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THE FIRST asean architects UAP NATCON 41 1. 40 FILIPINO ASEAN ARCHITECTS AR. YOLANDA DAVID REYES, fuap, hfaia, apec ar., likha awardee She is the former Dean of the University of Santo Tomas College of Architecture and Fine Arts. Ar. Reyes served as the National President of the United Architects of the Philippines for the Fiscal Year 2002–2003. She was the former Chairman of the Architects Regional Council Asia and is an APEC Architect. She is the Chairman of ASEAN Architects Council, an Honorary Fellow of American Institute of Architects and a Member of the UAP College of Fellows. In the past year she was the UAP Likha Awardee. Ar. Reyes is a Chairman of the Technical Panel for Architecture, Interior 2. AR. ROLANDO L. CORDERO, fuap He is a BS Architecture graduate of the Far Eastern University and he topped the 1972 Architects Licensure Examination. Ar. Cordero is a former faculty member of the Institute of Architecture and Fine arts, FEU and was among those awarded the Outstanding Alumni in the 75th Founding Anniversary of the Far Eastern University in 2003. He was also awarded the Outstanding Alumni of Saint Joseph Academy - La Consolacion School in 2005. Ar. Cordero is a former Caloocan City Development Planning Officer and the first City Architect, Chief Planner of Caloocan City Long Range Comprehensive Development Plan and Caloocan City Zoning and Land Use Plan. He is at present a Member of the UAP College of Fellows and is a Chairman, Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture 3. AR. FIDEL JOSE R. SIAPNO, fuap A graduate of the University of Sto. Tomas. He was instrumental in establishing the College of Architecture and Fine Arts at the Aquinas University of Legazpi City, serving as its first Dean from 1982 to 1985, and served two (2) more terms in 1989 to 1997. His greatest achievement is having mentored more than 200 practising Architects in the Bicol Region, all over the country and abroad especially in Asia and the Middle East. He is an active member of the United Architects of the Philippines. 78 Also served as a UAP Chapter President twice, in 1980 and 1987, and was on the National Board as District Director in 1984. In 2005, he was appointed as a member of the Nominations Committee and as Chairperson of the UAP COMELEC. He has been awarded and conferred as Fellow of UAP and as Member Emeritus of the organization Design, Landscape, Fine Arts and Environmental Planning Education of the Commission on Higher Education. She was bestowed the Design Excellence Awardee for her project: Caleruega Chapel and Dominican Retreat House in Nasugbu, Batangas. Ar. Reyes is a member of the Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture and a Council Member for Region 4 of the Union Internationale des Architectes, representing Asia, Australia and New Zealand. 4. AR. ROZANNO C. ROSAL, fuap, int’l. assoc. aia Ar. Rosal received his degree of Bachelor of Science in Architecture from National University in 1985 and Executive Masters in Business Administration at the International Academy of Management and Economics. He has been a versatile, staunch, knowledgeable, and respected voice on advocacy issues that are of critical import to architects and others in the design and construction industry at the national, and local levels. In more than two decades of service in UAP until the time when he became UAP National President for Fiscal Year 2012-2014, he made his mantra “the positioning of architects as the authoritative source on the built environment”. Ar. Rosal never rested on his accomplishments, but rather has been spurred forward because of them, confronting new criteria and establishing new parameters within which innovative solutions to the architecture profession could be developed. Ar. Rosal is currently in the United States of America, where he also attended a meeting with the American Institute of Architects; one of the matters discussed is the situation of the Typhoon Yolanda Victims in the Southern Philippines.