Pablo Sebero Antonio (January 25, 1901 June 14, 1975)[1] was a Filipino architect.

A pioneer of
modern Philippine architecture,[2]he was recognized in some quarters as the foremost Filipino modernist
architect of his time. He was conferred the rank and title of National Artist of the
Philippines by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1976.

Antonio was born in Binondo, Manila in 1901. 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. [4] 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. 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.[3]
[5]
The FEU campus is considered as the largest ensemble of surviving Art Deco architecture in
Manila,[6] 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. [6]

Antonio also designed the White Cross Orphanage (1938) along Santolan Road in San Juan City, and
the Manila Polo Club (1950) inMakati City.[3] He likewise designed the Ramon Roces Publications
Building (now Guzman Institute of Electronics) in Soler Street in Manila, the Capitan Luis Gonzaga
Building, and the Boulevard-Alhambra (now called Bel-Air) Apartments Building in Roxas Boulevard
& where Manila Bay Hostel is located on the 4th floor, this Bel-Air Apartments is near T. M. Kalaw
Avenue & beside Miramar Hotel. Bel-Air Apartments building was designed by Pablo Santonio and
built in 1937.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.
Pablo Antonio died on June 14, 1975 in Manila, Philippines.

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), theManila Central Post Office Building (1926),the Central
Student Church (today know as the Central United Methodist Church, 1932) the Negros Occidental Provincial
Capitol (1936), the Cebu Provincial Capitol (1937), the Bank of the Philippine Islands Cebu Main Branch
(1940), Misamis Occidental Provincial Capitol Building (1935) 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 was married Naty Ocampo on May 15, 1915. He had three children,
Oscar, Juanita and Cesar.
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.
[1]
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 toOhio 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 theBeaux Arts and
subsequently went to work for George B. Post & Sons in New York City, where he worked
for Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.[2]

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 Bulacan Provincial Capitol,Manila Metropolitan
Theater, which was then considered controversially moderne.[3] He 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 forQuezon City, which was to become the
new capital of the Philippines.

Bulacan Provincial Capitol in Malolos City built in 1930 designed by Juan Arellano

It was during that time that he designed the building that would house the United States High
Commission to the Philippines, later theEmbassy of the United States in Manila. He designed
a demesne along the edge of Manila Bay, which featured a mission revival stylemansion that took
advantage of the seaside vista.[4] 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 Post
Office Building was severely damaged. While these structures were all reconstructed, his original
designs were not followed and were considered poor replications.[5]

Arellano retired in 1956 and went back to painting. In 1960, he exhibited his work at the
Manila YMCA.

He died at the age of 72 on December 5, 1960.

Carlos D. Arguelles (September 15, 1917 - August 19, 2008) was a Filipino architect who was known for
being a leading proponent of the International Style of architecture in the Philippines in the 1960s.

Born in Manila, he was the fifth son of Tomas Arguelles, a known pre-war Filipino architect, and
Carmen Corcuera. Carlos followed in his father's footsteps and graduated in 1940 from the
architecture program in the University of Santo Tomas. He continued his studies at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology where he earned his bachelor's degree in architecture in 1941.[1]
The outbreak of World War II interrupted his masteral studies as he enlisted in the army, eventually
assigned to be alongside Manuel Quezon and the Philippine Commonwealthgovernment-in-exile
in Washington, D.C. and as an intelligence officer under General Chuck Parsons in Australia. He
returned to MIT after the war to complete his master's degree in architecture, which he obtained in
1946.[2]
Arguelles returned to the Philippines in 1949 and began his architecture career in the country as an
associate of Gines Rivera, the architect behind the planning of the Ateneo de Manila
University campus being built at that time in Loyola Heights in Quezon City. He also began teaching
at the UST College of Architecture and served as its dean from 1953 to 1959.[3]
Arguellles first came into prominence in Philippine architecture thanks to his role as chief architect
of Philamlife Homes in Quezon City, the first gated community in the country, as he designed many of
the bungalow houses which were suited to the Filipino middle-class lifestyle. He would then move on
to design other notable landmarks, including Philamlife's headquarters in Ermita in 1962 and the
Manila Hilton right across it in 1968.

