ARC 048 :

PROFESSIONAL
PRACTICE 2
( ADMINISTERING THE REGULAR SERVICES OF ARCHITECT)
 02
THE ARCHITECTURE
and LAW
THE VIRTUES OF AN ARCHITECT
 VIRTUES OF AN ARCHITECT
“ May the Architect be high-minded;
not arrogant, but faithful;
Just and easy to deal with, without avarice;
Not let his mind be occupied in receiving
gifts, but let him preserve his good name with
dignity….”

---Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

THE VALUES OF AN ARCHITECT
● The Architect creates man’s environment through
his awareness and sensitive handling of spaces that
fit the scale of human experience. The resulting
quality of the form-envelope manifested as a
structure or building gives rise to man’s appreciation
of beauty and order in his physical world.

(From UAP Document Architect’s National Code)

● The Architect’s deliberation determine how people
will be placed in relationship one to another, how
whole societies will work, play, eat, sleep, recreate,
travel, worship, or in short how people will live in
consonance with their culture and national
aspirations.

(From UAP Document Architect’s National Code)

● His objective is to bring order to man’s environment
to cause it to function properly within a structure
that is safe and healthful and to impart to the whole
a beauty and distinction that is appropriate to our
time.

(From UAP Document Architect’s National Code)

THE CORE VALUES OF AN
ARCHITECT
• What is taught in architecture
programs, and in highly respected
architectural firms across the nation
that other disciplines do not teach or
practice?
CORES VALUES OF AN ARCHITECT

❑ Architecture are trained in universal design

principles, and how they are applied holistically in
the development of a building, street-space, or town
plan, or in any other design challenge.

❑ This is our critical edge, but only if we stand up as a

profession and enforce those principles in the built
environment, and regain the public’s trust that these
things are important to everyone’s quality of life.
CORES VALUES OF AN ARCHITECT

▪Wisdom ▪ Integrity

▪Creativity ▪ Prudence

▪Resourcefulness ▪ Enlightenment

▪Leadership
CORES VALUES OF AN ARCHITECT

▪ WISDOM
- understanding the meaning and
application of core values in the Vitruvian
axiom “commodity, firmness, delight”
CORES VALUES OF AN ARCHITECT

▪ CREATIVITY
- continuous use of imagination both in
problem solving, and artistic expression; with
drawing, painting, sculpture…and practical
study of the sister arts, adding to the richness
of their solutions”
CORES VALUES OF AN ARCHITECT

▪ RESOURCEFULNESS
- modeling design and building
technologies after natures own laws of order,
and striving for unique solutions that wed
together the highest ideals of beauty and
practical utility
CORES VALUES OF AN ARCHITECT

▪ LEADERSHIP
- Providing artful guidance and
oversight throughout project, like a conductor
leading an orchestra
CORES VALUES OF AN ARCHITECT

▪ INTEGRITY
- Ability to uphold authentic building
traditions and architectural principles without
copying superficial styles; expressing truth in
materials and structure
CORES VALUES OF AN ARCHITECT

▪ PRUDENCE
- Critical judgement, deep insights and
a level of discretion that comes from a
comprehensive understanding of the whole
CORES VALUES OF AN ARCHITECT

▪ ENLIGHTENMENT
- Strong desire to educate the public on the
meaning and value of the architects work in creating
high quality, sustainable environment; and to nurture
their apprentices so they might carry the torch of
architecture into the future.
THE SPECTRUM OF THE
ARCHITECT’S SERVICE
THE SPECTRUM OF THE ARCHITECT’S SERVICES

❑ The Architect's services extend over the

entire range of activities that proceed from
the time the idea is conceived, transformed
into sets of space/ design requirements,
translated into structure through design,
built, used and become a permanent feature
of the man-made environment.
THE SPECTRUM OF THE ARCHITECT’S SERVICES

❑ The Architect's services consist of the

necessary :
❑ conferences, deliberations, discussions,
evaluations, investigations, consultations, advice
on matters affecting the scientific, aesthetic and
orderly coordination of all the processes of
safeguarding life, health, and property which enter
into the production of different levels and
sophistication of man-made structures and
environment.
THE SPECTRUM OF THE ARCHITECT’S SERVICES
❑ The Architect, in the process of translating abstract
ideas :
❑ into meaningful concrete terms, produces
documents in the form of a data base report, an
architectural program, a feasibility study, a market
study, an appraisal report, an impact analysis
report, a space organizational set-up report, a site
planning analysis and evaluation report, an
operational programming report, building
programming and scheduling report
THE SPECTRUM OF THE ARCHITECT’S SERVICES

❑ A complete and detailed documentation of

construction or erection drawings is prepared
consisting of the architectural plans, the structural
plans, the electrical plans, the plumbing/sanitary
plans, the mechanical/air-conditioning plans, the
civil work plans, the technical specifications and the
other bid documents.
THE SPECTRUM OF THE ARCHITECT’S SERVICES

❑ Aside from these, the Architect can prepare the

post construction management documents, the
operating manual, the maintenance manual and
other forms of written and graphical
documentations necessary for the effective and
efficient functioning of the man-made structures
and environment.
THE SPECTRUM OF THE ARCHITECT’S SERVICES

❑ An appreciation of this scope of services of the

Architect will bring into focus the crucial role
that the Architect assumes in the realization of
abstract ideas into tangible and meaningful
terms. Between abstract ideas and the
physical world, stands the Architect.
THE SPECTRUM OF THE ARCHITECT’S SERVICES
❑ The entire range of the Architect’s Service are divided
into seven (7) major services as follows: ( his is based on
the Old SPP or known as The Uap Docs )

❑ Pre-Design Services
❑ Design Services
❑ Specialized Allied Services
❑ Construction Services
❑ Post Construction Services
❑ Comprehensive Architectural Services
❑ Design-build Sevices
Laws and References Governing
the Practice of Architecture and
on the Preparation of
Architectural Documents
A. REPUBLIC ACT 9266 : THE ARCHITECTURE ACT OF 2004

❑ RA 9266 or the Architecture Act of 2004, is an

act providing for a more responsive and
comprehensive regulation for the registration,
licensing and practice of architecture, repealing
for the purpose Republic Act No. 545, as
amended, otherwise known as "an act to
regulate the practice of architecture in the
Philippines," and for other purposes.
B. REPUBLIC ACT 1581

❑ Architects and engineers terms allowed on firm

and partnerships.

