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TECHNOL OGI CAL I NSTI TUTE OF THE PHI L I PPI NES
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Architecture Department

20 OF THE NOTABLE ARCHITECTS OF THE PHILIPPINES


In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the course
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Submitted by:
Lim, Karen F.AR32FA2

Date of submission:
February 22, 2013

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Leandro V. Locsin ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------3
Juan F. Nakpil ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5
Tomas Mapua----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7
Juan Marcos Arellano y de Guzmn -----------------------------------------------------------8
Ildefonso P. Santos, Jr. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------9
Luis Ma. G. Araneta--------------------------------------------------------------------------------11
Otilio Arellano---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11
Tomas Arguelles ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------12
Carlos D. Arguelles ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------13
Felipe Mendoza--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------14
Jose Ma. Zaragosa ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------15
Lor Calma --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------16
Federico Ilustre -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------16
Gabriel Formoso ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------17
Francisco Maosa ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------18
Juan Luna ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------18
Pablo Antonio ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------19
Antonio Toledo --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------20
Cesar Concio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------21
Dominic Galicia --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------21
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FILIPINO ARCHITECTS 60s TO 80s
Leandro V. Locsin (August 15, 1928 - November 15, 1994)
was a Filipino architect, artist, and interior designer, known for
his use of concrete, floating volume and simplistic design in his
various projects. An avid collector, he was fond of modern
painting and Chinese ceramics. He was proclaimed a National
Artist of the Philippines for Architecture in 1990 by President
Corazon C. Aquino.

Leandro V. Locsin was born on Aug 15, 1928 in Silay
City, Negros Occidental, a grandson of the first governor of the
province. He later studied at the De La Salle Brothers in 1935
before returning to Negros due to the Second World War. He
returned to Manila to study Pre-Law, before shifting to pursue
a Bachelor's Degree in Music at the University of Santo Tomas.
Although he was a talented pianist, he later shifted again to
Architecture, just a year before graduating. He was married to
Cecilia Yulo, to which he had two children, one of whom is also
an architect.
An art lover, he frequented the Philippine Art Gallery,
where he met the curator, Fernando Zobel de Ayala, who
recommended Locsin to the Ossorio family, who was planning to build a chapel in Negros.
Unfortunately, when Frederic Ossorio left for the United States, the plans for the chapel were
canceled. However, in 1955, then University of the Philippines, Diliman Catholic Chaplain, Fr. John
Delaney, S.J. commissioned Locsin to design a chapel that is open and can easily accommodate 1,000
people. The Church of the Holy Sacrifice is the first round chapel in the Philippines with the altar in the
middle, and the first to have a thin shell concrete dome. The floor of the church was designed by Arturo
Luz, the stations of the cross by Vicente Manansala and Ang Kiukok, and the cross by Napoleon Abueva,
all of whom are now National Artists. Alfredo L. Juinio served as the building's structural engineer.
Today, the church is recognized as a National Historical Landmark and a Cultural Treasure by the
National Historical Institute and the National Museum respectively.
In his visit to the United States, he met some of his influences, Paul Rudolph and Eero Saarinen.
It was then he realized to use concrete, which was relatively cheap in the Philippines and easy to form,
for his buildings. In 1969, he completed what is to be his most recognizable work, the Theater of
Performing Arts (Now the Tanghalang Pambansa) of the Cultural Center of the Philippines. The marble
faade of the building is cantilevered 12 meters from the terrace by huge arching columns at the sides of
the building, giving it the impression of floating. A large lagoon in front of the theatre mirrors the
building during daylight, while fountains are illuminated by underwater lights by nighttime. The building
houses four theaters, a museum of ethnographic and other temporary exhibits, galleries, and a library
on Philippine art and culture. In 1974, Locsin designed the Folk Arts Theater, which is one of the largest
single span buildings in the Philippines with a span of 60 meters. It was completed in only seventy-seven
days, in time for the Miss Universe Pageant. Locsin was also commissioned to build the Philippine
International Convention Center, the country's premiere international conference building and the seat
of the Vice Presidency.
In 1974, he was commissioned to design the Ayala Museum, which housed the Ayala's art
collection. It was known for the juxtaposition of huge blocks to facilitate the interior of the exhibition.
Locsin was a close friend of the Ayalas. Before taking the board examination, he took his apprenticeship
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at Ayala and Company (Now the Ayala Corporation) and was even asked to design the first building in
Ayala Avenue, and several of their residences. When the collection of the Ayala Museum was moved to
its current location, the original was demolished, with Locsin's permission. The current building was
dedicated in 2004, and was designed by the L. V. Locsin and Partners, led by Leandro Y. Locsin, Jr. Most
of Locsin's work has been inside the country, but in 1970, he designed the Philippine Pavilion of the
World Expo in Osaka, Japan. His largest single work is the Istana Nurul Iman, the official residence of the
Sultan of Brunei. It is the largest residential palace in the world and the largest single family residence
ever built. Locsin also designed some of the buildings at the UP Los Baos campus. The Dioscoro Umali
Hall, the main auditorium, is clearly an example of his distinct architecture, with its large canopy that
make it resemble the main theatre of the CCP. Most of his work is concentrated on the Freedom Park,
with the Student Union Building, once damaged by a fire, the Carillon, the Continuing Education Center
and the auditorium. He also designed UPLB's Main Library, SEARCA Residences, and several structures at
the National Arts Center (housing the Philippine High School for the Arts) situated at Mt. Makiling, Los
Baos, Laguna. In 1992, he received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize from Fukuoka City.
Locsin's last work, ironically, was also a church in Malaybalay, Bukidnon. Leandro V. Locsin died on Nov
15, 1994 in Makati City. The campus of De La Salle-Canlubang, built in 2003 on a land donated by his
family, was named after him.

