Architectural Heritage Student Society

appreciating history while enabling each other to become good stewards of architectural heritage.

[TeN @TeN]

Some ideas spread because they are repeated.

Not because they are true.

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

Ang Araw ng Kalayaan ay di lamang tungkol sa pag-alala sa nakaraan. ito rin ay tungkol sa ating patuloy na pagmamahal, pagpapahalaga, at pagpangalaga sa bayan.

Sa buong puso, isip, at kilos, tayo ay manindigan sa pagpapahalaga at pagpangalaga sa ating bayan.
🇵🇭

[EL PAÍS @el_pais]

📺 TV en DIRECTO | Así ha sido el espectáculo de luminoso en homenaje a Gaudí para inaugurar la nueva torre de la Sagrada Familia https://t.co/lUGOsi78sS

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

@sagradafamilia With praise and thanksgiving and in our smallness, may God bless this manmade marvel 🙏❤️

[lusso @luusssso]

The Brazilians don’t get enough credit for basically inventing Tropical Brutalism

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

went around Manila a few days ago. just trying out video editing tool i got carried away using effects . enjoy 😅

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

what happened to my post?

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

The weathered version had soul. The restoration is period-accurate and museum-polished w/c fits NMP’s Important Cultural Property mandate, but loses what locals loved. Whatever happened to “the less you touch, the better”?

[🇵🇭フィリピン留学エージェント「YouShare」親子・ジュニア・大人 @KyokzP]

フィリピン🇵🇭ドゥマゲッティの『ベルタワー』がリニューアル……?!

⇦昔のベルタワー
⇨新しいベルタワー

個人的には、昔のあの趣ある雰囲気が好きだったなぁ…
歴史を感じる感じが良かったのに、かなり変わっていてびっくり。

「そのまま残してほしかった派」です🙋‍♀️

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

@KyokzP 😱

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

@_TineAlvarez thank you. though ive never been there im aware of Zamboanga as southern trading hub in the PH, these colonial influences create landmarks that aid navigation and city character.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ❤️

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

In architecture, this kind of corner treatment appears in a lot of trading cities from the early 1900s like Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong, even old Manila commercial buildings. Corner becomes almost like a small urban monument, even though it’s just a shop or office building.

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

Old shophouses with the ornate, curved gables and peeling paint, classic examples of early-to-mid 20th-century Bangkok architecture. ❤️
They've been standing there through the transition from fish market (late 1800s-mid-1900s) to flower central in the 1950s-70s.
(3/30/2026)

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

During the period when the United States governed the Philippines from 1899 to 1946, the definition of what counted as a “U.S. university” briefly extended beyond the North American mainland. This created an unusual situation where institutions in U.S.-controlled territories could be considered within the same national framework as those in the continental United States.

Within that context, Harvard University, established in 1636 and long regarded as the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, was technically no longer the oldest under U.S. jurisdiction. That distinction shifted to the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, which had been founded in 1611 during the Spanish colonial era and predated Harvard by 25 years.

However, this “loss” of status depends entirely on how one defines the United States and its institutions. Harvard remained the oldest university within the mainland United States, while the University of Santo Tomas was part of a different historical and cultural system that only fell under American control during the Philippine-American period. Once the Philippines gained independence in 1946, Harvard resumed its uncontested position as the oldest university in the United States.

#archaeohistories

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

The Bare family is upholding a multi-generational covenant with the land that built this country. That kind of conviction of choosing legacy and purpose over a windfall is exactly what “heritage” looks like when it’s actually practiced instead of just romanticized. Respect.

[Jack @jackunheard]

🚨BREAKING: Kentucky family rejects a $26 million offer to turn their farmland into a data center, roughly 10x the area’s going rate.

“If it’s my way, I’ll stay and hold and feed a nation. 26 million doesn’t mean anything.”

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

@unlawyer love the soft colors, clean lines, and romanticized view of urban scenes. thank you for sharing this.

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

Santa Cruz Church, established in 1603 as one of Manila's oldest, features a distinctive dome-topped tower that survived wars and earthquakes, the enduring colonial architecture in the Philippines. (colonial-era street life with vendors and a horse-drawn cart is ❤️)

[@[email protected] @unlawyer]

A 1924 ukiyo-e woodblock print of what looks like the bell tower of Manila's Santa Cruz Church, by Elizabeth Keith.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

When people lose touch with their soul and just focus on functionality

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

student project

[History Defined @historydefined]

A 2000-year-old Roman water channel that still flows today. This incredible underground aqueduct is hidden right inside the Smyrna Agora in Izmir, Türkiye.

[Architectural Heritage Student Society @ArchiSocPH]

Tailor bird, local name ‘sastre’. a non-human example of “place-based architecture”
wherein design emerges from intimate ecological knowledge rather than industrial production.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Natural architect…