SECOND QUARTER

S.Y. 2020 - 2021

Week 5: National Artists for

Literature and Architecture
 At the end of this module, you
can:
 Identify the awardees for National
Artists for Literature and
Architecture.
 Explain the contributions of each
artist in the field of literary works and
architectural structures.
 Appreciate their roles for the
development of Philippine art.
NATIONAL ARTISTS FOR
LITERATURE
 FRANCISCO ARCELLANA
Year of Conferment: 1990
• Writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist, and
teacher
• Pioneered Modern Filipino Short Stories
in English
• His short stories are written in lyrical
prose-poetic form
• His works are now an indispensable part of
a tertiary-level-syllabi all over the country.
 EDITH L. TIEMPO
Year of Conferment: 1999
• poet, fictionist, teacher and literary critic
• Her literary works are often described as a
remarkable fusion of style and
substance.
• Recipient of the Carlos Palanca Memorial
Awards for Literature for the short story.
• Founder of the Silliman University
National Writers Workshop- Asia’s
longest running writer’s workshop held in
the city of Dumaguete
 BIENVENIDO LUMBERA
Year of Conferment: 2006
• a poet, librettist, and scholar
• He introduced to Tagalog literature what is
now known as Bagay poetry, a landmark
aesthetic tendency that has helped to change
the vernacular poetic tradition
• He pioneered the creative fusion of fine arts
and popular imagination.
 VIRGILIO S. ALMARIO
Year of Conferment: 2003
• He is also known as Rio Alma.
• a poet, literary historian, and critic
• revived and reinvented traditional Filipino
poetic forms, even as he championed
modernist poetics.
• He has translated for theater production
some of the famous plays of Nick Joaquin
and international literary artists such Bertolt
Brecht and Maxim Gorki.
 RAMON L. MUZONES
Year of Conferment: 2018
• A Hiligaynon poet, essayist, short story
writer, critic, grammarian, editor,
lexicographer, and novelist who authored
an unprecedented 61 completed novels
• A number of these represent
groundbreaking “firsts’ in Hiligaynon
literature
• He also enriched Hiligaynon literature’s
dramatis personae.
NATIONAL ARTISTS FOR
ARCHITECTURE
 PABLO S. ANTONIO
Year of Conferment: 1976
• He is one of the leaders in modern
Philippine architecture.
• Modest and functional
architecture- use of clean, smooth
lines and the utility of light and
ventilation.
• His works are simple and
functional.
 FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY
ADMINISTRATION AND SCIENCE
BUILDINGS

WHITE CROSS ORPHANAGE

 LEANDRO V. LOCSIN
Year of Conferment: 1990
• He reshaped the urban landscape with a
distinctive architecture reflective of
Philippine Art and Culture.
• His style of floating volumes, and duality of
light and heavy is unparalleled with other
artists.
• With the span of 30 years, he has produced 75
residences and 88 buildings, which include 11
churches and chapels, 23 public buildings, 48
commercial buildings, 6 major hotels, and an
airport terminal building.
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CCP COMPLEX
 JUAN F. NAKPIL
Year of Conferment: 1973
• An architect, teacher, and civic leader;
who is a pioneer and innovator in
Philippine architecture
• Nakpil’s greatest contribution is his
belief that there is such a thing as
Philippine Architecture, espousing
architecture reflective of Philippine
traditions and culture.
RECONSTRUCTED QUIAPO
CHURCH

1937 EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS

ALTAR
 ILDEFONSO P. SANTOS, JR.
Year of Conferment: 2006

• pioneering the practice of landscape

architecture–an allied field of
architecture–in the Philippines and then
producing four decades of exemplary
and engaging work that has included
hundreds of parks, plazas, gardens,
and a wide range of outdoor settings
that have enhanced contemporary
Filipino life.
PACO PARK

TAGAYTAY HIGHLANDS
LANDSCAPE
 FRANCISCO T. MAÑOSA
Year of Conferment: 2018
• What is most valuable is that he was in the
heart and soul of a Philippine
architectural movement
• He has developed a legacy of Philippine
architecture, which is essential to our
Filipino identity and at the same time,
deeply appreciated and shared in our
world today.
• National Artist for Architecture and
Allied Arts
SAN MIGUEL BUILDING

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