the pensionado

- The Pensionado Act of 1903 (or Act 854)

 The
pensionado
act of the
philippines

-- refers to the law which allowed

qualified Filipino students to study in
the United States. Passed on 26 August
1903 by Governor General William
Howard Taft's government through the
Philippine Commission, this act
provided funds for such students, called
Pensionados, to acquire their college
degrees at American schools.

The first Pensionados at the St. Louis Exposition in 1903.

Juan m. arellano
Juan Marcos Arellano y de Guzmán
(April 25, 1888 – December 5, 1960), or
Juan M. Arellano, was a Filipino architect.
One of the first Filipinos to be sent abroad
as a pensionado (government scholar).
Life of

Juan m. arellano
Juan M. Arellano (Hu · wán eM A · rel · yá · no) is one of
the best architects in Philippine history. Many of his
buildings that remain standing are considered great symbols
of Filipino architecture and art. He is known for his use of
Neoclassical and Art Deco styles in his works.

He was born on April 25, 1888 in Tondo, Manila to Luis C.

Arellano and Bartola de Guzmán. He studied at the Ateneo
Municipal de Manila. His first passion was painting, and he
trained under Lorenzo Guerrero, Toribio Antillon, and
Fabian de la Rosa. He chose to hone his talent in other forms
of art and was sent to the United States as one of the first
retirees in the field of architecture. In 1911, he entered the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before moving to
the Drexel Institute to complete his degree. He first worked
in New York City before returning to the Philippines. He
served as the supervising architect of the Bureau of Public
Works with Tomas Mapua. In addition to the projects listed
above, he and Harry Frost created the design for Quezon
City, which will be the country's new capital. He had a child
with his wife Naty Ocampo. A few years before he passed
away, he returned to painting and exhibited works at the
Manila YMCA. He died on December 5, 1960.
Juan m. arellano’s
architectural works
1926 Manila central post
office
The Manila Central Post Office, often
called the Post Office Building, is the
main postal office of Manila, which
also serves as the home of the
Philippine Postal Corporation. It also
houses the main mail sorting-
distribution operations of the
Philippines
The original building was designed by
Juan M. Arellano and Tomás Mapúa in
The Manila Post Office was strategically located by Daniel Burnham at
neoclassical style. The construction of
the foot of Jones Bridge because of two reasons. First was that the Pasig
the building began on 1926 under the
River could be used conveniently as an easy route for delivering mail and
supervision of the architecture firm of
secondly, the post office could be accessible from all sides including
Pedro Siochi and Company. However, it
Quiapo, Binondo, Malate, and Ermita.
was severely damaged in World War II
Considered to be Juan Arellano's magnum opus, it was during the Battle of Manila and was
designed in the neoclassical style that expressed order subsequently rebuilt in 1946 while
and balance. It was built in 1926 and was worth one retaining most of its original design
million pesos. Fronting the huge, rectangular volume are
the 16 Ionic pillars lined that are lined up above the steps
just before entering the lobby.[5] The main body of the
building is capped by a recessed rectangular attic storey
and flanked and buttressed by two semi-circular wings.
Inside, the main lobby has subsidiary halls at each end
housed under the semi-circular spaces roofed with domes
1926
Legislative building
The old Legislative Building is, without a doubt, the best
example of neo-classical architecture in the Philippines. It
has been the place for the country's statesmen for decades, it
has witnessed wars, demonstrations and calamities.

The building today is the present National Museum of the

Philippines. Located on Burgos Drive, this imposing edifice
stands across the old walled city of Manila (Intramuros).
Originally designed by the American Ralph Harrington
Doane and Filipino Antonio Toledo in 1918 to be the future
National Library as intended for the Burnham Plan of
Manila.

A two-storey, four-columned portico adorned the

entrance of the Legislative Building. Over it is a
triangular pediment with sculptures representing
Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, Law, Education,
Commerce, and Agriculture. On each end of the
building is a two-columned portico complimenting its
central facade. The sculptures were designed and made
by Otto Fischer-Credo, a German expatriate who
resided in the Philippines during the pre-war years..
 1932
Central student church

First Protestant Church in the

Philippines. Established to preach
to the Americans and the Filipinos,
5 March 1899. Inaugurated the first
chapel named Central Methodist
Episcopal Church, 23 December
1901. Replaced with stone
structure, 1906. Renamed Central
Student Church, 1916.