Buildings

Cultural Center of the Philippines
Manila Hotel
Parish of the Holy Sacrifice
National Arts Center
Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Monastery of Transfiguration
Davao International Airport
St. Andrew the Apostle Church
Monterey Apartments
Philippine International Convention
Center
Philippine Center for International
Trade Expo
Philippine Pavilion 1970, Osaka
Magallanes Church
Benguet Center
Folk Arts Theater
Philippine Plaza Hotel
Ayala Museum (old)
Ayala Tower One
L.V. Locsin Building
InterContinental Manila
Makati Stock Exchange Building
Ninoy Aquino International Airport
Terminal 1
Hyatt Regency Hotel
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Juan F. Nakpil was a Filipino architect, teacher and a community
leader.
He was born on May 26, 1899, the eldest child of Philippine
Revolution veterans Julio Nakpil and Gregoria de Jesus (who
married the former after the death of her first husband Andrs
Bonifacio).
He finished his high school at the Manila High School on
1917
He then took Civil Engineering at the University of the
Philippines, Diliman
While at UP Diliman, he took freehand drawing, painting,
and decorative arts under Fabian de la Rosa and Fernando
Amorsolo. He also took sculpture under Maestro Ocampo
After two years in UP Diliman, he went to the United States
to finish his degree despite the disapproval of his parents. It was
told that he pawned his watch for a steerage ticket to the US
He attended University of Kansas where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in
1922
In 1925, he went to France and took Architecture at the Fountainbleau School of Fine Arts
He then took his Masters Degree in architecture at the Harvard University under the Joseph
Evelynth fellowship
When he got back in the Philippines in 1926, he became an assistant architect of the Bureau of
Public Works
He eventually worked with Andres Luna de San Pedro (son of Juan Luna) and was part in the
design of the Luis-Perez-Samanlilio Building. Two years later he bacame a Junior Partner of the firm
Among Nakpil's famous projects under Luna were the Perez-Samanillo building, the Crystal
Arcade and residences like those of Jacobo and Alfonso Zobel.
Nakpil also worked for Gonzalo Puyat and Sons as a furniture designer from 1928 to 1931.
He eventually started his firm in 1930. At this time he also began teaching. He joined the Mapua
Institute of Technology from 1927 to 1931, teaching history of architecture, theory of architecture and
design for the junior and senior years.
In 1931 to 1938 he taught at the University of Sto. Tomas College of Architecture. He helped
educate a generation of architects, such that during a certain period, all six deans of architecture of
different schools had been his students.
In 1933, he had established with other top architects the Philippine Architects Society (later
renamed Philippine Institute of Architects) and served as its first president
In 1941, Nakpil founded the Philippine College of Design with many of the leading architects like
Andres Luna de San Pedro, Juan Arellano, Pablo Antonio and others, until World War II interrupted this
project
After his sons Ariston, Francisco, and Eulogio graduated, Nakpil established Juan F. Nakpil &
Sons in 1953
Nakpil proposed concept for the Greenhills Shopping Center, modern in every aspect and suited
to local conditions. The concept included a supermarket, a movie house, variety stores, a bowling alley,
service shops and restaurants
Juan Nakpil died on May 7, 1986 at the age of 87 and he was burried at the Libingan ng mga
Bayani
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The wife of Juan F. Nakpil was Anita Agoncillo Noble of Batangas, who had been crowned the
first Miss Philippines in 1926