He was also involved with a number of professional societies such as the American Institute of
Architects and the Philippine Institute of Architects, as well as 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. He was a recipient of the prestigious Gold Medal of Merit by
the Philippine Institute of Architects in 1988, the Papal Award "Pro Ecclesiae et Pontifice" in 1996;
"Centennial Honors for the Arts" from theCultural Center of the Philippines in 1999.[4]

Philamlife Homes, Quezon City

Philamlife Building, Manila

Manila Hilton (now Manila Pavilion) Hotel, Manila

Development Bank of the Philippines Building, Makati

Philippine National Bank Building, Manila

Manilabank Building, (Now VGP Center) Makati

Solid Bank Building, (now PSBank Tower) Makati

Cathedral of the Holy Child, (IFI National Cathedral) Manila

Magallanes Theater, Makati (now demolished)

International Rice Research Institute Building, Los Baos, Laguna

Roberto "Bobby" Chabet (March 29, 1937 - April 30, 2013) was an artist from the Philippines and widely
acknowledged as the father of Philippine conceptual art.

Chabet studied architecture at the University of Santo Tomas where he graduated in 1961. He had his
first solo exhibition at the Luz Gallery in the same year. He was the founding museum director of the
Cultural Center of the Philippines and served there as curator from 19671970. He initiated the first
13 Artists Awards, giving recognition to young artists whose works 'show a recentness, a turning away
from the past and familiar modes of art-making'.
He led the 1970s conceptual art group called Shop 6 and taught for over 30 years at the UP College of
Fine Arts, where he espoused an art practice that gave precedence to idea over form. Since the 1970s,
he has been organizing landmark exhibitions featuring works by young artists.
Chabet described his pieces as "creatures of memory" and himself as their "custodian." His works are
the result of a process of unraveling of fixed notions about art and meaning. Highly allegorical, his
drawings, collages, sculptures and installations question modernity. His works are meditations on
space, the transitory nature of commonplace objects and the collisions that occur with their
displacement.
Prolific and multifaceted, Chabet ventured into architecture, painting, printmaking, sculpture, stage
designing, teaching, photography and writing.

Chabet has had six individual exhibitions at The Luz Gallery since 1961 and has been an active
participant in local group shows. Represented in the collections of the National Museum, Ateneo Art
Gallery, Cultural Center, and several private collections.
Galleria Duemila showed drawings from Chabet's early period in an exhibition entitled "Selected
Chabet Drawings 60s-70s" at its gallery in May 2004.
He was the recipient of the 1972 Republic Cultural Heritage Award, the 1972 Araw ng Maynila Award
for the Visual Arts, and the 1998 Centennial Honor for the Arts.
Chabet died due to cardiac arrest at the UERM Hospital in Sta. Mesa, Manila. He was 76.
According to relatives, Chabet was brought to the hospital on Monday because of chills and a high
fever. He suffered a first heart attack at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, was revived, and died of a second attack at
7:30 p.m. the same day.
Chabet was single and had no children. He is survived by an elder sister, Carmen Mesina, and a
younger sister Milagros Garcia. His remains will be brought to the Arlington Memorial Chapels in
Araneta Avenue, Quezon City on May 1.

Daniel Go (born March 23, 1966) is a Filipino architect of Chinese descent. Go founded Daniel C. Go &
Associates, and ADGO Architecture and Design Inc., and is its principal architect. [1] His buildings include
the CCF Center in Pasig, and BTTC Centre the first LEED certified building in San Juan City in
the Philippines[2] aside from other residential and commercial establishment projects. He and his wife also
manage a printing and packaging business among other business endeavors. In 2006 he became a Fellow at
the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP), and became a registered APEC Architect in 2008.

