ANGEL S. NAKPIL (1914-1980) Eminent Architect An eminent architect, Angel S. Nakpil was born on February 20, 1914.

His parents were Enriqueta Sancho and Ramon Nakpil, a government pensionado in the United States who studied industrial design. His marriage to Carmen Diaz ended with her death. Their union gave him two daughters. He then married a widow, Carmen Guerrero. They had three children, one of whom Luis, is also an architect. The nation al artist Juan Nakpil was his cousin. Nakpil finished high school at De la Salle College (now a university), and architecture at the University of Santo Tomas in 1936. He spent time doing graduate work in Harvard University. There he came to know Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus in Germany and an exponent of the international style, who was then a professor at Harvard, Nakpil earned a master s degree in regional planning in 1940. He was a member of Philippine Institute of Architects and was a charter member of the United Architects of the Philippines, which was founded in 1975. In 1974, Nakpil was given the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Award by the City of Manila. He died on November 2, 1980.

Francisco Maosa is a Filipino architect and national artist noted for his Filipino inspired architectural designs. He designed The Coconut Palace. Manosa, on May, 2008 built his own Ayala alabang village Bahay Kubo mansion. With only 3 posts or "haligi", it has 5 one-inch coconut shell doors, 2nd floor, a "silong", Muslim room, sala, and master's bedroom with a fish pond therein.

Peter Vetsch runs his own architecture office in Dietikon, (Switzerland) since 1978. Since the late 1970s, Peter Vetsch has made a name for himself with his earth house architecture. To date he has built over 47 earth houses in Switzerland and other countries throughout the world. Earth houses by Peter Vetsch are based on the interpretation of an environmentally conscious, ecological and progressive architecture. Next to the earth

houses, Peter Vetsch also builds conventional houses. With his technology (sprayed concrete constructions) he manages to create building shells which encompass maximum space volume with a minimum of surface area, an ideal form for energy saving. These constructions eschew right angles and their spatial diversity overcomes the the monotony of traditional normed designs. They remind us of Antoni Gaud's organic forms as well as Jugendstil architecture. David Adler (January 3, 1882 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in Libertyville, Illinois) was a prolific architect, designing over 200 buildings. He was the son of Therese and Issac Adlerand had one sister, Frances Adler Elkins, who became one of the mid 20th-century's great interior decorators and often worked with her brother on residential projects. September 27, 1949

The Crane mansion at Castle Hill, designed by David Adler After graduating from Princeton in 1904, he travelled extensively, mostly studying and observing the architecture of Europe. After returning to the United States in 1911, he began working for Howard Van Doren Shaw in Chicago, Illinois. After a short period, he opened a new office with a friend from Paris,Henry Dangler. David married Katherine Keith, an Illinois socialite and writer, in 1916 and they moved to Libertyville one year later. He became a widower in 1930 after his wife was killed in a car accident in Europe. Working in association with his partners, first Henry Dangler who died in 1917, and then Robert Work, Adler wasn't registered as an architect in Illinoisuntil 1929, which was after he had already been elected to the American Institute of Architects. Archival materials are held by the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries at the Art Institute of Chicago. The David Adler Collection includes photographs, research files and materials collected and produced by the museum's Department of Architecture for the 2001 exhibition "David Adler, Architect: The Elements of Style." A publication was also produced for this exhibition. David Adler was a trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago for 25 years. He is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.