Awards
Architect of the Year, 1939, 1940, 1946
Philippine Institute of Architects Gold
Medal of Merit Award, 1950
Most Outstanding Professional in
Architecture, 1951 (from the Philippine
Association of Board Examiners)
Honorary correspondent member ng
Societe de Architectes par le
Gouvernement Francais, 1952
Chevalier de la legion d'Honneur, 1955
Presidential Medal of Merit from
President Ramon Magsaysay, 1955
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan
Award, 1968
Republic Cultural Heritage Award, 1971
Rizal Pro Patria Award, 1972
The first National Artists for
Architecture, 1973
Dean of Filipino Architects. 1973

Buildings
Luis-Perez-Samanlilio Building
Quiapo Church
Quezon Hall, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Capitol Theater
Avenue Theatre
Philippine Trust Co. Building
State Theater
Manila Jockey Club
Gonzalez Hall, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Carillon Tower
Rizal Theater
Nakpil-Bautista Pylon
Philippine Village Hotel
Social Security System Building


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Tomas Mapua holds the distinction of being the first registered
Architect of the Philippines
He first studied in the Ateneo de Manila and Liceo de Manila for his
elementary education
He was sent to the United States to study in Boones Preparatory
School and finally finishing Architecture in Cornell University in 1911
He was one of the four pensionados in Architecture with Juan
Arellano, Carlos Barreto and Antonio Toledo
He started his career as a draftsman in the Bureau of Public Works
He practiced privately in 1916 and formed his own construction firm. Two years later he was
recalled to the BPW and stayed there as a supervising architect until 1927. He retired from practice after
that
He was a known civic leader in Manila. He once became a councilor of Manila
He founded what is to become the Philippines top Architecture and Engineering school, the
Mapua Institute of Technology.
MIT is arguably Tomas Mapua's greatest contribution to Philippine Architecture, whose famous
alumni includes Federico Ilustre, Lor Calma, and other luminaries of Modern Filipino Architecture
He also founded the first Architectural Association in the Philippines, the Philippine Institute of
Architects
Trained in the Beaux Arts maxim like his fellow pensionados, he practiced to fulfill Daniel
Burnhams plans of Manila in the neoclassical design
In his later years, he mixed the details of Neoclassical designs with Art Deco like his design for
the Centro Escolar University
He also mixed Neoclassical with Modernist principles in the design of the Intramuros Campus of
Mapua Institute of Technology

AWARDS
Philippine Institute of Architects Gold Medal of Merit, 1954
PatnubayngSining at Kalinangan, 1964
Buildings
Librada Avelino Hall, Centro Escolar University
J. Mapua Memorial Hall, Mapua Institute of Technology
Pier 7
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Juan Marcos Arellano y de Guzmn (April 25, 1888 - December
5, 1960), or Juan M. Arellano, was a Filipino architect, best known
for Manila's Metropolitan Theater (1935), Legislative Building
(1926), now houses the National Museum of the Philippines), the
Manila Central Post Office Building (1926), the Cebu Provincial
Capitol (1937), the Bank of the Philippine Islands Cebu Main Branch
(1940), and the Jones Bridge.