Born on March 23, 1966, Daniel Chu Go is the eldest of five sons of Chinese parents, with a
businessman father who eventually became a pastor. The Go family is based in Quezon City,
Philippines,[3] and runs a processed and preserved food manufacturing business specializing in Chinese
delicacies started by his grandfather in the 1940s and still popular today among the Chinese
community.[1]
As a young boy, Daniel Go showed considerable interest and skill in the visual arts during summer art
classes and school competitions when he attended primary school at Grace Christian High School,
from 1973 to 1979, and at Jubilee Christian Academy both in Quezon City from 1979 to 1984 for
his secondary education.[3]
He decided to pursue his talent for drawings and illustrations by taking up Bachelor of Science in
Architecture at the College of Architecture and Fine Arts of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila,
where he graduated Cum Laude from the graduating class of 1989.[4]
Daniel Go is married, and a father to four children three sons, and one daughter.
As a diversion from his work Go also has a passion for restoring cars,[5] and considers running
and golf as his two main sports. He spends a lot of his leisure time with his family[1]and travels a lot to
learn the arts from different cultures.
After graduating in 1989, Go briefly worked as an apprentice to Architect Jose Siao Ling where he
was designated to work as a draftsman. Not long after his apprenticeship with Architect Jose Siao
Ling, he took up and passed his Architect Licensure Examination in 1991 where he then preceded to
practice architecture professionally.
In 1996, Go established his own firm named Daniel C. Go & Associates. Then in 2006, he was
conferred and elevated to the College of Fellows in the Field and Category of Design of the United
Architects of the Philippines (UAP) During the same year, he established ADGO Architecture and
Designs Inc., this time tackling bigger projects alongside a pool of younger architects. In 2008, Go
was conferred as an APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Architect.
The Christs Commission Fellowship Worship and Training Center (known as CCF Center)
completed in 2013 was Gos first big project because during that time, Go hasnt designed anything
of this magnitude, and designing and erecting this project took him seven years. The CCF Center is
the international headquarters of the non-denominational megachurch called Christ's Commission

Fellowship (CCF). The 11-storey ministry building with more than 97,000 sqm floor area and an
estimated seating capacity of 10,000, located in a 2.3 hectare lot in Pasig City is one of the largest
worship centers in the Philippines.[6]
Aside from the CCF Center, another major project of Architect Go is the BTTC Centre in Greenhills,
San Juan City. Completed in 2013, the BTTC Centre is a LEED Gold certified building for Leadership
in Energy and Environmental design from the US Green Building Council (USGBC). It is the first
LEED Certified building in San Juan, and the first LEEDCertified project of Architect Go.[7]
In addition to these major projects, Architect Go has developed projects raging from residential
spaces, condominiums, townhouse units, institutional buildings, warehouse compounds, commercial
and office buildings, industrial complexes and hotels.
Architect Daniel Gos design philosophy is centered on his own brand of classicism, which he defines
as both timeless and inspirational. He fuses classical and modern styles, creating sleek and modern
living spaces more for practicality.[4]
Christs Commission Fellowship Worship and Training Center Ortigas Avenue corner C-5

Road, Pasig City (Completed 2013)

BTTC Centre (Green Building project) Ortigas Avenue corner Roosevelt St. San Juan City
(Completed 2012)

CEDAR Executive Building III Timog Ave. corner Scout Tobias, Diliman, Quezon City (Completed
2012)

9-Storey Office Building Jose Abad Santos St., San Juan City (Completed 2014)

Commodity Quest Warehouse Compound Sumulong Highway, Antipolo City (Completed 2014)

Sun Valley Golf Club Condominium Inarawan, Antipolo City (Completed 2009)

Unimagma Philippines Industrial Building, Bo. Ganado, LIIP, Bian, Laguna (Completed 2012)

Diversys Spectrum Corporate Office & Manufacturing Plant Laguna Technopark Phase II, Bian,
Laguna (Completed 2006)

Ildefonso Paez Santos, Jr., popularly known simply as "IP Santos" (September 5, 1929 January 29, 2014),
was a Filipino architect who was known for being the "Father of Philippine Landscape Architecture." He was
recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines in the field of Architecture in 2006.[1]
He was the son of Filipino poet Ildefonso Santos and Asuncion Paez.[2]
Santos graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 1954 with a degree in the field of architecture. He
then pursued a second degree in Architecture, as well as a Master of Architecture degree at the University of
Southern California School of Architecture.[3]
Santos died at 10 in the morning on January 29, 2014.

