Famous Filipino

Architects
PREPARED BY:
KIARA NICOLE RIVERA
MAE ANN RUBERTO
KISHA SABES
OF BSA 2-A
 Leandro Locsin (1928-1994)

 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

 proclaimed a National Artist of the Philippines

for Architecture in 1990 by the late President
Corazon C. Aquino
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 Francisco Mañosa (1931-2019)

 one of the most influential Filipino architects of the

20th century

 pioneered the art of Philippine neovernacular

architecture

 His contributions to the development of Philippine

architecture led to his recognition as a National
Artist of the Philippines for Architecture in 2018

 popularly known as the architect of the Coconut

Palace and his other notable works include the EDSA
Shrine, the Davao Pearl Farm, and Amanpulo resorts
 devoted his life's work to creating a Filipino identity in architecture,
advocating design philosophies that harken “back to the “bahay
kubo” and the ”bahay na bato,” and other traditional vernacular forms
 became known for combining these traditional forms and indigenous
materials with modern building technology to create structures which
he felt were those best suited to the Philippines’ tropical climate.
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PALACE
 Juan Nakpil (1899-1986)

 a Filipino architect, teacher and a community leader. In

1973, he was named one of the National Artists for
architecture
 He was regarded as the Dean of Filipino Architects.
 worked at Andres Luna de San Pedro's architectural firm
(1928) and at Don Gonzalo Puyat & Sons, opening his own
architectural firm in 1930.
 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.
 designed the International Eucharistic Congress altar
 improved the Quiapo Church in 1930 by erecting a dome and a second
belfry and burned down
 in 1929 prior to Nakpil's redesign of the building In the 1930's to the
1940's, Nakpil and his fellow architects Andres Luna de San Pedro,
Fernando Ocampo and Pablo Antonio started the period of modern
architecture in the Philippines Nakpil and others also established the
Philippine College of Design in 1941 but the institution did not survive
the Second World War.
 He was hailed as a National Artist for Architecture in 1973.[10]
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 Pablo Antonio (1901-1975)

 A pioneer of modern Philippine architecture

 he was recognized in some quarters as the foremost

Filipino modernist architect of his time
 The rank and title of National Artist of the
Philippines was conferred on him by President Ferdinand
Marcos in 1976.
 Antonio first came into prominence in 1933 with the
construction of the Ideal Theater along Avenida Rizal
in Manila.
 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.
 His style was noted for its simplicity and clean structural design.
 He was cited for taking Philippine architecture into a new direction, with
"clean lines, plain surfaces, and bold rectangular masses.“
 Antonio strove to make each building unique, avoiding obvious
trademarks.
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 Juan M. Arellano (1888-1960)

 best known for Manila's Metropolitan Theater (1935) L

 egislative Building (1926; now houses the National

Museum of Fine Arts),

 the Manila Central Post Office Building (1926)

 the Central Student Church (today known as the

Central United Methodist Church, 1932),

 the old Jaro Municipal Hall (1934) and the old Iloilo City

Hall (1935) in Iloilo

 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)
 Cotabato Municipal Hall (1940)
 Jones Bridge.
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 Carlos A. Santos-Viola (1912-1994)

 He is best known for designing and building churches

for the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) religious group.

 Santos-Viola worked in the office of Juan Nakpil after

graduating.

 He also taught architecture at the college where he

graduated, and helped found the Philippine Institute of
Architects in 1938.

 Architect Santos-Viola was the only Filipino Architect

who designed churches that were built all over the
Philippines.
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 Ildelfonso P. Santos Jr. (1929-2014)

 popularly known simply as "IP Santos", 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.

 pioneered the profession of landscape architecture in

the Philippines

 bestowed with the title of "national artist" for his

outstanding achievement in architecture and allied
arts on June 9, 2006.
Among the locations that comprise IP Santos' body of work are the landscaping of:

Rizal Park
 Cultural Center of the Philippines complex
 Bantayog ng mga Bayani  Loyola Memorial Park
 Manila Hotel  Tagaytay Highlands Golf and Country Club
 San Miguel Corporation Building
 The Orchard Golf and Country Club
 Nayong Pilipino Paco Park
Magallanes Church

Asian Institute of Management

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 Carlos Arguelles (1917-2008)

 was known for being a leading proponent of the International

Style of architecture in the Philippines in the 1960s.
 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 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 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 the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 1999.
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 Jose Maria Zaragoza (1912-1994)

 Zaragoza looked into European architecture for inspiration

instead of drawing from American architecture.

 Zaragoza was involved in designing several religious

buildings such as The Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in
Tala, Caloocan completed in 1950;
 the Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City and the Villa San
Miguel in Mandaluyong both which was finished in 1954;
 the Pius XII Center in Manila completed in 1958, and the
expansion of the Quiapo Church completed in 1984
 Zaragoza derived traditional forms from Spanish colonial architecture and combined it with
simple, unornamented designs of the International style.
 This design was evident in the arcades of the Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City
 His style had an impact of designs of houses.
 The visual framework of the "Spanish style" architecture which was favored in residences
from the 1950s to the 1960s was derived from his designs.
 The "Spanish style" is not widely used in Spain but the name was an adopted term in
Philippine residential architecture.
 his later works had influences from Brazilian architecture as evident in the Meralco Center in
Ortigas and Philbank Building in the Port Area, Manila both finished in 1965. The Commercial
and Bank Trust Company Building, completed in 1969, in Escolta, Manila, incorporates subtle
flowing Latino line design.
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 Fernando Ocampo (1897-1984)

