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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 Code

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RA 9266 architecture act of 2004
17 Mar 2004
RA 4566 contractors 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.
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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