HISTORY OF PENSIONADO ACT

The Pensionados were young Filipinos, mostly male, who were sent
to the United States of America on scholarships, including free board
and lodging.

The Pensionado Act of 1903 (or Act 854) refers to the law which
allowed qualified Filipino students to study in the United States.
Passed on 26 August 1903 by Governor General William Howard
Taft's government through the Philippine Commission, this act
provided funds for such students, called Pensionados, to acquire
their college degrees at American schools. 103 students comprised
the first wave of pensionados.

After a month of sailing, the shipload of pensionados docked in San

Francisco, dispersed to small towns, in southern California into homes
of previously selected American families. The young Filipino scholars
were not placed in boarding houses or dormitories, but in the homes
of American families, two to a house, as a rule, and not more than
five or six in the same school. Each student was given an allowance
of US$ 500 which was supposed to last the entire calendar year;
some received additional funds from home, but this was
discouraged.

On 31 July 1904, the pensionados were sent to Missouri to work at

the world fair called “Louisiana Purchase Exposition” where the
principal attractions were the “Philippine Reservation” and the
“Indian Reservation,” on opposite sides of a placid man-made
lagoon. They were chaperoned by Mr and Mrs. William A.
Sutherland. For an entire month, they lived in the “Philippine
Reservation” where Igorrotes ate eat dog meat every day, a major
attraction that Americans talk about to this day. The pensionados
served as guides in the exhibition halls and as waiters in the mess
hall. This made the pensionados the first “tourism frontliners.”
In September, 1904, the pensionados were sent to selected colleges
and universities. Mr. Sutherland reported that “his boys” were
allowed to choose what they wanted to study, but were advised to
select courses that would redound to the benefit of the economic
and social progress of the Philippines.

To keep in touch with each other and folks back home, the
pensionados published a bi-monthly magazine, “The Filipino,” later
renamed,”The Filipino Students’ Magazine.” There they wrote about
their impressions of “a strange country” where there was dignity of
labor, a sense of justice and fair play. They were impressed with the
American democratic system.

After finishing their studies, the pensionados had to return home and
were required to render public service equal to the number of years
they had stayed in the USA. The first Filipino architects (the Arellano
brothers) and engineers (Tomas Mapua) were pensionados and
were immediately absorbed by the Bureau of Public Works and its
Architecture Division. Many became physicians, lawyers, educators,
university presidents, writers, politicians, businessmen, and officers of
the army.

In general, the pensionados became leaders in their communities

because they could speak American English, (essential to success)
and had acquired American tastes that influenced the cultural and
political development of generations of Filipinos.

PENSIONA
DOS
BATCH 1
CARLOS A. BARRETTO

BORN
 DIED
 ALMA MATER

YEAR GRADUATED

N/A
 N/A
 Drexel University

in Philadelphia 1908

Carlos Barretto holds the distinction as the first pensionado architect,

having graduated three years earlier than Mapua, earning his
degree in 1908 from the prestigious Drexel University in Philadelphia.
He was the second (after Mapua) to be officially registered as an
architect in 1921, as required by law that was passed by the
National Assembly that year, one of 22 Filipinos.

Barretto designed the Carnival infrastructures of 1935, built on

exuberant Art Decomotif that was the prevailing style of the
Commonwealth years. After the Liberation, a group of Filipino
architects that included Barretto, organized themselves into the
Philippine Institute ofArchitects which proved to be of great help to
the Philippines’ post-war recovery.

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MANILA CARNIVAL
ANTONIO MAÑALAC TOLEDO

BORN
 DIED
 ALMA MATER YEAR

GRADUATED

N/A
 N/A
 Ohio State

N/A

Antonio Toledo stood out as the youngest pensionado when he was

sent to the United States to study architecture at the age of sixteen.

