Architectural Manifesto

Greetings! I’m Yuji Gonzales Baba. Alumni of Ann Arbor Montessori in Bf Home Paranaque. I was in a band in my high school years having a gig on Friday and Saturday nights in Las Pinas playing different type of instruments like guitar, drums, cajon, percussion etc. A varsity player of table tennis for 4 years. At my last year of high school I took my exams on La Salle, UST and Benilde. I passed all of the exams that I took Fine Arts and Engineering in La Salle and UST, Architecture in Benilde. The reason why I took Architecture in Benilde is because of my family wants me to take something that has a professional license not breaking our family’s lineage of nurses and doctors. I had a hard time on my first 2 years taking up Architecture because I really don’t have a background on it. I flunked Architectural design 1 because of that so I took it again and I had to look for an inspiration, a building that will suit the aesthetics that I wanted. Searching Google I saw London City Hall and I took that as an inspiration on my second take of arcdes1 not knowing who designed the structure. I joined an architectural group in school who does scale models for students at my second year in college. My reason behind joining that group is that so I can have experience making models and visuals because those were my weaknesses second would be the perks that there would be people who can help me with my design and lastly the pay that I get. Now I’m in Arcdes 7, my mentor Ar. Karlo Agasa told me the way I design my building is like Ar. Norman Foster. Looking back on my design 1 the structure, my inspiration is Ar. Norman Foster and his design the London City Hall. Just like what my mentor said I’m trying to be a trendsetter I wanted something alienated. Now I’m travelling around looking at modern architecture gives me this sublime feeling, that feeling you can’t explain or put into words. Now I want to do something like that or more than that. That People will look upon on my design, an inspiration to them just like what I am now to Norman Foster.