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Don Tomás Bautista Mapúa (December 21, 1888 – December 22, 1965) was a Filipino architect, educator and businessman from the Philippines.He was the founder and first president of the Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT) together with Civil Engr. Gonzalo T. Vales as co-founder and founding dean of school and co-founder and founding president of Central Colleges of the Philippines, after he ...
After Don Tomas B. Mapúa was sent to the United States in 1903-1911 by the Philippine-American Government to study Architecture in Cornell University, he served in the Bureau of Public Works in 1918-1927. In 1925, he established the Mapúa Institute of Technology. The construction of the mansion was finished in 1930 and according to one of his ...
St. La Salle Hall. St. La Salle Hall is an H-shaped four-story structure built in the Neoclassical style in the Philippines. [4] It was built from 1920 to 1924 to serve as the new campus of De La Salle College (now De La Salle University) due to a lack of space in the previous campus in Paco, Manila, and to accommodate its increasing student ...
Mapúa University ( Filipino: Pamantasang Mapúa ), also known simply as Mapúa or MU, is a private research-oriented non-sectarian university located in Metro Manila, Philippines. The university was founded in 1925 by the first registered Filipino architect, Tomás Mapúa, a graduate of Cornell University in New York, US.
The building was constructed by the Bureau of Public Works with involvement of American consulting architect Ralph Harrington Doane and supervision of Filipino architect Tomas Mapua. The building's pre-cast ornamentation and carved wooden interiors were made by sculptors Isabelo Tampinco and Graciano Nepomuceno.
The Manila Central Post Office, often called the Post Office Building, is the main postal office of Manila, which also serves as the headquarters of the Philippine Postal Corporation. It also houses the main mail sorting-distribution operations of the Philippines. It is located along the banks of the Pasig River in Lawton, Ermita and lies at ...
Entrance Pediment detail of the UPM-PGH Administration Building. The Philippine General Hospital Administration Building is situated along Taft Avenue in Manila. It was built by architect Tomas Mapua in Neoclassical style that follows the Daniel Burnham plan for Manila. This plan included Manila Hotel, Army and Navy Club and the Philippine ...
The Iloilo Customs House ( Spanish: Aduana de Iloílo; Hiligaynon: Adwana sang Iloilo) is a historical building in Iloilo City, Philippines. It was built in 1916 [1] to a design by American architect Ralph Harrington Doane, then Consulting Architect of the Bureau of Public Works in the Philippine Islands. Among the three American-era customs ...