He is one of the first four Pensionados who

graduated with a degree in Architecture from Cornell

University in 1911 and founded Mapua Institute of
TOMAS B.
Technology (MIT) on Jan. 1925. In 2005, MIT was
transformed into a University.
MAPUA
First Registered Architect

He holds the distinction as the first

pensionado architect, having graduated three years
earlier than Mapua in 1908 from the prestigious
Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is also the CARLOS A.
second registered Architect in the Philippines.
BARRETTO
First Pensionado Architect

At the age of sixteen, he stood out as the

youngest pensionado when he was sent to the Ohio
State University to study Architecture and graduated ANTONIO M.
in 1911. He is also the third registered Architect in the
Philippines. TOLEDO
Youngest Pensionado

He pursued Architecture as a scholar at

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1911, before
finishing his course at Drexel, where Barretto had
JUAN M.
finished a few years before. In 1922, he was the chief
architecture of the Manila Carnival.
ARELLANO
Medal of Merit Awardee

Beginning in 1903, the Insular government

had launched a scholarship program that allowed
FILIPINO ARCHITECTS: Filipino students to pursue university education in the
United States known as the Pensionado program.
The First Pensionados.