UNITED Architects of the Philippines (UAP) has relaunched the Design Excellence Awards (DEA) to honor architectural masterpieces in the country.
The call for entries is open to all Filipino architects. Awards will be given under four categories — Residential, Commercial & Industrial, Institutional, and Complex-type Architecture. A People’s Choice award will be based on public voting during the online publication of all short-listed entries.
“The comeback of DEA from its initial conception in 1995, is a renewed challenge to all architects in the country today to show the world how architecture uplifts quality of life, economic opportunity, environmental preservation, sustainability, and cultural identity in ways that are truly befitting of the Filipino people,” UAP said in a statement.
Judges include three LIKHA awardees, one guest foreign architect for the year, and one non-architect representative from the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) or the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).
The awards will be announced in March 2020 during the Design Excellence Awards Celebration when the UAP celebrates its 45th founding anniversary.
