Filipino Architects

First Filipino Architect under the American Period with academic title MO-A.

Carlos Barreto

First registered architect in the Philippines.

Tomas Mapua

Regarded as the master of the Neoclassic style. Among the first architecteducators.

Antonio Toledo

First Filipino to be employed by the Americans as one of their architectural advisors. Pioneered in the establishment of an architectural and surveying office in the country.

Arcadio Arellano

Promoted the shift to protomodern (art deco and streamline modern) and nativist phase of Philippine architecture.

Juan Arellano

Advocated the enforcement of the Building Code of Manila

Tomas Arguelles

Introduced new architectural forms in the Philippines by incorporating modern and exotic design motifs

through the grammar of art deco

Andres Luna de San Pedro

National Artist for Architecture; His buildings were characterized by clean lines, plain surfaces, and

bold rectangular masses. He also became president of the Philippine Institute of Architects.

Pablo Antonio

Designed with straightforward simplicity, synthesizing traditional designs with art-deco ornaments. Co-founded the UST School of Fine Arts and Architecture in 1930.

Fernando

Ocampo

First Architect Society in the Phil. Academia de Arquetectura y Agrimensure de Filipinas in 1902. And founded the Phil. Architect's Society and become the President. National Artist for Architecture. Worked largely in the Art Deco style, combining stylized flora and angular forms.

Juan Nakpil

Head of the Division of Architecture

Federico Ilustre

National Artist for Architecture. Famous for thin shell structures.

Leandro Locsin

Father of Philippine Landscape Architecture and a Landscape Architect.

Ildefonso P. Santos Jr.

Initiated the successful use of brise soleil

Julio Victor Rocha

National Artists for Architecture 1973.

Juan Nakpil

National Artists for Architecture 1976.

Pablo S. Antonio

National Artists for Architecture 1990.

Leandro V. Locsin

National Artists for Architecture 2006.

Ildefonso P. Santos

National Artists for Architecture 2014.

Jose Ma. V. Zaragoza