Form follows function

Less is more

Less is a bore

Forms follow beauty

 “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” 

“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?” 

"Freedom is from within."

"To create, one must first question everything."

"People ignore design that ignores people."

“There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.”

"Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."

"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building."

“Architecture is a learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in light”

“The mother art is Architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization.”

“As an Architect, you design for the present, with the awareness of the past, for a future that is essentially unknown.”

“I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by Architecture”

Art and architecture the new unity

“I design Filipino”

“Architecture must be true to itself, its land and its people”

"Creating Architecture that is both

modern and undeniably Filipino."

“Three factors make architecture truly Filipino, Filipino values, Philippine climate and the use of indigenous materials”

“The structure must be well oriented”

Architecture begins where engineering ends

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood”