STRUCTURE ARCHITECT

Lever House, New York Skidmore, Owings & Merril

Chrysler Building, New York William Van Alen

Geodesic Dome Buckminster Fuller

Sydney Opera House Jorn Utzon

Solomon Guggenheim Museum Frank Lloyd Wright

Parliament Buildings, Brazil Lucio Costa & Oscar Nimeyer

Bauhaus Building, Germany Walter Gropius

Einstein Tower Eirch Mendelsohn

Chapel of Notre Dame Le Corbusier

Cultural Center of the Philippines Leandro Locsin

Tahanang Filipino or Coconut Palace Francisco “Bobby” Manosa

Asian Development Bank, Philippines C.C. de Castro

San Miguel Corporation Building Manuel Manosa

Bank of China, Hong Kong I.M. Pei

Twa Kennedy Airport, New York Eero Saarinen

AT & T Building, New York Philip Johnson

 FAMOUS DICTUMS/PHILOSOPHIES/SAYINGS

“Form follows function”

- Louis Sullivan

“Form does not necessarily follow function”

-Antonio Gaudi

“Art and Architecture, the new unity”

- Walter Gropius

“A house is a house”
- Louis Kahn

“Cube within a cube”

- Le Corbusier

“A bridge is like a house”

- Robert Maillart

“Less is more”
- Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe

“Function influence but does not dictate form”

- Ecro Saarinen

“Modern architecture need not to be Western”

- Kenzo Tange

“Archtiecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity”

- Marcus Vitruvius Pocio
 AGENCIES INVOLVED IN SHELTER

(HUDCC) Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council

An office mandated to coordinate and supervise the government’s housing
agencies. It is also tasked in monitoring the performance of the housing sector, and
involved in policy formations.

(SSS) Social Security System

The insurance system for the private sector, where coverage is compulsory upon
all employees not over sixty years of age.

(GSIS) Government Service Insurance System

The insurance system for the Public sector or the government employee

PAG-IBIG Fund
A provident savings fund housing open to most private agencies.

(UHLP) United Home Lending Program

This is administered by NHMFC from funds contributed by SSS, HDMF and
GSIS.

(HDMF) Home Development Mutual Fund

This office administers the PAG-IBIG Fund, it entitles Pag-ibig members who
are public and private employees as well as the self-employed to housing loans.

(NHMFC) National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation

The agency mandated to administer take-outs of buyers originated by banks and
developers, faced with administrative problems in loan processing. It also provides
construction and development finance for housing.

(NHA) National Housing Authority

The agency tasked for the building of housing units and residential
condominiums. Facilitates joint venture projects among landowners, developers,
financial institutions and local governments.

(HIGC) Home Insurance Guarantee Corporation

The agency takes care of insuring the subdivisions and is also a lending entity.

(HLURB) Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board

The government’s principal regulatory body in housing and land development.
It is to enforce, implement, coordinate the land use policies and regulations on human
settlements, including building rental laws.