ARTS - Architecture

ARCHITECTURA

Latin word for architecture

ARCHITECTON

Greek word of architecture

Archi

“Chief” or “Leader”

Tekton

“builder” or “Carpenter”

VITRUVIUS

the earliest written work on the subject of architecture by the Roman architect

Composition

The organization of the whole out of its parts, the conception of single elements, the interrelating of these elements, and the relating of them to the total form.

Environment

The architect aims to create harmonies with preexisting elements in the landscape and townscape.

Form

is not only the physical shape, size, and mass of a work are meant, but also all the elements that contribute to the work’s aesthetic structure and composition.

Iron and steel

The most important innovation in architecture since ancient times. These methods provide far stronger and taller structures with less expenditure of material

Juan f. nakpil

The son of veterans of the Philippine Revolution, Juan Nakpil was committed to the belief that architecture built in the Philippines should reflect its culture and people.

Leandro locsin

It is for his buildings, however, that he is remembered. From airport terminals to memorial chapels, arts centers to stock exchange structures, Locsin left his mark on the urban landscape of the Philippines.

beton brut

unfinished concrete

Pablo s. antonio

One of the first exponents of modernist architecture in the Philippines. He is revered as a pioneer and the foremost architect of his time.

Idelfonso P. Santos Jr.

The father of Philippine landscape architecture, he was known, created some of the best loved urban spaces in the Philippines.

JOSÉ MARÍA V. ZARAGOZA

a pillar of modern architecture in the Philippines buttressed by a half- century career that produced ecclesiastical edifices and structures of modernity in the service of God and humanity.

FRANCISCO T. MANOSA

From the 1960s in his landmark design of the Sulo Hotel until his retirement about 2015, he courageously and passionately created original Filipino forms, spaces with intricate and refined details.