Press Releases
Ang Pinakamagandang Bahay sa Balat ng LupaFrom The Philippine Star, November 16, 2008
The UP College of Architecture and Lafarge Cement Services (Philippines), Inc. have launched a history-making competition for all architects and architecture students to help create a truly environmentally sustainable middle-class homes.
A joint undertaking between UPCA and LCSPI, the competition wants to encourage architects to adapt universal green design concepts to something that is more relevant, appropriate and practicable to tropical Filipino homes.
Kubo, Bato, and Beyond: UP�s Centennial Architecture Tilt
From Manila Bulletin, December 7, 2008
Three factors make architecture truly Filipino: Filipino values, Philippine climate and the use of indigenous materials. � Francisco Ma�osa, architect
In time for the centenary of the University of the Philippines (UP), the UP College of Architecture is holding a landmark competition to promote Filipino green architecture.
With the aspirational title, "Ang Pinakamagandang Bahay sa Balat ng Lupa (The Most Beautiful House on Earth)," the tilt aims to stimulate the imagination of architecture students and licensed architects alike and rediscover -- or redefine -- beauty in Filipino design.
RP searches for perfect green homes
From The Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 13, 2008
IN 2004 a $10-million challenge�the Ansari X-Prize�dared anyone or any outfit to privately build a vehicle that could safely haul a pilot and the equivalent weight of two passengers to the edge of space and then repeat the feat within two weeks.
This unusual competition, which SpaceShipOne eventually won, was organized in the hope of spurring the development of commercial space flight.
In a way, the competition that the University of the Philippines� College of Architecture has recently conceived together with cement manufacturer, Lafarge Cement Services (Philippines) reminds us of the the Ansari X-Prize.
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