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Prosperidad C. Luis, FUAP
Principal Architect, Luis and Associates

Archt. Prosperidad C. Luis is currently the
Principal of the firm Luis and Associates, Architects
and Environmental Planners and had served as
Dean of the UP College of Architecture for five from
2002 to 2007. She obtained her B.S. Architecture
and Master of Architecture degrees from the
University of the Philippines and her Postgraduate
Diploma in Health Facilities Planning and Design
from the Medical Architecture Research Unit of the University of North London.
With this special training in medical architecture and a consistent program of
professional development in healthcare architecture as background, she had lectured
in the College of Public Health of the University of the Philippines and in the Ateneo
Graduate School of Business, on planning, design, and construction of hospitals in
their master programs in Hospital Administration. She has developed a master level
program leading to a specialization in healthcare architecture within the framework
of the existing master program in the UP College of Architecture. She has served
the World Health Organization as Consultant and Temporary Adviser in assignments
to the countries of the Western Pacific Region such as Korea, Japan, Vietnam and
the Philippines. She is a main contributor-writer of the WHO publication, “District
Hospitals: Guidelines for Development.”
Archt. Luis has served her professional organization, the United Architects of the
Philippines, in various capacities, starting in her mother Chapter, the Diliman Chapter,

as its Chapter President, culminating in her service
as the UAP National President for two consecutive
terms in 2000-2001 and 2001-2002. Towards the
end of her two terms as National President, UAP was
awarded Outstanding Professional Organization
for the Year 2002 by the Professional Regulation
Commission for exceptional achievements as a
professional organization.
Archt. Luis also served as the Chancellor of the
College of Fellows in 2004-2005 and continues to
serve the UAP in various capacities – as a member
of the Ad Hoc Committee now updating, upgrading
and rewriting the Standards for Professional
Practice for Architects; as Corporate Secretary of
the Board of Trustees of the UAP Foundation; and
as Chairman of the Monitoring Committee of the
APEC Architects Register, Philippine Section.
Archt. Luis was awarded Professional of the
Year in the Field of Architecture in 1999 by the
Professional Regulation Commission and is one of
the first 12 Filipino architects awarded the title of
APEC Architect in October 2006.

“Hospitals Abroad: A Travelogue”
I must have walked through the corridors of almost a hundred hospitals in different countries of the world in the five continents of
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. In pursuing my self-imposed continuing professional development in healthcare
architecture, the congresses, conferences and forums I had attended offered precious and incomparable additional educational
opportunities in the form of visits of various hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
Although all hospitals are built for the common purpose of providing a container for all activities related to healing, hospitals show
great disparities as a result of geography, socio-culture, economy and history. Each hospital has its own story linked to the life of the
people that it serves, and attached to the land on which it is built.
For this lecture, I intend to talk about hospitals such as:
• the one in California, built on a fault line, with walls that can move as much as eight feet during an earthquake;
• the one in Japan where robots meet patients and direct them to their intended destinations;
• the one in South Africa where patients are directed to their destinations by foot imprints on the floor slab;
• the one in Melaka built without air-conditioning where the fragrance of the frangipani bloom permeates the atmosphere;
• the one in the high-technology government center of Putrajaya where a whole hospital had been designed fully air-conditioned,
completely sealed from the outside;
• a hospital in East Berlin and West Berlin, visited one after another for comparison;
• a hospital in Florence, retrofitted, upgraded and expanded from a Renaissance structure to a high-technology, state-of-the-art,
green hospital for children;
• a hospital in Denmark, with records that if lined up would constitute a 30-kilometer line, because no records can be destroyed
because they belong to a royal hospital; and many others.
This will be a Travel Diary, a Travelogue so to speak – one which I had wanted to do all these years and had found time and
reason to do only now!
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