 was a Filipino Architect and civil Engineer

 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 Building
FEATI University) at carriedo corner McArthur Bridge,
Sta. Cruz, Manila, Ayala, G.A. CuUnjieng Building build
in 1935 (demolished on September 1945 during
liberation of manila)
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 Tomas Mapua (1888-1965)

 holds the distinction of being the first registered

Architect of the Philippines
 He was sent to the United States to study in Boone’s
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 Burnham’s
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
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Anders Luna de San Pedro (1887-
1952)

 built the first air-conditioned building in the Philippines,

the Crystal Arcade one of the popular tenant of Manila
Stock Exchange (previous site of Paseo de Escolta)
Building (now present site of City College of Manila-
Escolta Building Demolished 2016
 He was assigned as the city architect of the City of 
Manila from 1920 to 1924. His designs were modernist.
Some of them were lost during World Warr II
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Felino Palafox

  Filipino architect, urban planner

  He is the Principal Architect-Urban Planner and
Founder of Palafox Associates, Arch. In 1989
 Palafox is in the field of planning and architecture
for four decades serving both the government
and private sector
 The firm has also received more than 200 awards
and recognitions in the past 25 years, most
notably as the first Filipino architectural firm
included in the Top 500 Architectural Firms in the
World of the London-based World Architecture
Magazine in 1999, the only Southeast Asian
architectural firm included in the list
La Mesa Ecopark, Quezon Supreme Court Centennial Building,
City Manila
Felix Roxas y Arroyo

 the first recorded Filipino architect

 He was trained in Europe in 1884 and spent his early
career in England and India. When he returned to the
Philippines, he developed an affection for Revivalist
architecture
 Architect Roxas was the uncle of one of the richest
Filipinos at that time, Don Pedro Pablo Roxas y Castro.
He designed their mansion on Calle General Solano, in
San Miguel, Manila. He was also the first cousin of Don
Jose Bonifacio Roxas and the equally prominent Doña
Margarita Roxas de Ayala, the mother of Carmen, who
became Don Pedro's wife. Don Felix married Concha
Fernandez and they had twelve children.
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INTRAMUROS (1875) IGNACIO (1863)
Angel Nakpil (1914-1980)

 a Harvard-trained architect
 He served as the City Planning Commissioner
of Manila during the post-war reconstruction
years, from 1947 – 1949
 He also served as dean of the University of
Santo Tomas School of Architecture from 1959
to 1961
 He was a charter member of the United
Architects of the Philippines, which was
founded in 1975.
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Juan Carlo Calma

  visual artist and architect

 He has been called "one of the Philippines’ bright
young stars in architecture, interior design and visual
arts
 With a pedigree from a line of artisans and architects,
[2] he finished multi-disciplinary courses in sculpture,
painting, and light design at the California College of
the Arts in San Francisco (2000-2003). He then
moved to London and graduated from the
Architectural Association School of Architecture
(2009).
 His works seek to blur the lines between art and architecture. His
design practice, Carlo Calma Consultancy, Inc., also challenges itself
to cross scales[1] and media from bespoke private homes to public
installations that have been called "young, edgy, and very
impressive". His works have been said to be culturally informed,
blending disciplines and surmounting limitations with new modes of
being and technology.
IWorks in Architecture and Interiors
 2015 Bolean House
 2015 Envelope House
 2015 Brutalist House
 2014 VASK
 2014 Mesa
 2011 The Constellation, Diamond Hotel
 2011 MI+CASA
 2008 The Aranaz Boutique, shortlisted in the Best Retail Interior Awards 2008 in London.
Solo and Group Exhibitions
 2014 Obsession + Fetishes by Carlo Calma, Manifesto Gallerie, Philippines
 2014 Carlo Calma: Golden Horse Perforations, Makati Shangrila Lobby, Makati, Philippines
 2013 Greenstallations,[11] Nuvali, Laguna, Philippines
 2011 Grammar of Movement, Ayala Museum, Makati, Philippines
Public Installations
 2014 Carlo Calma: Solaire 2, Manufactured Landscapes 3, Solaire, Manila, Philippines
 2014 Topography, Magnum Art Installations, SM Aura, Manila, Philippines
 2013 Carlo Calma: Green Installations, Public Garden Art in Nuvali, Philippines
Otilio Arellano (1916-1981)

 Born in Manila on 1916, Otilio Arellano is the son

of Arcadio Arellano and the nephew of Juan
Arellano, both are esteemed Architects of Prewar
Manila.
 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 uncle’s Art Deco
masterpiece. 
Philippines International Fair, Philippine Pavilion for the
1953 World Exposition, 1964
 Daniel Go

 Filipino architect of Chinese descent

 Go founded Daniel C. Go Architecture Design, and
ADGO Architecture and Design Inc., and is its principal
architect
 In 2006 he became a Fellow at the United Architects of
the Philippines (UAP), and became a registered APEC
Architect in 2008 and a registered ASEAN Architect in
2015
 He designed the first LEED certified building in San
Juan City in the Philippines
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 Roberto Chabet (1937-2013)

 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
1967–1970.
 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 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.
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MOON 1953