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THE Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) listed a total of 40 Asean architects who can now practice their profession not only in the country but also anywhere in the region.

"The Philippines, as of today, have 40 registered Professional Regulation Commission accredited Filipino architects who are now integrated with the Asean architecture," said Arch. Benjamin K. Panganiban Jr., accredited Asean architect, during Wednesday's edition of Club 888 at Marco Polo Hotel.

Panganiban is the only Dabawenyo who is presently an accredited Asean architect. There is also one each for General Santos City and Cagayan de Oro City while the rest are Luzon-based architects.

As compared to Asean nations, the Philippines has the most number of accredited Asean architects.

Panganiban said there were 52 of them who applied in 2013 and only 40 were approved in July this year. This is barely one percent of around 38,000 licensed architects in the country.

He said through the United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) and the PRC, they are encouraging Filipino architects to apply and get an Asean architect accreditation since it will open new opportunities.

Panganiban said if they are Asean architect,s they will be able to partner with other Asean architects, which will allow the exchange of ideas and technology.

For example, he said when a Singaporean architect will practice in the Philippines, they need to partner with a Filipino architect. The same applies if a Filipino architect will offer services in other Asean countries.

He said the Filipino architects have the edge over other architects in the region because of the Filipino's natural creativity and ingenuity in making architectural designs.

"[For example] the backbone of architecture in Singapore is all Filipino architects. We have a lot of architects migrating to Singapore and setting up offices there and even working for Singaporeans. They are the majority making the designs of the Singaporeans," Panganiban said.

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Davao City The United Architects of the Philippines (UAP) wants to dominate the ASEAN region. This was revealed during a press conferenceWednesdayby Davao Citys only ASEAN architect, Benjamin Panganiban.

The annual National Architect Week will be hosted by the UAP under District D1 and its 8 local chapters this coming December 8-13in an effort to uphold ASEAN Architecture within the region.

The six-day celebration themed: Filipino Architects at the Forefront of ASEAN Integration 2015 will also promote the upcoming ASEAN Integration where the Philippines will be opening up its borders to other ASEAN countries in terms professional services, including architecture.

Panganiban said that Filipino architects are more creative. The architects from other regions should fear us because of our creativity and ingenuity, he said.

Panganiban is one of the 40 ASEAN architects in the Philippines and the only ASEAN architect in Davao City.

Panganiban gave the new structural designs and technologies in Singapore as an example where the work force is diverse, however, the backbone of the architecture designs are all coming from the Filipino majority.

UAP Davao chapter president, Architect Michael Madrazo said that being an ASEAN architect would be an advantage for Filipinos.

We are limited to practice our profession in the Philippines only. Whereas when we became an ASEAN architect, we are eligible to practice in other countries in the ASEAN Region. For [big] practicing architects thats a very big opportunity, Madrazo said.

Aside from becoming the leading organization in the ASEAN region, the UAP wants to prepare not only the Filipino architects but also the architect major students and all those who are interested in the art of architecture for the bigger opportunities as well as the challenges that can be presented by the ASEAN Integration.

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Even the most prosaic oppositions of architecture can be cast in terms that indicate something is really at stake. This is Derrida for architects. There is always something at issue, and the stakes are high. One of Derridas terms for the problematic conditions is the aporia, a word in Ancient Greek relating to perplexity. The key is to keep perplexity and ambiguity alive rather than to resolve it. It is to show that any putative resolution is itself fraught with further ambiguity and complexity.

-From Chapter One, Thinking About Architecture

Routledge Press (2014)

At a time when it seems all human endeavour has become tied to technology and obsessed with compiling mountains of meaningless data, perhaps pressing refresh on our philosophical underpinnings could provide a means to remove ourselves from this digitopia. And who better than Jacques Derrida to give us an alternative perspective, ifonly for a brief moment. Such is the case with architect and professor Richard Coynes Derrida for Architects,part ofa larger series published by Routledge called Thinkers for Architects,with other volumes on Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and Walter Benjamin. In its brief 98 pages, the book examines in six chapters the way that the current practice of architecture could learn a thing or two from the late, great post-structuralist.