Juan M. Arellano was born on April 25, 1888 in Tondo Manila,
Philippines to Luis C. Arellano and Bartola de Guzmn. Arellano married Naty Ocampo on May 15, 1915.
They had one son, Oscar. He died at the age of 72 on December 5, 1960.
He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and graduated in 1908. His first passion was
painting and he trained under Lorenzo Guerrero, Toribio Antillon, and Fabian de la Rosa. However, he
pursued architecture and was sent to the United States as one of the first pensionados in architecture,
after Carlos Barreto, who was sent to the Drexel Institute in 1908, Antonio Toledo, who went to Ohio
State, and Toms Mapa, who went to Cornell.
Arellano went to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1911 and subsequently
transferred to Drexel to finish his bachelor's degree in Architecture. He was trained in the Beaux Arts
and subsequently went to work for George B. Post & Sons in New York City, where he worked for
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
He then returned to the Philippines to begin a practice with his brother, Arcadio. He later joined
the Bureau of Public Works just as the last American architects, George Fenhagen and Ralph H. Doane,
were leaving. He and Toms Mapa were then named as supervising architects. In 1927, he took a study
leave and went to the United States where he was greatly influenced by Art Deco architecture.
In 1930, he returned to Manila and designed the Manila Metropolitan Theater, which was then
considered controversially moderne. He also continued to act as a consulting architect for the Bureau of
Public Works where he oversaw the production of the Manila's first zoning plan. In 1940, he and Harry
Frost created a design for Quezon City, which was to become the new capital of the Philippines.
It was during that time that he also designed the building that would house the United States
High Commission to the Philippines, later the Embassy of the United States in Manila. He designed a
demesne along the edge of Manila Bay, which featured a revival-style mansion that took advantage of
the seaside vista. The Americans instead opted for a federal-style building that ended up overpriced and
uncomfortable.
During World War II, the Legislative Building and Jones Bridge, were totally destroyed and the
Manila Central Post Office Building was severely damaged. While these structures were all
reconstructed, his original designs were not followed and were considered poor replications.
Arellano retired in 1956 and went back to painting. In 1960, he exhibited his work at the Manila YMCA.
Buildings
Manila Central Post Office
Manila Metropolitan Theater
National Museum of the Philippines
Jaro Municipal Building
Center for West Visayan Studies and
Museum, UP Visayas
Cebu Provincial Capitol
Jones Bridge
Malcolm Hall, University of the
Philippines, Diliman

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Ildefonso P. Santos, Jr., FPALA, ASLA, IFLA, PIEP, pioneered the
landscape architectural profession in the Philippines. He was
instrumental in the establishment of the Specialty Board of
Landscape Architecture at the Professional Regulation Commission
(PRC) of the Philippines. He attended the University of Santo Tomas,
where he received Bachelor of Science Degree in Architecture in
1954. Not content with his newly acquired degree, he aspired to
enrich his architectural background by enrolling at the prestigious
University of Southern California School of Architecture where he
obtained his second Bachelor of Architecture degree and his Industrial Design degree in 1956, and later,
a Master of Architecture Degree in 1960.

While working for his architectural degrees at the university of southern California, he joined the firm of
Ralph d. Cornell in 1955 and went to work for Cornell, bringers and trolled when it became a
partnership.

He gained valuable experience during his nine-year stint at the landscape architectural office of Cornell,
bringers, and troller. His last project with the well-known firm was the famous los angeles music center,
which he designed before returning to the Philippines.

He was appointed professorial lecturer in landscape architecture at the university of the philippines in
1964 and continued to hold this position until his appointment as full professor in 1991. From october,
1965 to september, 1996, he was the landscape architectural consultant for the office of the u.p.
campus planning.
Santos has been a member of the American society of landscape architects since 1963. He is also a
member of other association like the american horticultural society, southern California horticultural
institute, American institute of urban and regional affairs, asean association for planning and housing. In
July 17, 1997 he joined the Philippine institute of environmental planners, where he was exempted from
taking the environmental planners board examination by the Philippine regulation commission (PRC).

He was the president of the Philippines association of landscape architects (pala) from 1977-1984. In
1985, he was awarded the plaque of appreciation for his outstanding achievement and became a fellow,
the highest honor the pala can bestow.

He returned to the university of the Philippines as head of the landscape architectural program for
undergraduate and graduate school after his stint as a member of the board of examiners for landscape
architects from 1983-1986. In June 1991, he became a full professor.

He was awarded the outstanding professional for landscape architecture in 1993 by the Philippine
regulation commission. Last December 12, 1997, his unparalleled professional service for the past 15
years was honored by the united architects of the Philippines (uap). He was given on march 11, 1998, a
parangal ng bayan award by the national consumers council for having excelled in the field of
landscape architecture.
For Ildefonso P. Santos' outstanding landscape architecture work on Nayong Pilipino, he was given two
awards. The first award was conferred on him on November 19, 1969 by the former first lady of the
Philippines mrs. Imelda r. Marcos and the other Plake ng Karangalan by the Nayong Pilipino
Foundation, Inc. In 1980. In 1971, he was selected one of the top 12 outstanding Makati residents.
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Following that year, he was given Manilas highest cultural award for being a Patnubay ng Kalinangan
during the Araw ng Maynila celebration.
On June 09, 2006, he was awarded as national artist for his outstanding achievement in architecture and
allied arts by malacanang, cultural center of the Philippines, and national commission for culture and
arts.
Buildings
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Manila Hotel
San Miguel Corporation Building
Nayong Pilipino
Paco Church
Rizal Park
Loyola Memorial Park
Tagaytay Highlands Golf and Country Club
The Orchard Golf and Country Club
Magallanes Church
Asian Institute of Management

