December 11, 2021 | 1 PM – 3 PM
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) Philippines
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Attendees may request personalized dedications from ICOMOS Philippines members for you and the ones you gift. Additionally, discounts and perks are available for their books:
Endangered Splendor: Manila`s Architectural Heritage, 1571-1960`, Vol 1 – 20% discount
Bayani Biographies: Gregoria de Jesus – 20% discount
Deco Filipino: Art Deco Heritage in the Philippines – early purchases received a free Metropolitan Theater Historical Color Book. (Limited copies only)
Authors and books at the event:
Erik Akpedonu and Dr. Fernando Zialcita
Endangered Splendor: Manila`s Architectural Heritage, 1571-1960`, Vol 1
Despite the devastations of World War II, significant examples of Manila’s architectural heritage from the Spanish, American and early Independence periods did survive. Baroque, Neo-Gothic, Neoclassical, Bauhaus structures along with graceful Wood-and-Stone houses can still be admired. But for how long? Lack of district planning, the urge for quick profits via high-rises, and sheer neglect are blotting out examples of Filipino creativity. They are also erasing landmarks in Manila’s story: Its rise from a small port to the first global city during the Galleon Trade, to the cradle of a new nation, to a city that during the first half of the twentieth century connected four continents together. This series was written in the hope that seeing all the remaining splendor gathered together under one cover, the public might feel it urgent to keep alive Manila’s story and its landmarks.
Volume 1: The Center focuses on Intramuros, Binondo, San Nicolas, and Tondo.
Erik Akpedonu is a faculty member of the Department of Fine Arts of the Ateneo de Manila University and a Research Associate at the Ateneo de Manila University`s Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC). He studied Architecture at the Lippe University of Applied Sciences in Detmold, Germany. Working in architectural bureaus in Germany, Ghana, and Malaysia, he participated in various projects in those countries and in the Middle East. In the Philippines Erik Akpedonu has been conducting extensive surveys of historic Filipino architecture in Bohol and in Metro Manila, and has published numerous journal articles and book chapters discussing various aspects of heritage, culture, and architecture.
Fernando N. Zialcita. AB Humanities and MA Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University. MA and Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Hawai’i. Organized Cultural Heritage Studies Program at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University where he is a Profesor Emeritus. Writes on issues of heritage and identity for journals and international books.
Ivan Man Dy
Deco Filipino: Art Deco Heritage in the Philippines
Art Deco was the architectural and stylistic sensation of the 20th century. Originating in France, it spread across cities and towns around the world and reached the Philippines via the United States, where it flourished during the Commonwealth Era.
This book is a sequel to ArtPostAsia’s 2009 publication Art Deco in the Philippines. It takes you on a grand tour of the rich Art Deco heritage around the country as it brings together a wide selection of audiences, commercial and entertainment buildings, religious edifices, as we as public and private facilities that were extensively documented in towns and cities across the archipelago.
Lavishly illustrated with over 500 colored and archival photos, DECO FILIPINO: ART DECO HERITAGE IN THE PHILIPPINES presents a visual catalog of contemporary architecture and design from 1925-1950. Through these structures, we learn about the life and times of an era collectively remembered with gilded nostalgia-set in the midst of a confident political transition, but also one at the cusp of an impending World War.
Ivan Man Dy is a tourism professional and the founder of the specialist tour outfit Old Manila Walks (www.oldmanilawalks.com). He is the author of Deco Filipino and has lectured extensively on Philippine Art Deco design heritage both locally and abroad.
Natasha Kintanar
Bayani Biographies: Gregoria de Jesus
Gregoria de Jesus is popularly known as the wife of Andres Bonifacio. She worked as a custodian to arms and documents of the Katipunan. But, who was she before she married Andres? What else happened during the 1896 Revolution? What did she do after the Revolution?
Gregoria de Jesus was more than the Lakanbini of the Katipunan who fought for her country. Oriang, as she was fondly called, fought for love all throughout her life. Learn more about this bayani who fought courageously and lived life whole-heartedly.
Natasha Kintanar is an archaeologist, educator, and an advocate of heritage interpretation and she is able to practice this as co-founder of Tuklas Pilipinas. Tasha is also a Philippine history instructor at the University of the Philippines Diliman Ext Program in Pampanga and the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
