Deans Duet: Yolly Reyes and Honny Fernandez
This is an old article I found wherein the deans at the time of both the UP and UST architecture schools were interviewed together. The article is interesting in that it focuses on the rivalry between the two schools. It can also be quite the sentimental piece for graduates of the UP College of Architecture as it gives us a glimpse of the much beloved late Honny Fernandez's thoughts once more if only for a brief moment.
Interview by Julie Cabatit-Alegre
from the Modern Living Section of the Philippine Star
Rivalry is common among schools. We see it wildly demonstrated during sports competitions or fiercely exhibited during intercollegiate debates. At times, it can revert into something dark and nasty, extending its tentacles beyond the campus and deep into the lives of the graduates as professionals.
But that is not the kind we’d like to dwell on here. There is competition of the enlightened kind. It challenges. It nurtures. It pushes forward, but it never pulls down. Some might even call it healthy. This is the kind that could bring two deans, of the two top schools of architecture in the country, together. After a recent CHED evaluation, the College of Architecture of the University of Santo Tomas and the University of the Philippines were recognized as centers of excellence. Their deans sat together for this duet interview, to bounce their thoughts, to and fro, to see where they intersect, to watch where they differ. The final score is simply the sum total of their separate passions for one and the same holy grail.
(for the rest of the article, click here. The link will look like a blank page but it really isn't. Just make sure to scroll down until you see the text.)
posted by ben tumbling @ 5:31 AM
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I would have to disagree with Dean Honny on the part of planning being two-D, when in fact it really is 4-D: length, width, height and time. That is what gives planning a notch higher than Architecture, more intensive consideration of the time component in a larger global scale, aside from policy building.
kuya enrics: i'm thinking we should keep our posts shorter so it won't take too long to scroll down to previous articles. in cases where the article is available online, maybe you can put the first 2 or 3 paragraphs of the article, and then just put a link "Read More" pointing to the site where the article is.
Ate Pon, you're right. I didn't expect the article to be so long until I saw it posted here. Nakakahiya nga kasi I saw that you posted something and it got bumped all the way down. The original post where I got it from had very small fonts and the layout was messed up because the text was offset all the way to the bottom so it looked like the page was totally blank and it didn't seem as long. Anyway, I'll do as you say. I'll try to look for a better source too.
Ate Pon, I couldn't find any other link for the article except for the bad one. Maybe someone else can host it in their blog and we'll just link to it.
Anyway, is it just me or did anyone else cringe when Honny compared teaching to a "sex act" (as he compares most things he's passionate about). On the other hand, I'd probably be more surprised if he didn't.
ate pon ka diyan :P pangit nga yung layout nung link, pero readable naman siya, at least in my pc. thanks for making the adjustment. san yung sex act part? i just scanned through it..i think i remember reading it in star some years before. yung "perceptual sensitivity" lagi niyang sinasabi sa class.
Ate Pon, there are actually a lot of discussion points that were raised by the interview. Pangit nga ang layout ng original article kasi aakalain mong blank page. There's a cool feature at the left hand side of the original posting though. It has shortcuts to the discussion points in the interview. Dean Honny likened "teaching architecture" to the "sex act" when they were asked what they felt about teaching.
Some of the discussion points that really caught my attention was the comparison between UST and UP design aesthetics and also the situation between local and foreign architects practicing in the Philippines.
what do you mean with "higher?"
are you saying that planning is more of a top-down approach to dealing with the built environment?
No sir, I mean it in a horizontal, concentric manner, as in architecture being the end result, but with planning encompassing a bigger scope, since it does not only deal with the physical and human environment, but also other socio-political, economic issues. And if you input the time component into the mix, the profession does go beyond architecture.
maybe so, if you are trained as an architect and planner (which you are!)
but what about planners who are not trained as architects? do they engage the physical human environment in detail?
ah yes, the diversity in planning. in that aspect planning veers away from the traditional master planning way of thinking, and planning now becomes a management course. We have classmates who come from all backgrounds, from art studies to tourism to biology, which makes the experience more exciting. We have specializations from aesthetic providers to number crunchers to exposure to scientific names and what have you.
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