14TH OF 2012

Just to reach the 14th post of 2012. 

GEAR UP

Gear up.  Machines oiled. Verbs and adjectives reused for toil. 

UNCERTAINTY THE DRIVER

The world, one uncertain world.  Uncompromising and misunderstood.  Keeping you there.  You're always there and these words are empty just like you. These words stands to reason you remain while them people leave you behind.  Happy you are, new one has arrived.  Born.

NATURE AND TRASH

I'm stuck to thinking about Architecture almost very minute of everyday the past few days.  I've been forming things inside my head on almost everything around. Function follows form, right? Let's try that.. wonder how it would look to form structures that look like a chipped, dirty cup, leaning stacked soup bowls, distorted forks, broken plates, bent metals, screws and nails, squeezed lemons, dusty books , crawling vines,  stored beer bottles and oddly, unmade bed. Unfolded blankets, soaps,  shaped whiskey bottles, brown, dried leaves,. Or thrown broken ceramic tiles, discarded boxes, empty plastic bottles and containers stones, cigarette butts and ashes.

Anything that's left standing nearby, on the garbage, near the doorway, the kitchen or the pavement.  It happens when I'm in bed , inside the toilet, and anywhere.  What else?/ Is it good to form buildings that look like rusting cans, leaves, flying cellophanes , spinning electric fan propellers, dead ants, stinking rats, ropes, sagging clotheslines, rolling bolts, dry and hard used paint brushes, pesky insects, hard dried spilled latex paint, egg trays, crumpled papers, fish head bones,  cut up tree branches.

Its like living on a not to scale environment..You'd never have to mold 'em. They're what they are.  You'll just have to pick them up.  Put it on your empty drafting table, take pictures of it and hope to see a different useful view or perspective. See the front, rear, right and left side elevations. top , bottom, x, y, and z coordinates...whatever dimensions...Then and think of the insides later on.

Next thing you know, you can just point it out to yourself or to the draftsman, "That's how I want my building should look like!"  ...and he could reply "Oh, a white spiral dung! Cool!.."  Put windows, doors, rooms and all...we'd call it The White Spiral"..what's the big deal?, it's just a non-functional form. at least for now.

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE PHILIPPINES

It's easy to get lost in the internet.  I was reading and searching on through this online world for videos, audio and books about Philippine Architecture.  More than three years of endless search for its substance, its evolution and progress.  I learned so much and willing to see much more.  I found out that there are only four people honored, ranked and proclaimed as "National Artist of the Philippines" by the President of the Philippines for its significant contribution in the field of Architecture.  They were Pablo Antonio, Juan Nakpil, Leandro Locsin and Landscape Architect, Ildefonso Santos.  In relation to this, I'd like to share a videographic that I was able to compile about a PUP Architecture Student's Project: "Filipino Architect", featuring the best Filipino Architects. I merged the videos I found and stemmed them into one.  I don't know if that blog would churn about this but I am acknowledging this project as theirs of course.  Just sharing what they shared so other people could see something they might have overlooked about Philippine Architecture.  And lastly, I am sharing this solely for posterity and educational purposes.  The video shows in pictures the History of Philippine Architecture and its pillars.  A project of two students from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Along with it comes the "Unwritten History of Philippine Architecture" project video submitted by Christine Antonio to Sir Antonio de Vera. These videos were clearly made as school projects. These students must be Architects themselves nowadays.  The video features Architects Juan Nakpil, Leandro Locsin. Pablo Antonio, Francisco Mañosa, Felino Palafox.

Featured Architects and their Outstanding Works

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