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APPRACN02 - Professional Practice 2: Administering the Regular Service of the Architects

National University – Manila


College of Architecture

Week2 - The Architect and the Law

The Virtues of an Architect

"May the Architect be high-minded; not arrogant, but faithful;

Just, and easy to deal with, without avarice;

Not let his mind be occupied by receiving gifts,

But let him preserve his good name with dignity..."

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Who is Marcus Vitruvius Pollio?

He lived from (c. 90 - c. 20 BCE)

Known as “Vitruvius”

States that all buildings have three attributes:

firmitas, utilitas, and venustas (strength, utility, and beauty)

- Wrote De Architectura, ten books about concepts of architecture, known for one of the first book
on architectural theory and source of the canon for classical architecture

De Arquitektura

Book I – architect’s ideal education, principles and division of architecture, town planning

Book II – origin and composition of construction building materials

Book III – mathematics and proportions of columns and temples

Book IV – Classical architectural orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthian) temples, and altars

Book V – Roman Buildings (Basilica, theaters, harbours)

Book VI – effect on climate on character and best foundations and layout for private homes

Book VII – paving, vaults, wall paintings, colors origin and history

Book VIII – water resource and conveyances via aqueducts


Book IX – study of astronomy and its relevance to architectures, and measurement of time using
sundials and water-clocks

Book X – various machines and gadgets such as distance measuring device, water-drive machines,
weapons like catapults, ballistae and siege engines.

Value of an Architect

The Architect creates man’s environment through his awareness and sensitive handling of spaces
that fit the scale of human experience.

The resulting quality of the form-envelope manifested as a structure or building gives to man’s
appreciation of beauty and order in his physical world.

The Architects’ deliberation determine how people will be placed in relationship one to another,
how whole societies will work, play, eat, sleep, recreate, travel, worship, or in short how people
will live in consonance with their culture and national aspirations.

His objective is to bring order to man’s environment to cause to function property within a
structure that is safe and healthful and to impart to the whole a beauty and distinction that is
appropriate to our time.

The Spectrum of the Architect’s Services

The spectrum of the Architect’s services extends over the entire range of activities that proceed
from the time the idea is conceived, perfected, transformed into sets of space/ design
requirements, translated into structure through design, built, used and become a permanent
feature of the man-made environment.

The Architect’s services consist of the necessary conferences, deliberations, discussions,


evaluations, investigations, consultations, advice on matters affecting the scientific, aesthetic and
orderly coordination of all the processes of safeguarding life, health, and property which enter
into production of different levels and sophistication of man-made structures and environment.

The Architect, in the process of translating abstract ideas into meaningful concrete terms,
produces documents in the form of a data base report, an architectural program, a feasibility
study, a market study, an appraisal report, an impact analysis report, a space-organizational set-
up report, a site planning analysis and evaluation report, an operational programming report,
building programming and scheduling report.

A complete and detailed documentation of construction or erection drawings is prepared


consisting of the architectural plans, the structural plans, the electrical plans, the plumbing/
sanitary plans, the mechanical/ airconditioning plans, the civil work plans, the technical
specifications and the other bid documents.
The 3-D Wheel of a Building Project

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