NOTABLE WORKS
LEYTE PROVINCIAL CAPITOL, 1907 MANILA CITY HALL, 1939

AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE BUILDING, 1940 National Museum of

National History
TOMÁS BAUTISTA MAPÚA
Tomas Mapua was born to Juan Mapua and Justina Bautista-
Mapua on December 21, 1888 in Manila. His education started at
the Ateneo de Manila University and at the Liceo de Manila. In 1903,
he was sent to the United States to complete his high school
education and college education as one of the pensionado
students of the United States. The 1903 Pensionado Law awarded
university scholarships to the US for Filipino exemplary Filipino
students. In exchange, they agreed to work on local government
construction projects. He completed his secondary education at the
Boone’s Preparatory School in Berkeley, California and obtained a
degree in architecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Upon his return to the Philippines, he joined the Bureau of Public

Works where he initially worked as a draftsman in the agency from
1912 to 1917. He was later appointed as the supervising architect for
the Bureau from 1917 to 1928. He spearheaded many government
projects including the Philippine General Hospital Nurses Home,
Psychopathic Building (National Mental Hospital) and the School for
the Deaf and Blind. He also designed the Manila Central Post Office
Building in Ermita, Manila. Tomas became known for his great
contributions in the field of architecture.

Around 1916, Mapua joined the competition for the design of the
new school building initiated by the La Sallian Brothers. He won

the competition against nine other entries and was awarded with a
prize of P5,000.00. (The building, St La Salle Hall, was the only
structure from the Philippines to be included in the coffee table
book, "1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die: The World's
Architectural Masterpieces," authored by Mark Irving and published
by Quintessence Books in 2007.)

He was also one of the first councilors of the City of Manila. He co-
founded and became one of the presidents of the Philippine
Institute of Architects. After retiring from public life, he eventually
went back to the private sector. Aside from MIT, he led his own
construction firm called MYT Construction Works, Inc. His designs for
private homes had also been adjudged as among Manila’s
beautiful houses before World War II.

Mapua married Rita Moya on November 3, 1916. They have three

children, Carmen, Oscar, and Gloria. He died on December 22,
1965 at the age of 77 in Manila.

His son Oscar continued his legacy in education by assuming the

presidency of the Mapua Institute of Technology after his death in
1965. Oscar served as the Institute’s president until his demise on
March 17, 1998. His son and Tomas's grandson, architect Oscar
Mapúa Jr., succeeded him and was the institute’s executive vice
president until December 1999, when the school was acquired by
the Yuchengcos.

He was awarded a gold medal of honor and a certificate of

recognition by the Philippine Institute of Architects. He also received
a Cultural Award in Architecture by the city of Manila in 1964.
BORN DIED

ALMA MATER YEAR GRADUATED

SPOUSE
 CHILDREN

PARENT(S)

December 21, 1888 December 22,

1965

(Age 77) Cornell University

1908
 Rita Moya Carmen, Oscar Sr.,

Gloria
 John Mapua and

Justinia Bautista

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ST. LA SALLE HALL, 1920 PGH NURSES HOME
LIBRADA AVELINO HALL, CEU CUSTOMS BUILDING, ILOILO

TOMAS MAPUA MANSION, 1930

JUAN MARCOS ARELLANO

Juan M. Arellano was born on April 25, 1888 in Tondo Manila,
Philippines to Luis C. Arellano and Bartola de Guzmán. Arellano
married Naty Ocampo on May 15, 1915. He had eight children,
Oscar, Juanita, Cesar, Salvador, Juan Marcos, Luis, Gloria and
Carlos.

He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and graduated in

1908. His first passion was painting and he trained under Lorenzo
Guerrero, Toribio Antillon, and Fabian de la Rosa. However, he
pursued architecture and was sent to the United States as one of
the first pensionados in architecture.

Arellano went to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1911

and subsequently transferred to Drexel to finish his bachelor's degree
in Architecture. He was trained in the Beaux Arts and subsequently
went to work for George B. Post & Sons in New York City, where he
worked for Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.

He then returned to the Philippines to begin a practice with his

brother, Arcadio. He later joined the Bureau of Public Works just as
the last American architects, George Fenhagen and Ralph H.
Doane, were leaving. He and Tomás Mapúa were then named as
supervising architects. In 1927, he took a study leave and went to
the United States where he was greatly influenced by Art Deco
architecture.

In 1930, he returned to Manila and designed the Bulacan Provincial

Capitol,Manila Metropolitan Theater, which was then considered
controversially moderne. He continued to act as a consulting
architect for the Bureau of Public Works where he oversaw the
production of the Manila's first zoning plan. In 1940, he and Harry
Frost created a design for Quezon City, which was to become the
new capital of the Philippines.

