new interpretive grounds

Paulo G Alcazaren completed his BS Architecture and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degrees at UP, Diliman. He has a Master’s degree in Urban Design from the National University of Singapore. He has been a practicing design consultant in planning, urban design and landscape architecture for the last 39 years with twelve of those spent in Singapore as head of PDAA Design Pte Ltd. He has been principal planner, urban designer or landscape architect in charge of over two hundred projects in fourteen countries. He is currently head of PGAA Creative Design, Manila. He is a registered and licensed Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner.

L Arch/EnP Paulo Alcazaren is the recipient of several awards for urban design and landscape architecture from the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia. He is also an award-winning writer and photographer with several books and publications to his credit. He was EIC of BluPrint Magazine from 2002-2012 and editor in chief of The Philippine Yearbook for four editions. He writes a regular column in the Philippine Star on architecture, planning, urbanism, and design. In 2016 he won the CCP Gawad para sa Sining award for architecture. In 2017 he won the NCAA Haligi ng Dangal Award for the design of the Iloilo Esplanade. In 2019 he won the DTI/DCP Good Design Award for the Makati Urban Patios Project. His advocacies are in Heritage Conservation, green cities and bringing back parks, open spaces and sidewalks in our cities.