Cañada, Rose Theresa

Estoreon, Maelou
Torres, Jameya Theresa
AR 458 R3 l MWF 4:30-5:30

ACTIVITY: ENTER INTO THE ARCHITECT’S MIND

1. Name: Ar. Dante Morales, RLA

2. Year Graduated: March of 1982

3. Year passed the Architecture Licensure Exam: November of 1982

4. Other Licensure Exams passed (if applicable): N/A

5. Length of years in the practice: 35 years

6. Specialization if there is (Architectural Interiors, Acoustic Design, Architectural

Lighting, etc.): General Design

7. Current job: Faculty

a. What do you like about your present job?

- Public Relations

8. What is your Design Philosophy?

- Design is forever a learning process

9. What skill has served you best in your architecture career?

- Drawing / Sketching

As an “Individual” Professional practitioner:

1. What was your “first” project being a licensed and registered Architect?

- A 100-sq.m. one-storey single detached house

a. How did you meet your client?

-Family friend
 b. How did you build trust with your client?

-Friendship

2. What are some projects you have done already? (local or nationwide)

- Mostly residential buildings

- Local: Cebu-wide

- Nationwide: Metro Manila (Pasig, Cainta)

3. How do you enter into contract with the owner as the Lead Professional working

with other professionals in the engineering and allied profession? DADS or

DAEDS?

- Through the General Contractor

4. How do you ensure that a project starts off properly?

- Conduct coordination meetings

5. Which project has given you the most satisfaction this far? What did you do to

make it a success?

- Recent project

- With a Project Manager

6. How do you handle stress /pressure or worst dispute in handling your Client or

Allied forces?

- Rescind the contract

7. What are the important issues or considerations or challenges you commonly

encountered in all your projects?

- Budget/Funding
 8. In the regular Design Services, can you share to us a picture of how the inception

of the project starts up to the end of the project? How do you establish fees and

payment schemes in every stage?

- Orient the client with the schedule of the fees and payment or case-to-case

basis

9. Did you have difficulty coordinating from different parties on a construction project?

How did you manage?

- Through Project Manager

10. Was there a time or opportunity that you persuaded a stakeholder about your idea?

- Yes

11. Was there a time that priorities changed during a project? How did you handle it?

- Yes. Through consultation

12. What is/are some of the Owner’s responsibilities that you had difficulty in dealing

about?

Final Questions:

1. Are Architects busy?

- Yes

2. What advice would you give to aspiring architect?

- Learn architecture by heart

3. What is one aspect/area in Architecture (academic) that you wished you had

known while still a student studying Architecture?

- Business aspect of being an Architect