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun

and the smallest one in the Solar
System. The planet’s name has nothing
to do with the liquid metal
Cathedral Designed by Juan M. Arellano;
inaugurated, 19 June 1932. Occupied by
the Japanese and destroyed during the
Battle for Manila, 1945. Renamed Central
Church, 21 February 1949. Rebuilt
following orignal design; inauguarated, 25
December 1949. Presentlly known as
Central United Methodist Church.
1934
Rizal memorial sports
complex
Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium
The Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium is a baseball
stadium located inside the Rizal Memorial Sports
Complex in Manila, Philippines. It has a seating
capacity of 10,000.
The Rizal Memorial Stadium is considered to be an
Art Deco architectural design that incorporated
streamlines and simpler lines, flat surfaces and
rounded edges. The design represented stability and
modernity. The complex, built under the supervision
of architect Juan Arellano, started construction in
1927.
Rizal Memorial Stadium
The Rizal Memorial Track and Football Stadium (or
simply known as the Rizal Memorial Stadium since it is
the main stadium within the Rizal Memorial Sports
Complex) is the home of the Philippines National Football
Team. It served as the main stadium of the 1954 Asian
Games and the Southeast Asian Games on three occasions.
The stadium is also officially the home of the Philippines
national football team and some Philippines Football
League matches.
1934
Rizal memorial sports
complex
Rizal Memorial library & museum
Rizal Memorial Library and Museum is a three-story,
pre-war, neoclassical heritage site and landmark in
Cebu City, Philippines. Dedicated to the national
hero, Jose P. Rizal, it was designed by Filipino
architect Juan Marcos Arellano, who also designed
the Cebu Provincial Capitol building. Inaugurated in
1939, the building survived World War II. It is located
along Osmeña Boulevard and houses the offices of
Cebu City Tourism, the Cultural and Historical Affairs
Commission, the Sinulog Hall on the third floor, the
Cebu City Museum of Visual Arts on the second floor,
and the Cebu City Public Library on the ground floor.
Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium
The Rizal Memorial Coliseum within the Rizal Memorial
Sports Complex was built on the former site of Manila
Carnival Grounds[1] in 1934 as a tennis stadium named
"Rizal Memorial Tennis Stadium", but was later renamed
“Rizal Memorial Coliseum” at an unknown time. It
became a primary venue for the UAAP and the NCAA,
before moving to much-larger venues such as the Araneta
Coliseum. It was one of the buildings that were destroyed
during the Battle of Manila of World War II in 1945 and
was reconstructed in 1953 for the 1954 Asian Games.
The Rizal Memorial Coliseum exhibits an Art Deco style
architecture, particularly Streamline Moderne.
1934
Old jaro
municipal hall
The (Old) Jaro Municipal
Hall (Spanish: Municipio de
Jaro) is a heritage building
which previously served as
the seat of government of the
former city of Jaro in Iloilo
province.
Juan Arellano is the architect of the Art deco
building. The historic building is 2-storeys high,
made from a mix of concrete, and has a footprint
of less than 100 square meters (1,100 sq ft).
Old ilo-ilo city hall
The University of the Philippines Visayas
Main Building, also sometimes referred to as
the Old Iloilo City Hall, is a historic building
in Iloilo City which currently serves as the
primary building of the Iloilo City campus of
the University of the Philippines (UP)
Visayas. It was previously used as the city
hall for Iloilo City.
The building was made in the neo-classical
design. The law and order bronze male
statues present in the building's facade was
made by Italian sculptor Francesco Riccardo
Monti. The building's main features are the
Court Room and the Session Hall, the latter
which is also known as the Lozano Hall.
1935
1935
Metropolitan
theater
The Manila Metropolitan Theater building was designed by the
Filipino architect Juan Arellano, who stated that he drew the plans
or the building with the phrase, “On Wings of Song”, in mind.
The theater was inaugurated on December 10, 1931, with a
capacity of 1670 (846 orchestra, 116 in loge, and 708 in balcony).
01

n its heyday, it was the home of operas, the Manila Symphony

and a symbol of fine arts and high society of prewar Manila. The
art deco style by Arellano was enhanced by sculptures in the
açade of the theatre by Italian sculptor Francesco Riccardo
Monti , who lived in Manila from 1930 until his death in 1958.
Highly stylized relief carving of Philippine plants executed by the
artist Isabelo Tampingco decorated the lobby walls and interior
urfaces of the building.
The most striking feature is the great decorative window of translucent
glass, brilliantly lighted at night, which corresponds in shape and size to the
proscenium opening within the theater. The facade definitely suggests a
place of music, with its rounded upper outline broken by many light vertical
elements and slender pinnacles or “finals”.

This stained glass facade was commissioned by Kraut Art Glass established
by family patriarch Mr. Mattias Kraut . Kraut company is famous for their
art glasses since 1912 and the proscenium was done by the House of Pre-
Cast.

On December 10, 1931, the inspired architecture of brothers Juan Arellano

and Arcadio Arellano, following the American architectural planner Mr.
Daniel Burnham lured by the unique opportunity of designing in tropical
Asia, was completed; a beautiful example of art deco of the Thirties and,
some would say, the Golden Age of Manila during the American colonial
administration.

