and coordinate our client's projects to simplify the design, permitting, and building process. The result are stunning structures which stays true to their intended budget while maintaining an aesthetic appeal with attention to detail.
Paulo Cova
Principal Designer
Coming from a family of architects, I quickly discovered that my passion was also in architecture. While my parents sat at their drawing boards designing projects throughout the city, I would lay on the ground drawing and aspiring to do the same one day. As I grew, design and art became second nature and the world around became a giant drawing board. The feeling of creating something unique can't be beat by much, it is definitely one of my greatest drives.
Barbara Munoz
Project Manager
Although I have been inclined to the arts, I can't say other skills are irrelevant to me. I strongly believe that having a balanced and diverse knowledge of different fields will enrich the result of the architectural space, which in return, will be the most complete and adequate response to the situation. To me, design is the peak of human experiences and I believe spaces transmit us something intangible. That is what I aspire to create on every project.
Chris Centes
Project Manager
I grew up in a small city in the Midwest where my imagination was really tested as a young aspiring designer. Nature and open space was abundant all around me with little architectural inspiration. Most of the buildings and spaces around town looked the same. This made me understand how important design and architecture can be in elevating the experiences in our homes, our workplaces, and the places we go for entertainment. That is when I realized that I wanted to be part of designing the future cities of the world. I made it my goal to be the first in my family to graduate from college with a degree in Design- Architecture. Since then, I moved to Los Angeles to experience a whole new world that I was not as familiar with and now have committed myself to design for the future of an ever changing world.
David Leal
Project Manager
I grew up in Mérida, a small city in the Venezuelan Andes, surrounded by mountains steeped in history, legend, and imagination. That environment sparked in me, from an early age, a deep curiosity and a need to explore, create, and engage with the world.
Today, that same spirit shapes how I approach architecture. I believe in an architecture that transforms while respecting its context—one that teaches, connects, and resonates with people. For me, identity is always the starting point of any project.
I’m deeply committed to composition, the integrity of buildings, and the relationships between space, people, and the city. I see architecture as a dialogue: between place and purpose, past and future.
Milo
Office Therapist & Canine Advisor
Someone once told me that with great cuteness comes no responsibility, so I have set out to accomplish this as best I can. I am pretty much here to get fed, greet our guests, inspire and motivate my team of humans by getting attention from them, and remind them to think about other home owners like myself when they are designing new homes.
