FAMOUS LOCAL ARCHITECTS

FRANCISCO T. MAÑOSA
STYLE: Modern Architectural
PHILOSOPHY:
 Architecture must be true to itself, its land, and its people
FAMOUS WORK:
 EDSA Shrine
 Quezon City Memorial Circle
 Coconut Palace (Tahanang Pilipino)
 The Mañosa Family Home

CESAR HOMERO CONCIO

STYLE: Modern Architectural
PHILOSOPHY:
 The structure must be well
FAMOUS WORK:
  Palma Hall and Melchor Hall, UP Diliman
 Protestant Chapel and Fellowship Center, UP Diliman
 Buildings in Silliman University

LEANDRO V. LOCSIN
STYLE: International
PHILOSOPHY:
 Creating Architecture that is both modern and undeniably Filipino
FAMOUS WORK:
 National Artist in Architecture
 Main Theater, CCP Complex
 Folk Arts Theater, CCP Complex

CARLOS SANTOS VIOLA

STYLE: Gothic revival and Baroque
PHILOSOPHY:
 The structure should not only look good but must also be made well
FAMOUS WORK:
 Ermita Church Lourdes School of Quezon City Mandaluyong
Projects
 Iglesia ni Cristo chapels

REFERENCES:
https://united-architects.org/members/filipino-architecture/
https://www.lamudi.com.ph/journal/architect-francisco-manosa-defining-philippine-
architecture-through-the-lens-of-a-national-artist/
https://pdfcoffee.com/philosophies-of-architects-final-pdf-free.html
https://www.crownasia.com.ph/news-and-blogs/lifestyle-blogs/selected/the-life-and-works-
of-national-artist-for-architecture-leandro-locsin

FAMOUS FOREIGN ARCHITECTS

ROBERT CHARLES VENTURI, JR. (BORN JUNE 25, 1925) PHILADELPHIA U.S.A.
STYLE: Postmodern
PHILOSOPHY:
 Less is a bore
 Form accommodates function
FAMOUS WORK:
 Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.
 Chapel at the Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA. (2010)

WELLS WINTEMUTE COATES (1895 – 1958), ENGLAND

STYLE: Modern or International
PHILOSOPHY:
 Simplicity & functionality is the essence of design
FAMOUS WORK:
 Lawn Road Flats, Hampstead, London
 Master Plan for Iroquis, Canada

ANTONIO GAUDI (1852 – 1926 ), SPAIN

STYLE: Modern or International
PHILOSOPHY:
 Form does not necessary to follow function
of means.
FAMOUS WORK:
 Sagrada Famillia
 Casa Batallo
 Casa Mila
 Casa Vicens

PHILIP CORTELYOU JOHNSON (1906), U.S.A

STYLE: International or Modern
PHILOSOPHY:
 You cannot know history
FAMOUS WORK:
  Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut
 Seagram Bldg. , New York ( w/ Mies van der Rohe)
 William Proctor‟s Museum, N.Y.

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (1868 – 1929), SCOTLAND

STYLE: British Art Nouveau

PHILOSOPHY:
He believed in absence of external decoration & subtiety of proportion in structures.
FAMOUS WORK:
 Glasgow School of Art ( he won the competition for the design of this structure in
Scotland (1898 –1907 )

REFERENCES:
 FAMOUS_FOREIGN_ARCHITECT_20210424_17831.pdf