It was during that time that he designed the building that would
house the United States High Commission to the Philippines, later the
Embassy of the United States in Manila. He designed a demesne
along the edge of Manila Bay, which featured a mission revival style
mansion that took advantage of the seaside vista. The Americans
instead opted for a federal-style building that ended up overpriced
and uncomfortable.
During World War II, the Legislative Building and Jones Bridge, were
totally destroyed and the Post Office Building was severely
damaged. While these structures were all reconstructed, his original
designs were not followed and were considered poor replications.

Arellano retired in 1956 and went back to painting. In 1960, he

exhibited his work at the Manila YMCA.

BORN BIRTHPLACE DIED

ALMA MATER

YEAR GRADUATED SPOUSE PARENT(S)

April 25, 1888 Binondo, Manila December 5, 1960 (Age

77)

Drexel Institute

Ateneo de Manila 1908

Naty Ocampo
 Luis C. Arellano Bartola de Guzmán

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LEGISLATIVE BUILDING, 1918 (now: National Museum of Fine Arts)

JONES BRIDGE, 1919

RIZAL MEMORIAL STADIUM, 1934

CEBU PROVINCIAL CAPITOL, 1938

MANILA CENTRAL OFFICE, 1926

MANILA METROPOLITAN THEATER, 1930

NEGROS OCCIDENTAL PROVINCIAL CAPITOL,1933

GOTA DE LECHE BUILDING, 1915

TOMAS FERNANDEZ ARGUELLES

Arguelles’ career spanned the Spanish, American and post- war
periods. He received academic training in surveying at San Juan de
Letran, and in architecture at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios (School
of Arts and Trade). Tomas is the father of Carlos Arguelles, himself a
pillar of Philippine modern architecture.

Arguelles started work as an inspector for the Street Car and Manila
Railroad companies from 1884 to 1896, agrimensor (land surveyor
and assessor) for the Recollects in 1897, and maestro de obras in
1898 to 1924. He served in the Revolutionary Army against Spain,
with the rank of captain; the advisory council of the City of Manila;
was one of the founders of the Camara de Comercia Filipina
(Philippine Chamber of Commerce); and founding member of the
Philippine Architects Society (the precursor to the PIA).

In the book, his son and granddaughter write: “Arguelles was

automatically licensed to practice architecture under the Engineers
and Architects Law of 1921. He is holder of Registration No. 9,
granted to him in 1922 when he was already in his senior years. The
license was merely a formality as Arguelles had been

actively practicing in this profession decades earlier.”

Among the structures he designed before he received his license

were the Municipio de Manila or Manila City Hall when it moved out
of Intramuros; the train stations of San Fernando, Pampanga; San
Miguel, Tarlac; and Hondagua, Bicol; President Manuel L. Quezon’s
mansion in Pasay; and the Botica Boie and Burke buildings on Calle
Escolta, to name but a few.

He was an inspector of roads for the Street Car company from 1884
to 1892 and the Manila Railroad Company from 1892-1896. During
the Philippine Revolution, he became a commander of the main
body of Filipino Engineers in the Revolutionary Army.

After the Revolution, he became a councilor of Manila, a position

he held from 1902-1907 and reelected from 1917-1919. Due to the
Engineers and Architects Law of 1921, he was allowed to practice as
an Architect because of his experience as a Maestro de Obras in
the Spanish Period. He became a senior partner in the firm Arguelles
and Magsaysay and later formed a partnership with Fernando
Ocampo.

In 1950, he was elected fellow of the Philippine Institute of Architects

Likewise he is also a member of the Board of Directors of
Arquitectura y Agrimensura de Filipinas, the first professional
organization of Architects and Engineers founded in 1902. He
practiced at the time where Art Deco is also getting popular in
Manila, popular enough to challenge the dominance of the
Neoclassic and Beaux Arts.

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BORN N/A DIED N/A ALMA MATER N/A YEAR GRADUATED
N/A
BOTICA BOIE BUILDING, 1919 HEACOCK’S BUILDING

ARCADIO ARELLANO
Arellano was born on 13 November 1872 in Tondo, Manila. He was
the third child in a brood of fifteen children. His father, Luis Arellano,
was a native of Bulakan, Bulacan and was a builder himself. The
older Arellano built the Franciscan Church at Pinaglabanan, San
Juan, and was also a consultant to Don Juan Hervas, the Spanish
consulting architect, from 1887 to 1883. Arellano's mother was
Bartola de Guzman. One of his uncles was Deodato Arellano, the
propagandist and first president of the Katipunan.