Santos pioneered the profession of landscape architecture in the Philippines. [4] He was bestowed with the title
of "national artist" for his outstanding achievement in architecture and allied arts on June 9, 2006. [5]
Among the locations that comprise IP Santos' body of work are the landscaping of:

Cultural Center of the Philippines

Manila Hotel

San Miguel Corporation Building

Nayong Pilipino

Paco Park

Rizal Park

Loyola Memorial Park

Tagaytay Highlands Golf and Country Club

The Orchard Golf and Country Club

Magallanes Church

Asian Institute of Management

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 andChinese ceramics. He was proclaimed a National Artist of the
Philippines for Architecture in 1990 by the late President Corazon C. Aquino.
Leandro V. Locsin was born August 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 married Cecilia Yulo, and one of their two children is also an
architect.
An art lover, he frequented the Philippine Art Gallery, where he met the curator, Fernando Zbel de Ayala y
Montojo. The latter recommended Locsin to the Ossorio family that 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, Fr. John Delaney, S.J., then Catholic Chaplain at the University of the Philippines Diliman, 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 to have an 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.
On 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 was 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 being afloat. A large lagoon in front of the theatre mirrors the building during daytime, while
fountains are illuminated by underwater lights at nighttime. The building houses four theaters, a museum of
ethnographic art 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 now the seat of the Vice Presidency.
He was also commissioned in 1974 to design the Ayala Museum to house the Ayala art collection.[1] 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 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.
Locsin also designed some of the buildings at the UP Los Baos campus (UPLB). The Dioscoro Umali Hall,
the main auditorium, is clearly an example of his distinct architecture, with its large canopy that makes it
resemble the main theatre of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). Most of his work is concentrated on
the Freedom Park, with the Student Union Building which was once damaged by a fire, the Carillon, the
Continuing Education Center and the auditorium. He also designed the SEARCA Residences, and several
structures at the National Arts Center (housing the Philippine High School for the Arts) at Mt. Makiling, Los
Baos, Laguna.
Most of Locsin's work has been within 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. In 1992, he received the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize from Fukuoka City.
Ironically, Locsin's last work was also a church in Malaybalay, Bukidnon. Leandro V. Locsin died November
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.
Juan F. Nakpil (18991986) was a Filipino architect, teacher and a community leader. In 1973, he was named
one of the National Artists for architecture, and tapped as the Dean of Filipino Architects.

He was one of eight children of the Philippine Revolution veterans Julio Nakpil and Gregoria de
Jess (who married the former after the death of her first husband Andrs Bonifacio). He died in
Manila in 1986 due to health reasons.
He took up Engineering at the University of the Philippines and later, at the University of Kansas
where he received his Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering. He then studied Architecture at
the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts, in France upon the recommendation of Jean Jacques Haffner,
one of his professors at the Harvard Graduate School of Architecture.[2]
Nakpil joined Andres Luna de San Pedro's architectural firm in 1928.[3] Among Nakpil's works are San
Carlos Seminary, Geronimo de los Reyes Building, Iglesia ni Cristo Riverside Locale (Now F.
Manalo, San Juan) Magsaysay Building, Rizal Theater, Capitol Theater, Captain Pepe Building,
Manila Jockey Club, Rufino Building, Philippine Village Hotel, University of the
Philippines Administration and University Library, and the Rizal Shrine in Calamba, Laguna. He also
designed the International Eucharistic Congress altar and improved the Quiapo Church in 1930 by
erecting a dome and a second belfry. He was hailed as a National Artist for Architecture in 1973.[4]

Church

San Carlos Seminary

Interior Design of Quiapo Church (1930)

Iglesia ni Cristo Riverside Local (now F. Manalo)

Theater

Gaiety Theater, Manila (now inactive)

Rizal Theater (now demolished and now replaced and occupied by Shangri-La Hotel Makati City in
1993)

Capitol Bldg. (now inactive)

Other Establishments

Arellano University Building

Magsaysay Bldg.

