It is a known fact that being praised or recognized often makes people feel good and increased their self-esteem. As the famous psychologist, William James, once said:“ The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.”
By giving recognition specifically coming from a professional organization that they belong, people will feel the significance of their works and their value as members of the organization most especially the young ones. It is for these reasons that the very first Young Architects Award( 2016) was instituted by the United Architects of the Philippines( UAP) during the term of UAP Immediate Past National President( IPNP) Arch. Beth Ochoa- Regala, FUAP, AA, to recognize and bestow honor to the deserving young architects of the organization. This award was the brainchild of its first and incumbent Committee Chair for Young Architects Arch. Patrick N. Rodriguez, UAP.
It has been observed that a large number of new and young members of the organization tend to be present only during their oath-taking with their chosen local chapter but soon lose interest. It’ s a tough juggle between competing demands of their usual full-time firm job and that of creating their own niche in the professional jungle. Given this scenario, there is a need to actively reconnect the usually detached young architects from their mother organization. Through this award, the novice architects are encouraged to be active and sustain their enthusiasm in supporting the plans and programs of the organization. UAP Young Architects Awards’ main objective is to recognize the individuals who have shown exceptional leadership, commitment and made significant contributions to the profession in an early stage of their architectural career – either in Professional Practice or in Academe. Thus, this article would be a fitting avenue to showcase this year’ s two awardees – Arch.. Joana Lisa R. Dungca( Professional Practice) and Arch. John Carlo L. Sayco( Academe). Let’ s get to know them deeper:
Arch. Joana Lisa R. Dungca, UAP was adjudged the very first UAP Young Architects’ Awardee for Professional Practice. She has been to at least thirteen countries and thirty cities in the world. She loves taking pictures of anything, though not a camera know-how, just a photo capture-freak. She claims she is very forgetful, that is why she should take pictures to help her be reminded of these memories. She adores sustainable fashion, e. g. hand-medowns and thrift shops-and is a trying hard fashionista.
She took the board exam in June 2010, and was the 6 th topnotcher of her batch. She worked for exactly 5 years in Group 3 Design Studio before embarking on her journey to establish her own architectural design firm with her friends and take a Master’ s Degree in her alma mater in 2013. Currently, she is a partner and one of the principal architects of AMD Architects, a Quezon City-based architectural design firm that was established with Archts. Mildred H. Mata, Ericka C. Anagaran and Richard Joseph S. Lasam in July 2013. The company focuses on healthcare
The First UAP Young Architects Awardees Bared by: Archts. Patrick Rodriguez and Sylvester Seno
facilities and commercial establishments, from master planning to individual buildings and interior fit-out. As a partner, she is also responsible for the financial direction of AMD Architects. She has always been an active member of the UAP Tandang Sora Chapter, where she is now on her second term as chapter president- one of the youngest in UAP’ s history. Also, she remained active as a core group member of the Generation of Winners( GenWin) which is a fellowship group that reaches out to young Professionals for Christ since 2013.
Moreover, Joana would love to paint( again) but does not
Through this award, the novice architects are encouraged to be active and sustain their enthusiasm in supporting the plans and programs of the organization.
seem to have the extra time to do so, and was a certified geek during her students days- spending most of her hours( and money) playing video and online games, watching animes and joining comic cons. She even had a dream of being part of a design team for a video game. Her favorite subject in college is architectural design and logarithmic functions. Physics hated her, and according to her, the feeling is mutual. She graduated in 2008 with honors in the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Ever since she was a student, she has always been active in extra-curricular activities and student organizations. She was an active member and a committee head of the Architecture Students Association of the Philippines- Diliman( ASAPhil), became the Vice President of the UP Architecture Student Council( ASC), and a volunteer for the UP College of Architecture Registration Corps( ARC).
Taking the road less traveled among Filipino architects, John Carlo L Sayco, received the very first UAP Young Architects Award for Academe. A graduate of University Santo Tomas( UST), he is fondly called inside academia as Arch Sayc or Sir Sayc. He took the Boards last 2012 and his subject specializations are Building Technology, Architectural Design and Professional Practice. After the boards, he decided to take up Masters in Cultural Herit-
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age Studies in Univeristy of Santo Tomas and is currently working on his Thesis: A critical and Annotative Catalogue of the works of Ar. Carlos Santos- Viola. He was active in various acivities inside and outside school during his undergraduate days. He was Vice- President of UST College of Architecture Student Council in 2007-2008. He owes his academe calling to his youth organization, Childrens Museum and Library Inc, wherein he was trained to facilitate discussion during conventions, tackling social issues and basically, how the youth could help out and address them. Sir Sayc is known to be sentimental but fun-loving person as well. He likes singing, playing guitar, playing football and basketball and even DOTA. Watching different Series’ related with cartoons( whose favorite is Naruto) and not( DOTS, GOT among others), and travel. A movie junkie who’ s favorite local movie is One More Chance and on the foreign side: Avengers: Civil War. His interests are cultural heritage, drafting, Heritage Architecture, modern buildings, building construction, museum studies, and graphic design. Colors that appeal to John Carlo are red, navy blue and purple, and likes Filipino, Japanese, Italian and American
food. Arch. Sayco has been hands-on with the UAP’ s national events such as the Chapter Presidents’ General Assembly and the National Convention preparations these recent past years either in various capacities as Logistics core member, Program Manager and even Sports Chairman for the UAP NATCON Arkilympics years 2014 and 2015. He always believe that“ good things will come.” Both awardees were quizzed which gives us a refreshing insight into their colorful profiles.
Candidates for the UAP Young Architects’ Awards have to be architect members of the United Architects of the Philippines( UAP), who are 35 years old and below within 2016, active regular members in good standing in a regular Chapter for at least three( 3) continuous years prior to nomination and have been licensed to practice architecture, and areeligible to be nominated in either of the two( 2) categories: 1) Professional Practice and 2) Academe. This award was also established in response to the call of the Architects Regional Council Asia( ARCASIA) during the Council Meeting in Ayutthaya, Thailand last November 11, 2015 in which the council members have agreed to recognize the young architects for each country- member of ARCASIA, where the current Chair participated in behalf of the UAP.. UAP Young Architects Committee Chair Arch. Rodriguez is joined by Deputy Chairman Arch. Carlo Gianni B. Bustos and members: Archts. Sylvester Shaun D. Seño, Videl M. Mendoza, John Noel R. Cano and Alpha Fiesta Azarcon.
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