Francisco de Paula Ramos de Azevedo (1851–1928) was a Brazilian architect known for designing many of São Paulo's landmarks, among them the Pinacoteca (1893). Born in São Paulo to a wealthy family from Campinas, he went to Ghent in Belgium in 1878 to study civil engineering but graduated in architecture in 1886, trained in classical design but drawn to eclecticism. Back in Brazil he began in Campinas, where he completed the cathedral, then designed houses for São Paulo's elite. He was a founder and director of the Polytechnic School, now part of the University of São Paulo, and directed the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios.
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The Theatro Municipal de São Paulo (1911), built from 1903 with the Italian architects Cláudio and Domiziano Rossi, opened on 12 September 1911. His office was hired in 1911 for the Palace of Justice of São Paulo (1933), modelled on the Palace of Justice in Rome; he supervised the work until his death, and Ricardo Severo and Arnaldo Dumont Villares finished it. The Municipal Market of São Paulo (1933) was likewise inaugurated after he died.
