Architect Bobby Mañosa’s Filipino Design

OUR country and people are truly blessed to have a patriot who has championed the cause of Filipino Design in Philippine Architecture. No world-renowned architect has espoused the tropical indigenous design for Filipinos in the past half-century other than Francisco “Bobby” Mañosa.

Architect Mañosa has been most famous for his adaptation of the nipa hut or bahay-kubo, the structure of local architecture in our country. The same house design has worked over the centuries with “our climate, environment and culture.” In spite of the lack of an architect, the nipa hut is designed with a “deep understanding of our living conditions,” says Mañosa whose name has become synonymous with the bahay-kubo.