Metropolitan Theater – architectural drawing

 1935 1940
Misamis occidental Cotabato municipal hall
provincial
capitol

Old Cotabato City Hall Museum is a city museum

fronting Rizal Park Plaza in Cotabato City, Philippines.
The structure was built in 1940s as the Municipal Hall
of former Municipality of Cotabato also served as the
visitors information center.
Designed by the Filipino architect Juan Arellano before
the war, this building is a legacy of neo vernacular
architecture. Juan Arellano appropriated the Tausug
gable roof and pinnacled it with an elaborately carved
cross-gable finials based on the naga tajuk pasung.
1936 The Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol Building
Negros occidental provincial followed Daniel Burnham's Beaux Art style. When
William Cameron Forbes was the governor general
capitol in the Philippines in 1904, he invited Burnham to
the country, who, in turn, recommended as
consulting architect to the government William E.
The Negros Occidental Provincial Capitol is the seat of the Parsons. When he arrived in 1905, Parsons
provincial government of Negros Occidental located at established the architectural office of the Bureau of
Gatuslao St., Bacolod, Philippines. Within its complex is the Public Works which was composed of American
Capitol Park and Lagoon. and Filipino architects, such as Juan Nakpil, Tomas
Mapua, and Juan de Guzman Arellano] Using the
neo-classical architectural design of Burnham for
the capitol, Juan Arellano executed the project.

The building is built in a shape of the letter E

composed of the main entrance, which is the
middle part, and of the wings on both sides of the ..
center. The prominent feature of the central section
are wide steps that lead to colonnades of about
three-story high and with Corinthian capitals on the
upper portion.

The works of National Artist for Sculpture Guillermo

Tolentino are displayed in the capitol building and
the lagoon fronting the building
 1937
Cebu provincial
capitol
The Cebu Provincial Capitol is the seat
of the provincial government of Cebu in
the Philippines. Located at the north
end of Osmeña Boulevard in Cebu City,
it was designed by Juan M. Arellano, a
Filipino architect best known for the
Manila Metropolitan Theater (1935), the
Legislative Building (1926; now the
National Museum of the Philippines), The building follows an H-shaped plan, one side opening to the
and the Manila Central Post Office terminus of Osmeña Boulevard. The main block or corps de
(1926). An inscription on the central logis, three stories high, is flanked by two secondary wings,
concave portion of its façade reads, symmetrically advancing to embrace a rectangular, elevated
"The authority of the government cour d'honneur that serves as an entrance podium. The
emanates from the people. Erected A.D. elevation of the corps de logis is of typical neoclassical formula:
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun
MCMXXXVII.“ a rusticated ground floor, containing minor rooms and offices,
and the smallest one in the Solar
the piano nobile above, with the most important spaces, and
System.
The Cebu The planet’s
Provincial nameishas nothing
Capitol finally the attic story. A heavy cornice and parapet caps the
dramaticallytopositioned
do with the at
liquid metalof a
the end façade, with allegorical statues standing by its corners. The
grand perspective of a new avenue most distinctive part of the façade is the central concave
(Osmeña Boulevard) as conceived by pavilion, which creates the semi-circular main balcony and pulls
William E. Parsons in his 1912 plan of together the entire mass, finally crowned by an austere dome
Cebu, in the lines of the City Beautiful upon an octagonal drum.
Movement.
1940
Bank of the Philippine
Islands Cebu Main
Branch

The Bank of the Philippine Islands – Cebu

Main Branch located at Magallanes Street just
within
Plaza Sugbo will soon be home to a museum
featuring some of the bank’s old fixtures.
Actually the
..
bank building is a museum in itself having
been built in the 1940s following the design of
UStrained architect Juan M. Arellano. It’s worth
mentioning that among Arellano’s
masterpieces
include the Cebu Provincial Capitol, the Manila
Metropolitan Theater, the Manila Central Post
Office, and the former Legislative Building
which now houses the National Museum of the
Philippines.
 1940
Jones bridge
The William A. Jones Memorial Bridge,
commonly known as the Jones Bridge, is
an arched girder bridge that spans the
Pasig River in the City of Manila,
Philippines.

Originally designed by Filipino architect

Juan M. Arellano using Neoclassical
architecture, the first incarnation of the
bridge features three arches resting on
two heavy piers, adorned by faux-stone
and concrete ornaments, as well as four
sculptures on concrete plinths allegorically The original bridge was destroyed during the World War II by
representing motherhood and nationhood. retreating Japanese troops and was reconstructed in 1946 by
The original bridge was destroyed during the U.S. and Philippine public works. The reconstructed bridge
the World War II by retreating Japanese retained the three arches and two piers but removed all of the
troops and was reconstructed ornaments. The bridge was first partially restored in 1998. In
Mercury is the closest planetinto1946 by
the Sun 2019, the City Government of Manila began a rehabilitation
the U.S. and
andthe
Philippine public
smallest one works.
in the Solar project to "restore" the Jones Bridge to its near-original design
System. The planet’s name has nothing using Beaux-Arts architecture similar to that of Pont Alexandre
to do with the liquid metal III in Paris and the return of all four La Madre Filipina
sculptures.
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