He acquired his elementary education from schools in Tondo. In

1892, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Ateneo
Municipal de Manila. He took further courses in business and
maestro de obras (construction foreman) from the Escuela de Artes
y Oficios where he graduated in 1895.

Arellano also supervised the assessments in Intramuros as ordered by

the Schurman Commission. By 1901, he became technical director
of general assessment for the whole city. He was also able to work
closely with Governor W. H. Taft as his private consulting architect.

On 15 February 1907, he represented the district of Santa Cruz in the

advisory board of Manila, holding the position until 1 July 1908. He
was then appointed member of the municipal board on 8 May 1909
and stayed in the same position until the end of the year.

He was appointed board member anew on 18 October 1913 until

he resigned on 6 May 1915.

On 8 October 1915, he was tasked by the government to prepare

the plans and specifications for the construction of a monument for
the heroes of 1896 under Act 2494. He finished the project a year
later.

Arellano was said to have been a well-dressed and well-groomed

man who loved taking care of horses, hogs, and poultry. He also
loved music and sang in a tenor voice. He collected paintings as
well.

He was married to Amalia Ocampo, daughter of Martin Ocampo,

who was the owner of the publications El Renacimiento and Muling
Pagsilang. They had nine children, namely: Luis, Araceli, Natividad,
Irma, Friné, Arturo, Raul, Otilio, and Elsa.

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BORN BIRTHPLACE DIED

ALMA MATER

YEAR GRADUATED SPOUSE PARENT(S)

November 13, 1872 Tondo, Manila
 April 20,

1920
 (Age 47)

Drexel Institute

Ateneo de Manila 1908

Amalia Ocampo Luis C. Arellano Bartola de

Guzmán
Mausoleum of the Veterans of the Revolution Bahay Nakpil-
Bautista,1914 1920

PENSIONA
DOS
BATCH 2
ANDRES LUNA DE SAN PEDRO
BORN BIRTHPLACE DIED

ALMA MATER

September 9, 1887 Paris, France January 22, 1952 (Age

64)

N/A

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Andrés Pardo de Tavera Luna is a Filipino architect who built the first
air-conditioned building in the Philippines, the Crystal Arcade one of
the popular tenant of Manila Stock Exchange (previous site of Paseo
de Escolta) Building (now present site of City College of Manila-
Escolta Building Demolished 2016) that was once located on No. 71
Escolta Street, Binondo, Manila. He was assigned as the city
architect of the City of Manila from 1920 to 1924. His designs were
modernist. Some of them were lost during World War II.

His parents are Juan N. Luna and Mari Paz Pardo de Tavera- Luna.
He grew up in Paris until he was six years old. His father shot his
mother and his grandmother dead on September 22, 1892. He left
with his father after he was acquitted by a French court in February
1893. After spending six months in Barcelona and Paris, they
travelled by boat along with his uncle, Gen. Antonio N. Luna to
Manila on May 24, 1894.

FIRST UNITED BUILDING, 1928

REGINA BUILDING

CRYSTAL ARCADE
ALFONSO ZOBEL MANSION

FERNANDO HIZON OCAMPO

BORN BIRTHPLACE

DIED
 ALMA MATER

August7, 1897 San Fernando, Pampanga January 22, 1952 (Age 64) University of
Pennsylvania

He was born on August 7, 1897, in San Fernando, Pampanga, he

was the son of Dr. Basilio Ocampo and Leoncia Hizon. One of
Manila's renowned architects, Ocampo was educated at the
Ateneo de Manila A.B., in 1914; University of Santo Tomas, B.S. in Civil
Engineering, 1919; and University of Pennsylvania, B.S. in
Architecture, 1921. Following his graduation from the University of
Pennsylvania, he worked in the office of Mr. Emile Perrot, an
architect in Philadelphia, and then spent two years traveling in
Europe, giving particular attention to architectural designs.
Returning to Manila he was for four years an assistant architect in the
Bureau of Public Works. In 1927 he became associated with
architect Tomas Arguelles and established Arguelles and Ocampo,
architects.

