STRUCTURE Lever House, New York Chrysler Building, New York Geodesic Dome Sydney Opera House Solomon

Guggenheim Museum Parliament Buildings, Brazil Bauhaus Building, Germany Einstein Tower Chapel of Notre Dame Cultural Center of the Philippines Tahanang Filipino or Coconut Palace Asian Development Bank, Philippines San Miguel Corporation Building Bank of China, Hong Kong Twa Kennedy Airport, New York AT & T Building, New York

ARCHITECT Skidmore, Owings & Merril William Van Alen Buckminster Fuller Jorn Utzon Frank Lloyd Wright Lucio Costa & Oscar Nimeyer Walter Gropius Eirch Mendelsohn Le Corbusier Leandro Locsin Francisco Bobby Manosa C.C. de Castro Manuel Manosa I.M. Pei Eero Saarinen Philip Johnson

FAMOUS DICTUMS/PHILOSOPHIES/SAYINGS Form follows function - Louis Sullivan Form does not necessarily follow function -Antonio Gaudi Art and Architecture, the new unity - Walter Gropius A house is a house - Louis Kahn Cube within a cube - Le Corbusier A bridge is like a house - Robert Maillart Less is more - Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe Function influence but does not dictate form - Ecro Saarinen Modern architecture need not to be Western - Kenzo Tange Archtiecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity - Marcus Vitruvius Pocio

AGENCIES INVOLVED IN SHELTER (HUDCC) Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council

An office mandated to coordinate and supervise the governments housing agencies. It is also tasked in monitoring the performance of the housing sector, and involved in policy formations. (SSS) Social Security System The insurance system for the private sector, where coverage is compulsory upon all employees not over sixty years of age. (GSIS) Government Service Insurance System The insurance system for the Public sector or the government employee PAG-IBIG Fund A provident savings fund housing open to most private agencies. (UHLP) United Home Lending Program This is administered by NHMFC from funds contributed by SSS, HDMF and GSIS. (HDMF) Home Development Mutual Fund This office administers the PAG-IBIG Fund, it entitles Pag-ibig members who are public and private employees as well as the self-employed to housing loans. (NHMFC) National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation The agency mandated to administer take-outs of buyers originated by banks and developers, faced with administrative problems in loan processing. It also provides construction and development finance for housing. (NHA) National Housing Authority The agency tasked for the building of housing units and residential condominiums. Facilitates joint venture projects among landowners, developers, financial institutions and local governments. (HIGC) Home Insurance Guarantee Corporation The agency takes care of insuring the subdivisions and is also a lending entity. (HLURB) Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board The governments principal regulatory body in housing and land development. It is to enforce, implement, coordinate the land use policies and regulations on human settlements, including building rental laws.