UP Diliman (UPD) earned a 100% passing rate in the January 2025 Licensure Examination for Architects, with five examinees from the UPD College of Architecture in the top 10. Leading the pack of successful examinees are Ckristel Janssen Daguio and Marissa Iness Ragaza, who both placed first, each garnering an 82.8% rating. They are followed […]

UP Diliman (UPD) clinched the top spot of those who passed the July 2024 Licensure Examination for Landscape Architects, with five other passers landing in the top eight spots. Jose Maria Raul Boncan placed first with a rating of 84.55%. He is followed by Ivy Zyrish Ong (second place, 81.40%), Hannah Kisha Samson (third place, […]

Every examinee from the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Architecture (CA) passed the June 2024 Licensure Examination, giving the University a 100% passing rate. Four examinees entered the top 10. Leading the 27 passers are Anna Patricia R. De Leon in second place (83.40%), Alyssa Rose C. Napoles in third (83.10%), Ida Talia A. Hernandez […]

Somnambulance, the theme of Haraya 2024 was in full display at the projects, renderings, physical models, and theses exhibited at Building 1 of the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Architecture (CA). The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne website defines somnambulance as sleepwalking “when a child partly wakes from their sleep and walks around, yet they are […]

Industry and government experts recently came together and joined students from the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Architecture (CA) to discuss urban design and land-use issues in the Philippines, mainly in and around Metro Manila. Held at the CA Benito Sy Pow Auditorium, the Urban Design Forum 2024 featured presentations from the CA graduate and […]

Two art installations were unveiled on the same day at the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Architecture (CA) as part of the UPD Arts and Culture Festival 2024 and the President’s Committee on Culture and the Arts’ (PCCA) Day of Remembrance. The CA first launched the HOM(e)AY ng Pangarap: HOMage to the UP Dreams of […]

The first History, Theory, and Criticism (HTC) lecture series was recently launched by the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Architecture (CA) and featured a two-part lecture on urbanism during the administration of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and the memorials built in honor of the EDSA Revolution that ended it. Recuperating Marcosian Nostalgia: The Politics […]

All 26 first-time examinees from the UP Diliman College of Architecture (CA) passed the January 2024 Licensure Examination for Architects, giving the University a 100% passing rate. Among the examinees from the CA, four landed in the top 10. The examinees were led by Kryzia Maryzela Ortiz who garnered an 84.7% rating (ranked third). She […]

UP Diliman (UPD), the UPD College of Architecture (CA), and the UPD School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP) extended its condolences to the family of former faculty member Josefina “Josie” Ramos, PhD, who passed away on Jan. 21. “Dr. Ramos was among the first members of the UPCA faculty who laid and developed the […]

Gerard Rey A. Lico, PhD, a professor of architecture at the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Architecture (CA), completed an international course on the conservation of modern heritage at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Getty Conservation Institute is a private and non-profit institution that works to advance the conservation practice […]