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Board of Architecture

The first three-member Board of Examiners for Architects was constituted to regulate the
architecture profession, pursuant to Public Act No. 2985 enacted on February 23, 1921.
The examiners were appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and Communications who
was authorized to appoint the boards of examiners for the engineering, accountancy and
surveying professions. The first Board was composed of Arch. Elias L. Ruiz as Chairman
with Arch. Rufino D. Antonio and Arch. Federico S. Ilustre as Members.

By virtue of Public Act No. 4007 enacted on December 5, 1932, the Board was attached
to the Department of Public Works and Communications. On June 17, 1950, Republic
Act No. 545 was enacted, separating architecture from the coverage of Public Act No.
2985. On September 19, 1979 the National Code for Architects was promulgated by the
Board and approved by the PRC as part of the Implementing Rules and Regulations
governing the practice of architecture in the Philippines.

United Architects of the Philippines (UAP)

Date of Accreditation : July 15, 1975

The first professional association of architecture, civil engineers, and surveyors was born
on September 14, 1902 with the creation of the Academia de Arquitectura y Agrimensura
de Filipinas (AAAF).

In 1973, the Philippine Institute of Architects (PIA), the League of Philippine Architects
(LPA), and the Association of Philippine Government Architects (APGA) appointed
representatives to a Panel of Negotiators tasked to undertake their integration into one
organization. A year after, on December 12, 1974, the United Architects of the
Philippines (UAP) was organized as the integrated organization. Its constitution and
bylaws were adopted through a joint general meeting of the three organizations on
December 10, 1975. The 1,300 members of the three organizations became automatic
members of the UAP and during its first year, 700 members officially registered for
membership.

On March 26, 1975 the UAP registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission
and became the first professional organization accredited by PRC with a certificate of
accreditation issued on May 12, 1975. That same year, the UAP established its first eight
regional chapters and held its first national elections on December 12 with Jose V.
Herrera elected as National President.

In 1978, the UAP organized the National Conference on Architectural Education which
resulted to the endorsement of a ladder-type curriculum for architectural education later
adopted by the Ministry of Education and Culture. On March 28, 1981, the UAP initiated
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the preparation of the “International Code of Ethics on Consulting Services” which was
formally adopted by the Architects Regional Council in Asia (ARCASIA) on August 6 of
the same year. The UAP also hosted the first and the sixth Asian Congress of Architects
in Manila. The UAP is a founding member of the Philippine Council for Planning and
Housing (PCPH), the ARCASIA, the ARCASIA Board of Architectural Education
(ABAE) organized in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the ASEAN Association for Planning and
Housing (AAPH).

EO 648 – declaring the HLURB as the planning, regulatory and quasi-judicial

instrumentality of the government for land use development

EO 72 – providing for preparation and implementation of comprehensive land use plan of

LGU; powers of HLURB to review and approve the comprehensive land use plans of
cities and municipalities are devolved to the province- such powers shall be exercised by
the sanguniang panlalawigan/sanguniang bayan

EO 71 – devolving powers of HLURB to approve preliminary and final subdivision plans

for public and private projects as covered by PD 957 and BP 220 to cities and
municipalities

EO 90 – identifying the government agencies essential for the national shelter program
and defining their mandates; creating the Housing And Urban Development Coordinating
Council; rationalizing funding sources and lending mechanisms for home mortgages and
for other purposes

EO 124 - establishing priorities and procedures in evaluating areas for land conversion in
regional agricultural/industrial centers, tourism development areas sites for socialized
housing

EO 184 – creating socialized housing one-stop processing centers

EO 272 – social housing finance corporation

EO 164 – hiring foreign consultants

EO 1008 – construction industry arbitration act

04 Feb 1985
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PD 1216 – defining open space in residential subdivision and amending sec31 of PD 957;
for subdivision project more than 1 hectare: 30%
14 Oct 1977

-9% - socialized housing

-7% - economic housing 3.5% - socialized housing

PD 957 – subdivision and condominium buyers‟ protective act

12 July 1976

PD 1151 – environmental policy

PD 1152 – environmental code

PD 929 – contractors and subcontractors tax

PD 442 – labor code

PD 705 – system of land classification

PD 953 – requiring 30% of any housing area shall be green areas and open areas and
open spaces exclusive of roads and drainage

PD 757 – creating the NHA

31 July 1975

PD 1185 – Fire Code

26 Aug 1977

PD 223 – PRC
22 June 1973

PD 1096 – National Building Code

19 Feb 1977

PD 705 – decree which provides system of land classification into agricultural, industrial,
commercial, residential

PD 546 – creating board of examiners for architecture

PD 1517 – urban land reform

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PD 1067 – water code

PD 856 – sanitation code

PD 964 – creating planning and development office of DPWH

PD 208 – granting privileges and honors to national artists

PD 748 – prescribing the metric system as sole measurement standard

PD 1759 – penalizing contractors and sub-contractors who violate any material provision
in govt. contracts

PD 1616 – intramuros

PD 49 – decree of intellectual property

PD 165 – patent law

RA 4726 – condominium act

RA 7899 – amended condo act

RA 496 – land registration act

Ra 6552 – realty installment buyer protection act

RA 386, Art 1723 -liability of architect, engineer and contractor

18 June 1949

RA 545 – act to regulate practice of architecture

17 June 1950

RA 184 – Electrical Code

RA 7920 – regulate practice of electrical engineer

RA 7277 – magna carta for disabled persons

RA 8981 – prc modernization act

RA 1378 – Plumbing Law

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RA 9266 –architecture act of 2004

