Juan Nakpil is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Juan Nakpil as Filipino architect (1899–1986).
Juan Nakpil was born in 1899. His recorded nationality is Philippines. He trained at University of Kansas and Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: National Artist of the Philippines.
That the work was built in Philippines shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Juan Nakpil died in 1986, aged 87. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- National Artist of the Philippines
- Trained at University of Kansas and Harvard Graduate School of Design
