LEANDRO LOCSIN

MODULE 2
EARLY LIFE
•He was born on August 15, 1928, in Silay,
Negros Occidental
•Known as “Lindy” to his friends and
admirers
•Guillermo Locsin and Remedios Valencia’s
•A grandson of the first governor of the
province “ Don Leandro Locsin y de la
Rama”
•Died in 1994 at the age of 86
EDUCATION
•Started schooling in Salay City, Negros
Occidental
• Studied with the De La Salle brothers in
manila from 1935 until 1947 (Except 1942-
1945)
•Went back to manila to study Pre-Law in
UST
•Shifted to persue bachelor degree in music
•Shifted again to Architecture
 CONCEPT •He was described as the “POET OF SPACE” for the way he
arculated space using straight forward geometry
AND •The use of CONCRETE, FLOATING, VOLUME, the DUALITY
OF LIGHT and HEAVY BUOYANT and MASSIVE and

PHILOSOPHY SIMPLISTIC DESIGN.

NOTABLE
WORKS AND
PROJECTS
From 1955 to 1994 locsin has produced:

•75 residence
•88 building
•11 churches and chapels
•23 public building
•48 commercial building
•Six major hotels
•And an airport terminal building
LOCAL WORKS
THE CULTURAL CENTER
OF THE PHILIPPINES
COMPLEX
Designed all 5 buildings

1. Tanghalang pambansang building

2. Folk Art theater
3. Philippines international conventional
center
4. Philippines center for international trade
exhibition
5. The westin hotel ( now sofitel philippine
plaza hotel
CULTURAL
CENTER OF THE
PHILIPPINES
• Signature style known as the
floating volume
•Façade is dominated by a two storey
travertine block suspended 12 meters
(39ft)
•Brutalist style
•, textured by crush seashells
originally found in the reclamation
site
•On the main lobby, three large
Capiz-shell chandeliers, each
symbolizing the Luzon, Visayas and
Mindanao
PHILIPPINES
INTERNATIONAL
CONVENTIONAL CENTER
•Architectural style brutalist
•five building modules
•The facility named National Artist was built in
reclaimed land and has a floor area of more
than 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m2).
CHURCH OF THE
HOLY SACRIFICE
•Erected in the early 1950s
•Designed the church for the Ossorio family
•Chapel that was open and could easily
accommodate 1,000 people
•First round chapel in philippines with middle
in the altar
•First to have thin shell concrete dome
•This ring beam, in turn, supports the 3-inch
thick concrete shell of the dome that spans
29.26 metres (96.0 ft)
FOREIGN PROJECTS
Istana, Nurul,
Iman
•It was Locsin’s Largest single work
•Has a floor area of 2.2 million square
feet
•Architectural motif of golden domes and
vaulted roofs to echo brunei’s islamic and
malay influences
•Construction was handled by ayala
International, a filipino construction firm.
Istana, Nurul,
Iman
•1,788 rooms, which includes 257
bathrooms, a banquet hall that can be
expanded to accommodate up tp 5,000
guests, a mosque accommodating 1500
people.
•110 car garage
•5 swimming pools and an air conditioned
stable for the sultan’s 200 polo ponies.
•In total contains 2,152,782 square feet.
•Make use of 564 chandeliers, 51,000 light
bulbs, 44 stairwells, and 18 elevators
Philippine
Pavilion, Osaka,
Japan
•The dramatic roof sweeping up from the
ground was intended to express the soaring
prospects and future oriented outlook of
the filipino people.
•Fine Philippine hardwoods and other
native materials were used extensively
throughout the pavilion
•Panels of Capiz shell in the skylight defused
a warm interior.
ACHIEVEMENTS
AND AWARDS
•TOYM (Ten Outstanding Young Men) Award for
Architecture given by the Philippine Junior
Chamber of Commerce; 1959
•Rizal Centennial Award for “Outstanding Work in
Architecture” conferred by the President of the
Philippines; 1962
•University of Santo Tomas Gold Medal Awarded
for nomination as “Outstanding Alumnus of the
College of Architecture and Fine Arts”; 1968
•Philippine Republic Cultural Heritage Award
conferred by the President of the Philippines;
1970
•proclaimed a National Artist of the Philippines for
Architecture in 1990 by the late former President
Corazon C. Aquino
•Filipino Architect with no foreign training
 True Philippine
architecture is

“the product two great stream of

culture , oriental and occidental…
to produce a new object of
profound harmony”
- leandro locsin
 GROUP 1

•JEROME C. DAVID
•JEAN MARC TALAVERA
•ANGEL LYN PANGANIBAN
•LESLIE DAYLIG
•PAOLINE NABONG