OTHER RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTED IN THE EARLY YEARS

Old houses were built to serve as memorials and were built with architectural designs. Some of them
were the Syquia Mansion in Vigan City, a three-story house with high-pitched roof facing the town plaza;
the Valenzuela house with its caryatids in Malolos, Bulacan ; the Rizal house in Calamba, Laguna with a
lantern on its roof ridge; the Monte de Piedad building with its imposing pediment and fluted column
style in Manila.

ARCHITECTURE DURING THE AMERICAN PERIOD

During the early stage of the American period repair, rehabilitation and construction of buildings and
other structures were done principally by army engineers employed by the Governor Taft.

o Daniel H. Burnham – a Chicago architect was commissioned to design architectural structures in

Manila, Baguio and other places. It took almost two decades before the Burnham plan was
carried out.
o Among the structures erected and specified in the plan were Congress of the Philippines,
Finance Building, Agriculture Building, Post Office and Supreme Court.
CONCRETE BUILDINGS IN MANILA

The Philippine Normal School (now Philippine Normal University) and the Philippine General Hospital
(PGH) in Taft Avenue were the first big reinforce concrete buildings erected in Manila. Tile was used as
roofing, s specified in the Burnham Plan. The PGH design was under the supervision of Tomas Mapua.

THE CLASSIC STYLE OF JUAN ARELLANO AND ANTONIO TOLEDO

Both Arellano and Toledo designed some of the Philippine government buildings. The Congress of the
Philippines building has a rectangular plan with elaborate decorations. Corinthian columns dominate the
huge portico. The pediments of the double-pitched roof are decorated with sculptured figure.
The Post Office building designed also by Toledo and Arellano, situate in Plaza Lawton (now Liwasang
Bonifacio) was erected in 1926. It was designed to cater to the public. One side of the spacious lobby is a
continuous counter with grills set with windows at intervals.

Toledo also designed the UP buildings in Ermita, Manila. Arellano designed the Villamor Hall in UP. Other
classical architecture included the Pangasinan Provincial Capitol which was erected in 1920, Capitol
building of Bacolod City and others.

Classical architecture became famous for its porticos and vestibules, colonnades and arcades.

CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE

With the advent of this new architecture, classical architecture lost ground. Architects travelled and
learned abroad came back with their knowledge of art.

Buildings with contemporary designs

 Philippine National Bank - a building that was five-storie high

 Insular Life Building - stood prominently on the south east corner of Plaza Cervantes

 Old Ideal Theatre in Quiapo, Manila

 Metropolitan Theatre in Liwasang Bonifacio

 Cebu Provincial Capitol

 Rizal Memorial Stadium

 Quezon Institue in Quezon City

 Some buildings inside the UP Diliman

Among the famous architecture during time were Fernando Ocampo, Juan Nakpil and Pablo Antonio.
Other promising were Felix Mendoza, V. Formoso, C. Arguelles, Cesar Concio and O. Arellanpo.