Building Modernity @ National Museum

Building Modernity: A Century of Architecture and Allied Arts traces the evolution of architecture and designed environment in the Philippines in the 20th century, structures that had been created within the framework of modernism. The exhibition is composed of archival photographs, paintings, vintage graphics, blueprints, building components and ornaments, and related artifacts. The exhibition underscores the larger stylistic tendencies, movements, ideologies, and technologies that have shaped the complex Filipino architectural culture of the last century; acknowledging the plural expressions of modernity.

The exhibition is a collaborated project of the Committee on Architecture and the Allied Arts of the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA), together with National Museum of the Philippines and the UP College of Architecture . Exhibition opens on February 7, 2007 , 5 pm at the Museum of the Filipino People (formerly Finance Building), National Museum Complex, Manila. It will be the main feature of the National Museum from February until May 2007.
Building Modernity Lecture SeriesTambunting Hall, 4th Floor,Museum of the Filipino People, National Museum ComplexAgri-Fina Circle, Luneta Park, Manila

9 am - 12 noon
February 28, 2007
Building the Imperial Imagination: The Politics of American Colonial Architecture and Urbanism
Dr. Gerard LicoUniversity of the Philippines

March 14, 2007
Remembering Who you Are: History, Identity and the Designed Environment
Arch. Emilio OzeataUniversity of the Philippines

March 21, 2007
Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Architecture
Arch. Rene Luis MataUniversity of the Philippines

March 28, 2007
Contested Meanings: Public Parks and the Revive Manila Program
Prof. Tessa GuazonUniversity of the Philippines

April 11, 2007
Development of Philippine Architecture from Pre-colonial to the Present
Arch. Cristina TuralbaUniversity of the Philippines

April 18, 2007
Philippine Architecture in the 20th Century
Arch. Norma AlarconUniversity of the Santo Tomas

April 25, 2007
Modern as Native: Vernacularism in Philippine Modern Architecture
Arch. Edson Roy CabalfinCornell University

May 2, 2007
Tropical Architecture in the Philippines
Arch. Nicolo del CastilloUniversity of the Philippines

For exhibit information you can download the exhibit notes in pdf format.For more information or reservations, please call the Museum Foundation at 404.2685/ 722.9073 and look for Elvie, Flor or Patricia.For more Museum Foundation events and activities please visit our website at http://museumfoundationph.org/news/

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