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Luis Ma. G. Araneta
Buildings
Times Theatre
Makati Medical Center
Araneta-Tuason Building





Otilio Arellano
Born in Manila on 1916, Otilio Arellano is the son of Arcadio Arellano
and the nephew of Juan Arellano
He rose into the Architectural Profession during the 50s to 60s,
becoming the one of the architects representing the Philippines in
some International Expositions
He was also chosen by Imelda Marcos to restore the Metropolitan
Theater, his uncles Art Deco masterpiece
He died in a fire that razed their ancestral home in San Juan in May 13,
1981
He was one of the first architects of the postwar generation that looked into the native symbols of the
Philippines for inspiration for his architectural designs though he worked into the modernist approach
His nativist orientation could be manifested in his salakot-roofed Philippine Pavilion in the 1964 World
Exposition and gateway of the Wallace field during the 1953 Philippines International Fair
Awards
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan, 1970
PRC Outstanding Architect of the Year, 1977
Buildings
National Bureau of Investigations
Philippine Pavilion 1964, New York

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Tomas Arguelles started his
career in Engineering during the
last years of the Spanish Period
He was an inspector of roads for
the Street Car company from
1884 to 1892 and the Manila
Railroad Company from 1892-
1896

During the Philippine Revolution, he became a commander of the main body of Filipino
Engineers in the Revolutionary Army
After the Revolution, he became a councilor of Manila, a position he held from 1902-1907 and reelected
from 1917-1919
Due to the Engineers and Architects Law of 1921, he was allowed to practice as an
Architect because of his experience as a Maestro de Obras in the Spanish Period
He became a senior partner in the firm Arguelles and Magsaysay and later formed a partnership with
Fernando Ocampo
In 1950, he was elected fellow of the Philippine Institute of Architects
Likewise he is also a member of the Board of Directors of Arquitectura y Agrimensura de Filipinas, the
first professional organization of Architects and Engineers founded in 1902
He practiced at the time where Art Deco is also getting popular in Manila, popular enough to
challenge the dominance of the Neoclassic and Beaux Arts


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Carlos D. Arguelles
His pioneering efforts in Filipino architecture are
concretized in the design of buildings, subdivisions and community
plans that are suited to Philippine conditions. His designs have a
distinct international style which must have been honed during his
schooldays in the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and later at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained his
Bachelor in Architecture in 1941 and Masterate in Architecture in
1946.
Fresh from his studies abroad, he served as a professor in Design at the UST College of
Architecture and Fine Arts. His remarkable achievements and performance in the college paved the way
for his appointment as Dean of the UST College of Architecture and Fine Arts from 1954 to 1959. In
1973, he became a Trustee of the International School and a year later, a trustee of OB Montessori
Center Inc, as well.
He was able to strike a balance between his academic life and professional practice. Some of the
edifices attributed to him are the Philamlilfe Building in UN Avenue, DBP Building in Makati, the
Philippine National Bank Building in Escolta, Manila Hilton and Holiday Inn.
For his involvement with a number of professional societies such as the American Institute of Architects
and the Philippine Institute of Architects; socio-civic and religious organizations such as Rotary Chamber
of Manila, Philippine Motor Association, Men of the Sacred Heart of the Sanctuario de San Antonio
Parish and his contributions to the growth of Philippine architecture, he was a recipient of the Papal
Award "Pro Ecclesiae et Pontifice" in 1996; "Centennial Honors for the Arts" from the Cultural Center of
the Philippines in 1999: and recently the "Thomasian Centennial Award" from the University of Santo
Tomas.
It can be said that Arch. Carlos Arguelles has, indeed, contributed immensely to the emergence
of contemporary Philippine architecture

Buildings
Philippine National Bank, Escolta
Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company
Aglipayan Church
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Philam Life Building

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Felipe Mendoza
Aside from being an architect, Felipe Mendoza was also an
Physical Planner
He formed a partnership with Gabino de Leon and Homero
Ingles but formed his own architectural firm in 1951
His work includes original and innovative examples of many
different building types, including offices, churches, schools, hotels,
and transportation terminal (air and sea)
But his prime architectural output remains to be the
Batasang Pambansa, currently the house of the Philippine House of Representatives

