y buildings should be planned

with austerity in mind and its stability forever as the aim of true architecture, that buildings must be progressive, simple in design but dignified, true to a purpose without resorting to an applied set of aesthetics and should eternally recreate truth

y Far

y y y y y y y

Eastern University Administration and Science buildings Manila Polo Club Ideal Theater Lyric Theater Galaxy Theater Capitan Luis Gonzaga Building Boulevard-Alhambra (now Bel-Air) apartments Ramon Roces Publications Building (now Guzman Institute of Electronics).

y distinguished

himself by pioneering the practice of landscape architecture y producing four decades of exemplary and engaging work that has included hundreds of parks, plazas, gardens, and a wide range of outdoor settings that have enhanced contemporary Filipino life

Santos, Jr.'s most recent projects were the: y Tagaytay Highland Resort y the Mt. Malarayat Golf y Country Club in Lipa, Batangas y the Orchard Golf and Country Club in Imus, Cavite.

y director for film and broadcast

arts, espoused the term "freedom of expression" in the Philippine Constitution y took his social activist spirit to the screen leaving behind 66 films which breathed life and hope for the marginalized sectors of society -slumdwellers, prostitute, construction workers, etc.

y the genius of Philippine cinema y He is recognized as a director of

films that serve as social commentaries and bold reflections on the existing realities of the struggle of the Filipino. y Among his notable films are "Pahiram ng Isang Umaga" (1989), "Broken Marriage" (1983), "Himala" (1981), "City After Dark" (1980), and "Nunal sa Tubig" (1976)

y acknowledged as the Folk Dance Pioneer y research on the unrecorded forms of local

celebration, ritual and sport resulted into a 1926 thesis titled "Philippine Folk Dances and Games y Her books include the following: Philippine National Dances (1946); Gymnastics for Girls (1947); Fundamental Dance Steps and Music (1948); Foreign Folk Dances (1949); Dances for all Occasion (1950); Playground Demonstration(1951); and Philippine Folk Dances, Volumes I to VI.

y pioneer

Filipino choreographer in balletic folkloric and Asian styles, has produced for over 50 years highly original, first-of-a-kind choreographies, mostly to her own storylines y Seen as her most ambitious work is the dance epic "Filipinescas: Philippine Life, Legend and Lore. With it, Orosa has brought native folk dance, mirroring Philippine culture from pagan to modern times, to its highest stage of development.

y Valera is said to have given the country

its visual icon to the world via the terno y Valera constructed the terno's butterfly sleeves, giving them a solid, built-in but hidden support. The butterfly sleeves became the terno's defining feature. y Valera helped mold generations of artists, and helped fashion to become no less than a nation's sense of aesthetics. But more important than these, he helped form a sense of the Filipino nation by his pursuit of excellence

y has the distinction of having written one

of the earliest biographies of Jose Rizal titled The Great Malayan. Quirino's books and articles span the whole gamut of Philippine history and culture--from Bonifacio's trial to Aguinaldo's biography, from Philippine cartography to culinary arts, from cash crops to tycoons and president's lives, among so many subjects y His book Maps and Views of Old Manila is considered as the best book on the subject.

y formally honored as the Queen of

Kundiman in 1979 y became the very first actress in the very first Tagalog film when she essayed the same role in the sarsuela's film version y She counts the role though of an orphan in Pangarap ni Rosa as her most rewarding and satisfying role that she played with realism, the stage sparkling with silver coins tossed by a teary-eyed audience

y the distinction of being called "The

Boy Wonder of Philippine Movies" as early as 1939 y first to use the motion picture camera to establish a point-of-view, a move that revolutionized the techniques of film narration y Avellana was also the first filmmaker to have his film Kandelerong Pilak shown at the Cannes International Film Festival.

y He made it to the Guinness Book of

World Records as the only person able to make music using just a leaf y has enriched the Philippine music for no less than two generations with a treasury of more than 4,000 songs in an idiom that has proven to appeal to all social classes y He effortlessly translated/wrote anew the lyrics to traditional melodies: "O Maliwanag Na Buwan" (Iloko), "Ako ay May Singsing" (Pampango), "Alibangbang" (Visaya) among others.

y involved herself wholly in sharpening

the Filipino audience's appreciation of music y Kasilag's pioneering task to discover the Filipino roots through ethnic music and fusing it with Western influences has led many Filipino composers to experiment with such an approach y dared to incorporate indigenous Filipino instruments in orchestral productions, such as the prize-winning "Toccata for Percussions and Winds, Divertissement and Concertante,"

y "Grand Old Man of Philippine

Art y developed the backlighting technique that became his trademark where figures, a cluster of leaves, spill of hair, the swell of breast, are seen aglow on canvas y "defined and perpetuated a distinct element of the nation's artistic and cultural heritage"

y His paintings are described as visions

of reality teetering on the edge of abstraction y Manansala professes a preference for Cezanne and Picasso whom he says have achieved a balance of skill and artistry y Manansala believes that the beauty of art is in the process, in the moment of doing a particular painting, closely associating it with the act of making love

y most distinguished Filipino writer in

English writing so variedly and so well about so many aspects of the Filipino y significance in Philippine literature involves his exploration of the Philippine colonial past under Spain and his probing into the psychology of social changes as seen by the young y As a journalist, Nick Joaquin uses the nome de guerre Quijano de Manila

y practiced "committed art y In his view, the function of the writer

is to act as the conscience of society and to affirm the greatness of the human spirit in the face of inequity and oppression y Mga Ibong Mandaragit, first written by Hernandez while in prison, is the first Filipino socio-political novel that exposes the ills of the society as evident in the agrarian problems of the 50s.