Landscape Architect Presence Growing in Philippines

 

The logo of the Philippine Association of Landscape Architects (PALA).

Augusto Villalon reports in The Philippine Daily Inquirer the University of San Carlos in Cebu is now offering a degree course in landscape architecture. Previously, only the University of the Philippines had such a program in the islands. Villalon estimates there are 180 Philippine practitioners nationally licensed by the Professional Regulation Commission, although only 20 percent actively practice the profession. Among those is Dolly Quimbo Perez, who received her degree from the University of California at Berkeley and has been active in the field since the late 1950s.

The Philippine designed landscape, he asserts, is an unknown component of cultural heritage, an ?EUR??,,????'??unstudied area ripe for research and documentation that can finally shed light on our garden and landscape tradition.?EUR??,,????'??