As any architect will recall from theirarchitecture history classes atschool, there was a symbiotic moment in the 1980s when modern philosophy and architecture briefly coalesced, a movement which would later become known as Deconstructivism in architecture.Its philosophical origin, Deconstruction,wasa term coinedbyDerrida himself, as he was the first to use it in his 1967 book Of Grammatology. Architects like Peter Eisenman and Bernard Tschumi found hisquestioning of western belief systemsthose political,scientific and religious underpinningswhichhe called metaphysics as a point of departure for a new architecture more critical of its meaning and context.

Coynes writing style is clear and his narrative straightforward. This is essentialgiven the complexity of the material he discusses, with numerous citations to support his text throughout. In the introductory prologue, he introduces us to his subject not as an academic (he teaches architecture theory at the University of Edinburgh), or even a philosopher, but simply a writer whose works Coyne just happens to have read extensively.We then are the beneficiaries of this erudition, as to accomplish a similar feat would require not just reading Derridas texts of which there are over 40 but all the commentary that has been written about him, as well.

The first chapter, Thinking About Architecture, develops Derridas thinking from an architectural perspective,beginning with a quick lesson onStructuralism and introducing us to its founder, Ferdinand de Saussure. This lays the basis by which one can understand Derrida, as of all the great thinkers he deconstructed, it is Saussure who is the origin. Coyne is alsoconsiderate of the readers attention spanon the subject, breaking each chapter into smaller partswith architectural afterthoughts. In one instance, a discussion of the historical linguistspoint of view isgiven an architectural analogy, questioning what a volute means beyond its reference in an Ionic capital.

The first chapter of the booklays the foundation for Derrida by introducing us tothe notionsof juxtaposition and opposition, concepts that architecturesimilarly has to deal with on a day-to-day basis. This is as well counterpointed withDerridas rebellion against the Structuralist notion that language is not meant to represent reality, butmerely signify it. The reality that language does not reference the real world, but some other world beyond language does not bode well with him, and perhaps is a contributing factor to his sense of urgency.

In the books second chapter, Language and Architecturethe author gives usa brief history of linguistics, from its origins in philology, to the notion of historical linguistics forwhich Saussure created his ownelaborate system to overcome. He explains that while the historical model of linguistics looks at links between languages in a linear progression, the structuralist looks at the similar structures in all languages, regardless of their evolution. This was a notion very much in the same spirit as the High Modernistperiodof architecture,which sought to distill the gestalt from the program, turning simple brick and mortar into somethingsublime and imbued with a meaning greater than the sum of the parts.

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The AIA PA chapter presented their awards at a Barnes Museum gala November 12, 2014. To be included in an evening where many well-known firms and professionals are being honored was honestly, quite amazing! noted Gray. Garmon was nominated by his professors at Penn for his design excellence and outstanding academic standing Garmon was ranked highest in his graduating class this May, receiving the Henry Adams Medal from the AIA.

At Array, Garmon works with teams of architects, planners and interior designers to create healing environments at hospitals across the country. Currently he is involved in a new hospital complex in Ohio and a Health & Wellness Center in Florida. The design acumen Gray brings to our team allows us to offer an excellently-rounded group of professionals who work together to provide a healing space to further our clients mission of keeping their communities healthy, reports Marsha Whitt, AAHID, EDAC, NCIDQ, Principal & Regional Vice President of Arrays Dallas office.

Since 1983, Array Architects has been recognized as one of the nations leaders in the design of healthcare facilities and offers a full complement of knowledge-based services including planning, architecture, interior design and advisory services from our six office locations. Our devotion to a healthcare-exclusive practice springs from our belief in the power of design to improve patient outcomes, maximize operational efficiencies, increase staff satisfaction and provide remarkable results for our clients.

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