❑ Also known as the “An Act to Regulate the

Practice of Architecture in the Philippines”
C. REPUBLIC ACT 545 : The Practice of Architecture

❑ Also known as the “An Act to Regulate the

Practice of Architecture in the Philippines” in
which separates the statutes of the
Architecture from engineering.
D. ALLIED AND DEVELOPMENT LAWS

❑ RA 10350: Philippine Interior Design Act of 2012

❑ RA 10587: Environmental Planning Act of 2013

❑ RA 9053 : Philippine Landscape Architecture Act of

2000

❑ RA 544 : Civil engineering law

❑ RA 4566: Contractors licensing law

E. Laws on Preparation of Architectural Documents
❑ R.A. No. 9266 (The Architecture Act of 2004) & its 2004 IRR -
(governing the practice of the regulated profession of architecture
and architectural interiors, as implemented by the PRC and the
Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture/PRBoA);

❑ P.D. No. 1096 (The 1977 National Building Code of the

Philippines/ NBCP) & its 2004 Revised IRR - governing the
minimum site planning, architectural and architectural interior
standards to be satisfied in the architectural, engineering and
allied planning and design of buildings(structures for human
habitation), as implemented by the DPWH through the LGU
Offices of Building Officials/ OBOs); the 2004 Revised IRR is in
full effect.
E. Laws on Preparation of Architectural Documents

❑ R.A. No. 9514 & its 2009 IRR - (Fire Code of the
Philippines, as implemented by the DILG thru the
LGU Fire Marshals);

❑ B.P. No. 344 & its IRR (Law on Accessibility for

Disabled Persons) - as implemented by various
agencies. (Assign class to download a copy of
Amended IRR of BP344)
F. Republic Act 386 :Civil Code of the Philippines (1949)
❑ Art. 1723:

“ The engineer or architect who drew up the plans and specifications for a
building is liable for damages if within fifteen years (15) from the
completion of the structure, the same should collapse by reason of a
defect in those plans and specifications, or due to the defects in the ground.
The contractor is likewise responsible for the damages if the edifice falls,
within the same period, on account of defects in the construction or the use
of materials of inferior quality furnished by him, or due to any violation of the
terms of the contract. If the engineer or architect supervises the
construction, he shall be solidarily liable with the contractor. “
F. Republic Act 386 :Civil Code of the Philippines (1949)

❑ Acceptance of the building, after completion, does not

imply waiver of any of the cause of action by reason of
any defect mentioned in the preceding paragraph.

❑ The action must be brought within ten years following

the collapse of the building.
What are Architectural
Documents?
ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTS
❑ Per RA 9266 Section 3 (18), it pertains to architectural drawings,
specifications, and other outputs of an Architect that only an Architect can
sign and seal consisting, among others, of vicinity maps, site
development plans, architectural program, perspective drawings,
architectural floor plans, elevations, sections, ceiling plans, schedules,
detailed drawings, technical specifications and cost estimates, and other
instruments of service in any form.

❑ Generally, architectural documents include architectural research

documents and reports and architectural and space programs which are
the sole bases for the architectural plans ,the architectural designs,
architectural specifications and estimates, architectural tender/ bid
documents and periodic construction supervision reports for both
building and site development projects.
3D WHEEL OF A BUILDING
PROJECT
❑ Decision to Build by
the owner

❑ Design Concept by the

Architect-Engineer

❑ Delivery System by
the Contractor
❑ Decision to Build by the Owner

● Purpose, Size, Cost, and Location

● The Owner – who orders for the implementation
of a project
❑ Design Concept by the Architect-Engineer

● Space, Function, Stability, Environment and

Aesthetic
● The Architect and his Engineers- Consultants
who render design services and limited
inspection work.
❑ Delivery System by the Contractor

● Men, Equipment and Material

● The Contractor- who performs the construction
work.
❑ Four principal members in Construction
Process
● Owner
● Architect
● Contractor
● (Assistance) Individuals or group of individuals who assist on the
supervision and delivery of the work. :
■ Project manager
■ Construction Manager
■ Full-time Construction Supervisor
▪ PROJECT MANAGER (SPP DOC.206)
● Primary role is to plan, program and monitor various
activities and act as an adviser on material costs and
construction method.

● They are responsible to exercise the overall cost control.

● Some common activities for PM : Site analysis ,Land

procurement, Marketing and public relations, Budget
management ,Timeline and deadline management, and
Staffing (including the construction manager)
▪ CONSTRUCTION MANAGER (SPP DOC. 204-b)

● Responsible for the practical management and planning of

every stage of a construction project.

● The responsibilities of CM also includes the function of

Construction Supervision Group (CSG) :

■ Coordination and supervision

■ Cost and Time Control
■ Quality control of work
■ Keeping records
▪ FULL-TIME CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR
(SPP DOC. 204-A)
● Is directly and professionally responsible and liable for the
construction supervision of the project.

● The fundamental functions and primary responsibilities of

the construction supervision group :

■ Quality control
■ Evaluation of Construction Work
■ Preparation of Daily Inspection Reports
■ Filing of documents
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