Geronimo Delos Reyes Bldg.

Capitan Pepe Bldg.

Manila Jockey Club

Philippine Village Hotel (now inactive, closed in 2000)

University of the Philippines Administration & Library

Rizal Shrine

Gala-Rodriguez Ancestral House

Fernando Hizon Ocampo was a Filipino Architect and Civil Engineer. Born August 7, 1897, in San
Fernando, Pampanga, he was the son of Dr. Basilio Ocampo and Leoncia Hizon.

One of Manila's renowned architects, Ocampo was educated at the Ateneo de Manila A.B., in
1914; University of Santo Tomas, Civil Engineering, 1919; andUniversity of Pennsylvania, Bachelor
of Architecture, 1921. Following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, he worked in the
office of Mr. Emile Perrot, an architect in Philadelphia, and then spent two years traveling in Europe,
giving particular attention to architectural designs. Returning to Manila he was for four years an

assistant architect in the Bureau of Public Works. In 1927 he became associated with architect Tomas
Arguelles and established Arguelles and Ocampo, architects. [1]
Many of Manila's finest business buildings and residences attest to Ocampo's ability as an architect
and engineer. Among these are the Manila Cathedral; UST Central Seminary; the Arguelles, Paterno
(later became Far Eastern Air Transport Inc. or FEATI), Ayala, Cu Unjieng and Cu Unjieng and
Fernandez buildings; the Assumption Academy of Pampanga and the residence of Mr. Joaquin
Baltazar, the latter having taken the first prize in the 1930 beautiful home contest. In 1929 and 1930
Ocampo was a member of the Board of Examiners for Architects in Manila and in addition to his
private practice he became a member of the faculty of the School of Architecture at the University of
Santo Tomas, Manila.[1]
One of Ocampo's children was renowned basketball player and coach Ed Ocampo (1938-1999).[2]

Carlos Antonio Santos-Viola (April 8, 1912 July 31, 1994) was an architect in the Philippines. He is best
known for designing and building churches for the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) religious group.
Carlos was born Carlos Santos-Viola y Antonio in San Miguel, Bulacan and one of six children to Melecio de
Guzman Santos and Miguela Magpitang Antonio.
Starting from San Miguel Elementary School, Carlos moved on to the Ateneo de Manila to finish his high
school education. While in Ateneo he joined the school band, and was quite active in basketball. Santos-Viola
was one of the very first graduates of the College of Architecture of the University of Santo Tomas in 1935.
During this time the professors then were outstanding architects and engineers of the period, such as Tomas
Arguelles, Tomas Mapua, Juan F. Nakpil, Fernando H. Ocampo, and Andres Luna de San Pedro.
Santos-Viola worked in the office of Juan Nakpil after graduating. There he met Juan's youngest sister,
Caridad, his future wife and mother to his children: Rosario, Milagros, Paz, Lourdes and Carlos Jr.
Shortly after World War II, he decided to open his own office in partnership with Alfredo J. Luz. In 1955, both
parted ways and practiced separately.
His first exposure to the INC group was executed under Nakpil's company through the Bishop's Palace in San
Juan, Manila. INC gave the subsequent project directly to Santos-Viola. Although common elements may be
visible, his designs were distinct from one another. Each structure was created on functionality that was built
with integrity, adorned with 20th-century geometric forms garnished with Gothic revival and Baroque lines.
Among those completed designs was the INC's central office in Quezon City. Architect Santos-Viola was the
only Filipino Architect who designed churches that were built all over the Philippines.
Carlos was a lifelong devout Roman Catholic. He ministered for the Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Quezon
City and was frequently invited to join the INC but repeatedly denied the invitations due to ideological
differences. He also taught architecture at the college where he graduated, and helped found the Philippine
Institute of Architects in 1938.