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RARE ARCHIVAL FIND: Nurse's Home (1938) Philippine General Hospital, Manila Architect: Tomas Mapua

The document provides information on several notable Filipino architects and some of their works: - Tomas Mapua designed the Nurses' Home at the Philippine General Hospital in 1938 in a Renaissance style. - The Perkins house in Manila, designed in the 1920s-30s, stood out among other homes of prominent families for its Beaux Arts style. - Juan Nakpil designed Quezon Hall at the University of the Philippines with Neoclassical details and symbolism of knowledge and service. - Pablo Antonio designed the art deco-style Galaxy Theater in Manila in the 1930s. - Leandro Locsin was renowned for his modern tropical designs that incorporated natural ventilation, such as the Parish of the

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RARE ARCHIVAL FIND: Nurse's Home (1938) Philippine General Hospital, Manila Architect: Tomas Mapua

The document provides information on several notable Filipino architects and some of their works: - Tomas Mapua designed the Nurses' Home at the Philippine General Hospital in 1938 in a Renaissance style. - The Perkins house in Manila, designed in the 1920s-30s, stood out among other homes of prominent families for its Beaux Arts style. - Juan Nakpil designed Quezon Hall at the University of the Philippines with Neoclassical details and symbolism of knowledge and service. - Pablo Antonio designed the art deco-style Galaxy Theater in Manila in the 1930s. - Leandro Locsin was renowned for his modern tropical designs that incorporated natural ventilation, such as the Parish of the

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Tomas Mapua

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RARE ARCHIVAL FIND: Nurse’s Home (1938)


Philippine General Hospital, Manila
Architect: Tomas Mapua
The building’s architectural imagery was derived from the Renaissance idiom. The symmetrical façade is
apportioned into three horizontal zones: Florentine arcaded entry at the first level; quadrangular windows laced
by simple cornices on top in the middle; and, surmounted by balustraded balcony with arches severed by Ionic
pilasters. The entrance was accentuated by slightly protruding Corinthian columns crowned by Renaissance
anthropomorphic statues and lead to an open patio.--GL

Andres Luna de San Pedro 


http://arquitecturamanila.blogspot.com/2014/03/am-shorts-ea-perkins-residence.html
Perkins house on Dewey Boulevard

In pre-war Manila, houses of illustrious families were designed by well-known architects according to their
elegant tastes. Their homes were either designed in the renaissance, art-deco, beaux-arts, or the traditional
Filipino bahay na bato style. But one house stood out among the rest, and this was the El Nido, the residence of
Eugene Arthur 'E.A.' Perkins, and his wife Idonah Slade. The house and the family became the center of
intrigue among Manila's high society because of domestic quarrels between Eugene and Idonah.

Juan Nakpil
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Quezon Hall was identified as Neoclassic Architecture because of its details likewise to its symmetrical
façade and tall classical fluted four columns that was composed of twenty-four flutes to be exact but
minus the typical capital and base.

The main course or signification of this building was a gateway that is dictated by symbolism of
continues discovery of knowledge, reality and reliability in every activity in a field of overt, love of
nation, and serving the people and the value of humanity.

Pablo Antonio
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The Galaxy is one of the few surviving buildings designed by National Artist Pablo Antonio, Sr. It is of Art
Moderne design, an architectural style that came about in the 1930s along with Art Deco. Many theaters along
Avenida Rizal during the ’50s and ’60s boasted such designs in answer to America’s Hollywood and Broadway.

Leandro Locsin
 The Parish of the Holy Sacrifice is remarkable example of modern tropical architecture, how its design
allows natural light and air flow to filter throughout the structure, yet is strong enough to stand the forces of
nature

Francisco Maňosa
Quirino grandstand
Designed a grand Independence Grandstand in ornate Neo-classic style. He incorporated a triumphal arch with
two “wings” that shaded the main galleries. The centerpiece in front of the arch was a stage in the form of a
ship’s bow with a carved figurehead of a maiden representing freedom. Two other figures, representing a
Filipino and a Filipina stood about 10 meters tall behind the stage and the central gallery. The whole
composition was placed facing west a few meters in front of the Rizal Monument and not across the lawn near
the breakwater where we now have the Quirino Grandstand."

Juan Arellano

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