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INTRODUCTION
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WHEN DID LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE STARTED IN THE
PHILIPPINES?
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Many of these foreign firms offer
planning, urban design and landscape
architecture up to design development
stage. Locals are often called in late in
the process and given directives to just
follow the schemes prepared by these
foreign firms. What is discovered in a
good number of these designs is that the
local cultural use of spaces is unknown
or misunderstood, token nods to local
aesthetics are made, usually by lifting
patterns from local sourcebooks but
without understanding the context of the
Philippines and its multi-cultural
ethnicity. Manila and many other
regional centers of growth are seeing
TAGAYTAY HIGHLANDS GOLF AND
copies of landscapes imported almost
COUNTRY CLUB
wholly from abroad. The results are
borrowed landscapes with no cultural
specificity or real sense of place.
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years of his creative life and poured his
energies to mitigating the madness of
WHO IS THE FATHER OF LANDSCAPE modern lives that are much too
ARCHITECTURE IN THE PHILIPPINES? separated
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from nature. IP (as he is known to those
in the design fields) has designed
hundreds of parks, gardens, plazas,
courtyards, memorial parks, recreation
and leisure facilities, resorts, hotel
grounds, campuses, streetscapes and
cityscapes that have contributed to
improving the lives of Filipinos.
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Back in Manila the 80s brought a slight
slowdown in work but IP Santos kept
busy with teaching. He had helped set
up the first undergraduate program in
Landscape Architecture at the University
of the Philippines in 1975. He kept this
going while expanding the program to a
Masters program in Tropical Landscape
Architecture. In this decade he continues
his overseas work with the Gulf Hotel
in Bahrain, the Taiwan Golf &
MAKATI COMMERCIAL CEN Country Club in Taipei and the
Chung Kiaw Bank HQ in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
Another innovative landscape typology
that IP introduced was the picturesque
memorial parks. The Puyats were the
client and the resulting Loyola
Memorial Gardens and Parks became
a chain of sought-after memorial
gardens that today still set the standard.
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IP developed a tropical landscape
architecture style that made use of
endemic plant materials, local stone, arts
and crafts, metalwork all in a studied
casualness that made it distinct from
hard and cold western design. IP also
added soul to his creations by providing
lyrical settings for the sculptural work of
National Artists Napoleon Abueva and
THE GULF HOTEL IN BAHRAIN Arturo Luz along with a veritable
whos who of Philippine sculpture
namely Castrillo, Orlina, Caedo,
Saprid, Fernandez and a host of others.
The 1990s saw the resurgence of real
estate and more opportunities for
distinctive landscape design. In this
decade he designed the interior
plantscaping of the Asia World Hyatt
Taipei, the raised gardens of the New
World Hotel in Makati, the Artists
Village and the Light & Sound
Tableau (Rizals Execution) at the
Rizal Park, the Taicheung Housing THE ORCHARD GOLF AND COUNTRY
Complex in Taiwan, the NAIA CLUB
Centennial Terminal II, and the New
World Hotel in Ho Chi Minh,
Vietnam 1996.
Even at the turn of the century and at the THE DUMAGUETE GOLF AND COUNTRY
CLUB IN NEGROS ORIENTAL
three decade mark, Santos did not let up
in his mission to create appropriate
settings for modern lives. He worked on
the Dumaguete Golf and Country
Club in Negros Oriental, the Makiling
Hills project in Laguna, the Pioneer
Highlands Complex in Pasig and the
Metropolis Green complex in Cavite.
He continuous work on these and a
dozen other projects to this day.
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all of whom would do well to emulate
his passion and help him continue his
good work. Our collective physical,
mental and creative wellbeing would
benefit immensely if only, as IP
teaches us, we learn to live, work and
build in harmony with nature.
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GLOSSARY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://joeybalgos.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/philippine-landscape-architecture-for-2000-2010/
http://www.rappler.com/life-and-style/arts-and-culture/49277-national-artist-ildefonso-santos-jr-passes-
away
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ildefonso_P._Santos_Jr.
https://joeybalgos.wordpress.com/tag/designer-green-issue/
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-architecture-firm.htm
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/G/greenfield.html
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/development.html
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