AWARDS
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan, 1976
UAP Likha Award, 1982
PRC Outstanding Architect of the Year, 1982

Buildings
Batasang Pambansa
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Development Academy of the Philippines
Philippine Veterans Bank

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Jose Ma. Zaragosa was born in Quiapo in 1912
He was born into a family with a tradition in the arts
He was educated in the University of Santo Tomas where he
graduated in 1936 and was granted the license to practice in 1938,
to become the countrys 82ndlicensed architect
He is one of the first Philippine-educated Filipino architects
He represented the Philippines ininternational conferences on
Architecture; sometimes he is the only Asian present in those
occasions
He was invited to Rome for the International Institute of Liturgical Art andArchitecture for the
changes in standards in the design of churches. He was also invited in Brazil for the design of Brazils
new capital, Brasilia
In his lifetime, he met some important architects who shaped modern architecture like Frank
Lloyd Wright, Lucio Costa, andOscar Niemeyer, all of whom further enriched his aesthetic
His works translates designs made for the glory of God and Man
He cemented his status as a designer for churches, most notably the Sto. Domingo Church in
Quezon City, which still is one of the largest churches in the country
His earliest works present the richnessof Filipino-Hispanic Architecture in the simplicity and functionality
of modern architecture
His exposure to the modern architecture later set his designs more modern like the Virra Mall
and the Commercial Bank and Trust Company

AWARDS
Philippine Institute of Architects Gold Medal of Merit, 1977
PatnubayngSining at Kalinangan, 1973

Buildings
Meralco Building
Commercial Bank and Trust Company Building
National Library of the Philippines
Sto. Domingo Church (New)
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal National Shrine

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Lor Calma studied Architecture in Mapua, but even before he
finished he was tapped by the Aguinaldos Department Store
His experience at Aguinaldos Department Store enabled him to
discover a method to join furniture pieces which will also be used to
larger structures
He was chosen to be assigned in the factory to study the
details of imported furnitures, this caused him to concentrate more
in furniture design before in Architecture
In 1962, he was called by Agustin Gamboa and Agustin
Cancio to help design the interiors of the New Manila International Airport by Federico Ilustre. After this,
a partnership between Cancio and Calma in interior and furniture design was forged and the first school
in Interior design was established, the Philippine School of Interior Design
Lor Calma was one of the pioneers of modern interior design
All of Calma's furniture designed during the 50s and 60s are still valuable until now

Buildings
Asian Development Bank
De La Salle - College of St. Benilde, School of Design & Arts Building


Federico Ilustre graduated from Mapua Institute of Technology
He passed his licensure examinations in 1937
He started his career as a draftsman for Juan Nakpil in 1935 and
for Puyat and Sons in 1936 until war broke out
After the war, he joined AFWESPAC (Armed Forces West
Pacific) of the US Army to assist in the infrastructural aspect of
rehabilitation
In 1947,he assumed the position as supervising architect for
the National Housing Commission
In 1949,he entered Bureau of Public Works as Supervising Architect
In 1954, he was appointed to be Consulting Architect following the retirement of Antonio Toledo. He
held this position until the 1970s
Federico Ilustre is best remembered for winning the National Contest for the design of the
Quezon Memorial Monument in Quezon City in 1951
He is also credited with the original design of the Legislative Center in the Constitution hills, but it was
never constructed due to funding problems
Ilustre's career saw the transition of Civic Architecture from its colonial phase in the twilight
years of colonial rule in the Philippines until the development of a separate Filipino Modern
Architecture, from its modernist phase to its neo-vernacular phase
This is manifested in his designs when some elements and proportioning from the classical is
mixed with the functionality of modern buildings to produce a cross of the best architectural properties
of the two
Buildings
Old GSIS Building
Philippine College of Commerce
Manila International Airport
Quezon Memorial Monument
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Gabriel Formoso started his career in the 1950s and by the
1960s, he was already successful and became the most popular
architect of the residences of the posh Makati villages
Aside from being an architect he was also one of the people
selected by Manila Mayor Antonio Villegas in 1963 to the planning
and working committee for the future Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng
Maynila
In his career spanning 4 decades, he has designed more
than a hundred residences, a number of hotels, commercial and
industrial centers and clubs, including the iconic Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Complex in Roxas Boulevard
He mostly designed his buildings in the modernist fervor, with himself describing his work as the
embodiment of "honesty of conception and the principled concern for human requirements
transcending the irrelevancies of prejudice and instinct"
He focused more on volumetric manipulations, thus his works are more functional and simplistic
than excessively decorated
Formosos residential designs are seen with masculine looking adobe walls and bold-line fascias in his
own distinct treatment. These concepts along with the open plan layout became the trademark of
Formosos designs.
In December 20, 1973, Formoso formed GF and Partners, Architects, a professional partnership
composed of committed architects. The firm combines aesthetic, technical, and economic aspects of
design with human and functional considerations