Many of Manila's finest business buildings and residences attest to

Ocampo's ability as an architect and engineer. Among these are
the Manila Cathedral; UST Central Seminary; the Arguelles, Paterno
(later became Far Eastern Air Transport Inc. or FEATI University) at
McArthur Bridge, sta. Cruz, manila, Ayala, Guillermo A. Cu-Unjieng
Building(demolished 1945) at Escolta cor. T. Pinpin Streets, binondo,
manila in 1929; Regina Building at Escolta cor. T. Pinpin Streets,
binondo, manila in 1915 with design and structural collaboration
with Andrés Luna de San Pedro; and Fernandez buildings; the
Assumption Academy of Pampanga, the North Syquia

and Admiral Apartments(demolished 2014) in Malate, and the

residence of Mr. Joaquin Baltazar, the latter having taken the first
prize in the 1930 beautiful home contest. He also designed the
Calvo
 Building at Escolta cor. Soda Streets., Manila in 1938 and the
Eugenio Lopez, Sr. "Boat House" at Iloilo City in 1936.

In 1929 and 1930 Ocampo was a member of the Board of Examiners

for Architects in Manila and in addition to his private practice he
became a member of the faculty of the School of Architecture at
the University of Santo Tomas, Manila.

One of Ocampo's children was renowned basketball player and

coach Ed Ocampo (1938-1992).

NOTABLE WORKS
CRYSTAL ARCADE FIRST UNITED BUILDING, 1928
ALFONSO ZOBEL MANSION REGINA BUILDING
CALVO BUILDING

JUAN FELIPE DE JESUS NAKPIL

BORN BIRTHPLACE DIED

ALMA MATER

ALMA MATER SPOUSE

May 26, 1899
 Quaipo, Manila
 May 7, 1986
 (Age

86)
 University of Kansas Fontainebleau School of
Fine Arts

Juan N. Luna Mari Paz Luna Anita Noble

Juan F. Nakpil, was a Filipino architect, teacher and a community

leader. In 1973, he was named one of the National Artists for
architecture. He was regarded as the Dean of Filipino Architects.

He was eight children of the Philippine Revolution veterans Julio

Nakpil and Gregoria de Jesús (who married the former after the
death of her first husband Andrés Bonifacio). He died in Manila in
1986.

He studied Engineering at the University of the California and later,

at the University of Kansas, where he received his bachelor's degree
in Mechanical Engineering. He then studied Architecture at the
Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts in France upon the
recommendation of Jean Jacques Haffner, one of his professors at
the Harvard Graduate School of Architecture.

Nakpil worked at Andres Luna de San Pedro's architectural firm

(1928) and at Don Gonzalo Puyat & Sons, opening his own
architectural firm in 1930. Among Nakpil's works are San Carlos
Seminary, Geronimo de los Reyes Building, Iglesia ni Cristo Riverside
Locale (Now F. Manalo, San Juan), Magsaysay Building, Rizal
Theater, Capitol Theater, Captain Pepe Building, Manila Jockey
Club, Rufino Building, Philippine Village Hotel, University of the
Philippines Administration and University Library, and the Rizal Shrine
in Calamba, Laguna. He also designed the International Eucharistic
Congress altar and improved the Quiapo Church in 1930 by
erecting a dome and a second belfry. The church burned down in
1929 prior to Nakpil's redesign of the building. In the 1930s to the
1940s, Nakpil

and his fellow architects Andres Luna de San Pedro, Fernando

Ocampo and Pablo Antonio started the period of modern
architecture in the Philippines. Nakpil and others also established the
Philippine College of Design in 1941 but the institution did not survive
the Second World War. He was hailed as a National Artist for
Architecture in 1973.

Nakpil was the first Filipino architect to receive the National Artist
Award for Architecture in 1972. His father was Filipino nationalist and
musician Julian Nakpil, while his mother, Gregoria de Jesus (the
widow of Andres Bonifacio), was one of the heroines of the
Philippine Revolution.

Nakpil studied engineering, which he started at the University of the

Philippines and finished at the University of Kansas. For advanced
studies, he went to Fontainebleau, and earned an MA in
architecture from Harvard University. Nakpil began his practice as a
junior partner of Andres Luna in 1926.

