00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862428531 Buklod 20210630235108.0 m | | ta 210630s2003 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00041119732 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-3734 Alarcon, Norma I. author. Reorienting the Filipino architect Norma I. Alarcon. 2003. pages [82]-93 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-93). Architectural education in the Philippines began towards the end of the Spanish era and continued to the American regime. These schools of architecture were established for the training of Master Builders or Maestro de Obras who were allowed to design wooden two-storey structures only. Faced with the enormous task of building up the Philippines, the American colonial government sent some Filipinos (scholars or pensionados) to undergo architectural training abroad. Upon their return to the country, the new architects brought with them foreign design concepts and styles that led to the emergence of an architecture that is quite unconventional to the Filipino culture. In the years that followed, architectural schools that conferred academic degrees were established. The earliest architectural curriculum was patterned from abroad. It has undergone several expansions and revisions in order to adapt to the needs of the times. Today, with about 45 schools of architecture in the country adopting a national curriculum, nowhere in the past and current programs can one find a specific study of western architecture and a semester in Asian architecture with only a few hours apportioned to Philippine study. Today's architectural curriculum explains the current state of architecture in our country and the kind of architectural thinking our professional architects have. There is an utter disregard for the preservation of our architectural legacies while countries abroad are doing massive restoration and conservation on theirs. This is regrettable considering that the Philippines is a culturally rich country. There is a need for the reorientation of the future Filipino architect and this must begin now. After all, architecture is the best cultural showcase of a nation. The Journal of History, Towards a National History of the Philippines: Local History in the Context of National Hsitory Vol. XLIX, Numbers 1-4 (January-December 2003), p. [82]-93. Request full-text access via UPB University Library through https://forms.gle/KZjBv7aRtY6jiL5E9 (viewed 30 June 2021) FI UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-3734 Analytics