AWARDS
PRC Outstanding Architect of the Year, 1979
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan, 1977
Republic Cultural Heritage Awards, 1973
United Architects of the Philippines Likha Award, 1990

Buildings
La Tondena Building
G.T. International Tower
Asian Institute of Management
The Peninsula Manila
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

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Francisco Maosa is a Filipino architect and national artist noted
for his Filipino inspired architectural designs, i.e. The Coconut
Palace.
Manosa, on May, 2008 built his own Ayala alabang village
Bahay Kubo mansion. With only 3 posts or "haligi", it has 5 one-inch
coconut shell doors, 2nd floor, a "silong", Muslim room, sala, and
master's bedroom with a fish pond therein.
He was proclaimed a National Artist of the Philippines for
Architecture in 2009 by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Buildings
Coconut Palace
San Miguel Corporation Building


Juan Luna
Of course, we all know Juan Luna is one of the greatest
painters in the turn of the century Philippines. Of course, Juan Luna
is the renowned painter of Spoliarium.
Unknown or known to all, he has a son. And his son is also
an important figure in Philippine History, especially in the field of
Arts, where his father also excelled. But his contribution to the Arts
is more felt in Architecture.
Andres Luna de San Pedro is the son of Juan Luna to Paz
Pardo de Tavera. Born in Paris, he set foot in the Philippines with his father and uncle, the great Antonio
Luna. He was taught painting in Manilas School of Arts.
He first got attention as a painter in Hanoi where he won special mention. He won silver medal
in the St. Louis Exposition and another in a contest held by the Exposition of the Society of Artist in
Manila (1908).
He studied Arts in Europe where he got a diploma in 1911 and went on to study Architecture
and finished in 1918. Upon his return to Manila, the city government appointed him the chief Architect,
a position he held from 1920 to 1924.
If the CCP Complex is a virtual Locsin Compendium, then Escolta is Lunas territory. Luna
designed the Parisian Regina Building, Art deco Perez - Samanillo building and the revivalist Crystal
Arcade that was the first office of the Manila Stock Exchange. Only the Crystal Arcade did not survive the
war.
Aside from the Escolta Buildings, he also designed the Legarda Elementary School in Sampaloc
Manila the Rafael Fernandez house in Arlegui that became the office of President Cory Aquino and the
Saint Vincent de Paul Church in San Marcelino.
Andres Luna is Juan Lunas Son. But instead of being merely Juan Lunas son, he went on to
became a distinguished person on his own.

Buildings
Luis-Perez-Samanlilio Building
Manila Hotel
Crystal Arcade
Legarda Elementary School
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Pablo Antonio was born on January 25, 1901, in Binondo, Manila
He was orphaned by the age of 12, and had to work in the daytime
in order to finish his high school education at night.
He studied architecture at the Mapua Institute of Technology but
dropped out of school in order to assist in the design and
construction of the Legislative Building (now the National Museum
of the Philippines).
Ramon Arevalo, the engineer in charge of the Legislative
Building project, funded Antonio's education at the University of
London. He completed a five-year architecture course in three years, graduating in 1927
Antonio first came into prominence in 1933 with the construction of the Ideal Theater along Avenida
Rizal in Manila.
Apart from the Ideal Theater, Antonio also designed several other theaters in Manila, including
the Life Theater, the Scala Theater, the Lyric Theater, and the Galaxy Theater. As of 2008, only the
Galaxy Theater remains standing, though it is threatened with demolition
His work caught the eye of the founder of the Far Eastern University in Manila, Nicanor Reyes,
Sr., who was looking to build a school campus that was modern in style. Between 1938 to 1950, he
designed several buildings on the university campus in the Art Deco style.
The FEU campus is considered as the largest ensemble of surviving Art Deco architecture in
Manila, and in 2005, it received an Honorable Mention citation from the UNESCO for the body's 2005
Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation.
Antonio's architecture and its adoption of Art Deco techniques was radical for its day,
neoclassicism being the dominant motif of Philippine architecture when he began his career
He was cited taking taking Philippine architecture into a new direction, with "clean lines, plain surfaces,
and bold rectangular masses."
Antonio strived to make each building unique, avoiding obvious trademarks
Antonio died in Manila, Philippines on June 14, 1975 due to health reasons. The cause of his death is still
not mentioned until after he died a pioneer of modern Philippine architecture, he was recognized in
some quarters as the foremost Filipino modernist architect of his time

