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It's not about predicting the future. It’s about asking why we keep repeating the past.Philippine architecture now is no...
22/10/2025

It's not about predicting the future. It’s about asking why we keep repeating the past.

Philippine architecture now is not predicting or looking towards the future, so we need to confront it. It asks why, despite all our tools, knowledge, and history, we still make the same mistakes. As designers, we’re not just inheritors of a built environment; we’re also inheritors of its failures.

We can’t keep blaming systems without acknowledging that we designed those systems, and that many of the designers we once looked up to helped shape the very paradigms we now critique. Their visions built a foundation, but also boundaries. Ours is the generation that must question both.

It's not supposed to be a fantasy of the future; it’s an act of accountability. It turns architecture into inquiry:

Why do we rebuild the same hierarchies in new forms?
Why do we mistake nostalgia for identity?
Why do we celebrate innovation that only repeats what was once radical?





24/06/2022

/ Michelangelo /
"Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known simply as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work had a major influence on the development of Western art, particularly in relation to the Renaissance notions of humanism and naturalism. He is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his rival and elder contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci. Given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences, Michelangelo is one of the best-documented artists of the 16th century and several scholars have described Michelangelo as the most accomplished artist of his era. He sculpted two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, before the age of thirty."
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Born: Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, 6 March 1475, Caprese, Republic of Florence
Died: February 18, 1564, Rome, Papal States
Known for: Sculpture, painting, architecture, and poetry
Notable work: Pietà (1498–1499), David (1501–1504), Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508–1512), Moses (1513–1515), The Last Judgment (1536–1541)
Movement: High Renaissance

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