Four years later, he ventured on his own, and in 1953, went into
partnership with his sons Ariston, Elogiol, and Francisco. While
Nakpil’s design was at the forefront of Modernism in Philippine
architecture (some even considered him “too modern”), his
descendants, Arch. Francisco Nakpil and Rebecca Nakpil Tañada,
emphasize in the book that he vigorously promoted architecture
that was “attuned to the climactic, seismological, and
environmental conditions in the country.” This value is seen in his
promotion and preservation efforts of native building materials, as
well as the modern adaptation of indigenous house models,
especially the bahay kubo roof.

Nakpil likewise had a fulfilling and long career in the academe. At

one point, the book says, “The deans of six architecture schools in
Manila were all his former students.”

NOTABLE WORKS
RIZAL SHRINE, LAGUNA

QUEZON HALL, UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

PHILIPPINE VILLAGE HOTEL, MANILA

RIZAL THEATER, MAKATI

CAPITOL THEATER

GAIETY THEATRE

PABLO SEBERO ANTONIO

BORN BIRTHPLACE DIED

ALMA MATER SPOUSE

January 25, 1901 Binondo, Manila
 June 14,

1975
 (Age 74)
 University of Kansas
Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts

Anita Noble

Pablo Sebero Antonio, Sr. was a Filipino architect. A pioneer of

modern Philippine architecture, he was recognized in some quarters
as the foremost Filipino modernist architect of his time.[3] The rank
and title of National Artist of the Philippines was conferred on him by
President Ferdinand Marcos in 1976.

Antonio was born in Binondo, Manila in 1901. He was orphaned by

the age of 12, and had to work in the daytime in order to finish his
high school education and work at night. He studied architecture at
the Mapua Institute of Technology but dropped out of school.

Ramon Arevalo, the engineer in charge of the Legislative Building

project, funded Antonio's education at the University of London. He
completed a five-year architecture course in three years,
graduating in 1927.

Antonio first came into prominence in 1933 with the construction of

the Ideal Theater along Avenida Rizal in Manila. His work caught the
eye of the founder of the Far Eastern University in Manila, Dr. Nicanor
B. Reyes, Sr., who was looking to build a school campus that was
modern in style. Between 1938 and 1950, he designed several
buildings on the university campus in the Art Deco style. The FEU
campus is considered as the largest ensemble of

surviving Art Deco architecture in Manila, and in 2005, it received an

Honorable Mention citation from the UNESCO for the body's 2005
Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation.

Antonio also designed the White Cross Orphanage (1938) along

Santolan Road in San Juan City, and the Manila Polo Club (1950) in
Makati City. He likewise designed the Ramon Roces Publications
Building (now Guzman Institute of Electronics) in Soler Street in
Manila, the Capitan Luis Gonzaga Building (1953), and the
Boulevard-Alhambra (now called Bel-Air) Apartments Building in
Roxas Boulevard & where Manila Bay Hostel is located on the 4th
floor. The art deco apartment is near T. M. Kalaw Avenue & beside
Miramar Hotel. It was built in 1937.

Apart from the Ideal Theater, Antonio also designed several other
theaters in Manila, including the Dalisay, Forum, Galaxy, Life (1941),
Lyric and Scala Theaters. As of 2014, only the Forum, Life and Scala
Theaters remain standing; though the Forum and Scala Theaters
have been gutted.

Antonio's architecture and its adoption of Art Deco techniques was

radical for its day, neoclassicism being the dominant motif of
Philippine architecture when he began his career. His style was
noted for its simplicity and clean structural design. He was cited for
taking Philippine architecture into a new direction, with "clean lines,
plain surfaces, and bold rectangular masses." Antonio strove to
make each building unique, avoiding obvious trademarks.

Antonio was also conscious of adapting his buildings to the tropical

climate of the Philippines. In order to highlight natural light and also
avoid rain seepage, he utilized sunscreens, slanted windows and
other devices. Antonio himself has been quoted as stating that
"buildings should be planned with austerity in mind and its stability
forever as the aim of true architecture, that buildings must be
progressive, simple in design but dignified, true to a purpose without
resorting to an applied set of aesthetics and should eternally
recreate truth".

When he was named National Artist of the Philippines in 1976, he

was only the second architect so honored, after his contemporary,
Juan Nakpil. His eldest son Architect Pablo Reyes Antonio Jr. restored
some art deco FEU Campus Buildings.
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FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY LIFE THEATER, QUEZON AVENUE

PHILIPPINE VILLAGE HOTEL, MANILA GALAXY THEATER