17 Mar 2004

RA 4566 – contractor‟s licensing law

RA 7279 – urban development and housing act

24 Mar 1992

RA 7160 – local government code

RA 816 – phil. law on arbitration

RA 6511 – failure to pay annual registration fees for 5 years by registered professionals
will be suspended and be dropped from annual roster

RA 1080 – making bar and board exams equivalent to first grade civil service eligibility

RA 6657 – CARP

RA 7835 – comprehensive and integrated shelter financing act

RA 9275 – clean water act

22 Mar 2004

Public Act No. 2985 – 1st architect/engineer law

23 Feb 1921

BP 220 – socialized and economic housing

25 Mar 1982

BP 344 – accessibility law

25 Feb 1983

RA 8293 – intellectual property code

RA 9003 – ecological solid management group

RA 9053 – landscape architecture

RA 9184 – government procurement law

PD 1308- regulating the practice of environmental planning

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PD 1594- prescribing policies, guidelines, gules and regulations for government

infrastructure contracts

LOI 1000 – PRC accredited professional organization; law which requires govt. agencies
to give priority to members of govt. accredited profession in hiring of its members;
authorizing govt. accredited organization to host/represent the Filipino professions in
international conferences

Community Mortgage Program (CMP) mortgage financing program by the national

housing mortgage finance corporation (NHMFC) which assist organizations of
Under-privileged to purchase or develop land under concept of community ownership;
assist residents of blighted areas to own lots they occupy or where they choose to relocate

National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation (NHMFC) – agency mandated to

administer takeouts of buyers originated by banks and developers faced with
administrative problems in loan processing; provides construction and development
finance for housing; provide CMP

Home Insurance Guaranty Corporation – design guarantee schemes to encourage

financial institutions to go into direct lending to housing

Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) – mandated to

coordinate and supervise government housing agencies

Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) – government principal housing
regulatory body; prepares land use policies on human settlements; prepares building
rental laws; prepares technical requirements/guidelines for land use and zoning

National Housing Authority (NHA) – agency tasked for building of housing units and
residential condominiums, administers resettlements/relocations

Home Mutual Development Fund (HDMF) – administers PAG-BIG funds

United Home Lending Program (UHLP) – administered by NHMFC from funds

contributed by SSS, HDMF, GSIS

Social Security System (SSS) – insurance system for private sector

Social Housing Finance Corporation (SHFC) – subsidiary of NHMFC

Government Service Insurance System – insurance system for public sector/ govt.
employees
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Model A – classification of subdivision located in all cities and municipalities regardless

of class
Model B – classification of subdivision located in second class municipalities
Model C – classification of subdivision located in third class municipalities

Major Road – road which serves as main access of subdivision from outside areas;
connects site to another transport route; provides mobility with direct access to lots

Minor Road – road which provides for distribution of traffic within the subdivision with
direct access to lots but at lower speed

Service Road – road which provide the distribution of traffic among individual lots and
activity centers wherein integration of the road with the land is emphasized while speed
of movement is de-emphasized

Collector Road – road which links the site to access road and provides selective crossing
or interruption of traffic flow with direct access to individual lots

Frank Lloyd Wright – textile blocks, organic architecture

“form and function are one”

“the reality of a building is not the container but the space within”

“the architect is a molder of men, whether or not he consciously assumes responsibility”

„nature spelled with a capital N the way you spell God with a capital G”

“organic architecture: all parts are related to the whole as the whole was related to the
parts; continuity and integrity”

Pierre Luigi Nervi - ferrocement

“structural correctness is identical with functional, technical and economic truthfulness”

“architecture is a synthesis of the technology and art”

Oscar Niemeyer
“architecture must have liberty of forms”

“architecture is expression of poetry”

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Kenzo Tange
“modern architecture need not be western”

Ieoh Ming Pei

“symbolisms and blasphemies”

“architecture is the expression of the past”

Vitruvius
“strength, beauty and unity”

Richard Rogers
“design is how, form is what”

Robert Venturi
“Less is Bore”

Otto Wagner
“nothing that is not practical can be beautiful”

“essential basis of natural forms as geometries”

Minoru Yamasaki
“humanism”

Michael graves
“design as if you are a child”

“classical forms language of both the arctuated and trabeated models”

Adolf Loos
“ornament equals crime”
“lift the building in the ground”

Charles Renee Makintosh

“modern ideas in modern dress”

“design by living men for living men”

Louis Sullivan
“form follows function”
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Robert Mailart – mushroom slab construction

“a bridge is like a house”

Erich Mendelsohn – fluid mass theory

“architecture is the only tangible expression of space”

Eero Saarinen – reflective glass

“function influence but does not dictate”

“spiritual function is inseparable from practical function”

Eleil Saarinen

“beauty grows from necessity, not from repetition”

Richard Nuetra – rush city

“a house is like a flower pot”

“most important material is man”

Rem Koolhaas
“the client is chaos”
“the integration of notion of cheapness to create sublime conditions”

Otto Wagner
“a town in a town”

Alvar Aalto (Hugo Alvar Henric)

“form is the mystery that defies description but brings people pleasure”

Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret}

“a cube within a cube”

“a house is a machine to live in‟

“architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in
light”

“space and light and order. these are the things men need just as much they need bread or
place to sleep”

“the „styles‟ are a lie”

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – skin and bone architecture

“less is more”

Antonio Gaudi –hyperbolic paraboloid

„form does not necessarily follow function”

“straight lines belong to man, curved lines belong to God”

Marcel Bruer
“nature and architecture are two different things”

Walter Gropius
“art and architecture, the new unity”

“machine is to be our modern medium of design

Louis Khan
“a house is a house”

“architecture built not for need, but for art”

Paul Rodulph
“automobile is the most important organizing element in the structure

Rem Koolhass
“the client is chaos”

Philip Johnson
“architecture is the art of wasting space”