AWARDS
He was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the Philippines by President Ferdinand
Marcos in 1976.
QUOTES
"Buildings should be planned with austerity in mind and its stability forever as the aim of true
architecture, that buildings must be progressive, simple in design but dignified, true to a purpose
without resorting to an applied set of aesthetics and should eternally recreate truth".
Buildings
Galaxy Theatre
Nicanor Reyes Hall, Far Eastern University
Life Theater
Ideal Theater

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Antonio Toledo
Along with Carlos Baretto, Juan Arellano, and Tomas Mapua,
Antonio Toledo was one of the first Pensionados for Architecture.
Antonio Toledo stood out as the youngest pensionado when he was
sent to the United States to study architecture at the age of sixteen.
He graduated with the Degree of Architecture at Ohio State
in 1911.
Being educated in the US East Coast, he was influenced
in the Neoclassical and Beaux Arts styles and his outputs leaned
towards these architectural designs, which are evident in all of his major works for the Bureau of Public
Works.
He started working for the Bureau of Public Works to work as a draftsman for William Parsons in
1911
He was promoted to supervising Architect in 1915 and became the Consulting Architect in
1938 until his retirement in 1954.
As the consulting Architect of the Bureau of Public Works that time, he was sent by the
government under President Roxas in a study mission to study the current trends in Architecture and
Engineering for the planning of the new Capital City.
He was one of the pioneer professors of Mapua Institute of Technology founded by his fellow
pensionado Tomas Mapua and taught there until 1967.
He made buildings for the Burnham Plan that evokes the Manifest Destiny maxim of America in
its colony in the Orient.
AWARD
Philippine Institute of Architects Gold Medal of Merit Award, 1961
Buildings
National Museum of the Philippines
Leyte Provincial Capitol
Manila City Hall
Bureau of Customs
Department of Tourism Building

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Cesar Concio is the first University Architect of the University of
the Philippines.
When the University transferred to Diliman from Padre
Faura in the late 1940s, Cesar Concio was tasked to continue what
Louis Croft has started.
He is also one of the architects selected by President Roxas
in 1947 to study the trends in Architecture and Engineering to
design the buildings of the Capital City, especially for his position as
the chief architect of the UP DilimanCampus. This mission enabled
him to meet the architect of Brasilias buildings, Oscar Niemeyer.
His meeting with Niemeyer in Brasilia exposes Niemeyers
influence on his designs, especially the parabolic Church of the
Risen Lord in the University of the Philippines, Diliman.
Niemeyer is best known for adopting modern architecture
to Brasilia by using adjustable brise soleil to moderate sunlight
entering the buildings. This sun shading technique is manifested in
Concio's design for the Mechor and Palma Hall in UP Diliman.
AWARDS
Philippine Institute of Architects Gold Medal of Merit, 1964
Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award, 1969
BUILDINGS
Church of the Risen Lord
Melchor Hall, University of the Philippines, Diliman
Insular Life Building
Baclaran Church
Palma Hall, University of the Philippines, Diliman

Dominic Galicia obtained his professional degree in architecture in
1988 from the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana,
where he was a Notre Dame Scholar. In June 2005, he received a
University of Notre Dame Distinguished Asian Pacific Alumni Award.
He also studied architecture for a year at Notre Dame's campus
in Rome, and pursued graduate studies in architecture at Pratt
Institute in New York. He is a licensed architect in both the
Philippines and New York State.
Although a modernist by philosophy, he is deeply concerned with the preservation of historic
architectural sites. He has served as Vice President of the Heritage Conservation Society, sits on its
Advisory Council, and represents it on the Executive Council of the National Committee on Monuments
and Sites (NCMS) of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), and on the Board of
Trustees of the Philippine Green Building Initiative (PGBI). He represents the Philippines in the
International Scientific Committee on Twentieth-century Heritage (ISC20C) of the International Council
on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), in which capacity he helped to develop BPO@Escolta, the public-
private initiative to revive Manilas historic downtown.
Building
Magallanes Church