Federico Ilustre

Education

Ilustre graduated with a degree in architecture at the Mapua Institute of Technology, eventually becoming a licensed architect in 1937.

Career

lieutenant was during his tenure as consulting architect that some of the country"s prominent postwar architectural structures were built. He first joined the Bureau of Public in 1936 as a draftsman, staying in that position until the outbreak of World World War II in the country in 1941. He was then promoted to the position of consulting architect iduring the Japanese Occupation.

After the war, he briefly left the bureau to join the AFWESPAC of the United States Army as supervising architect and assist them in the postwar infrastructure rehabilitation.

In 1947, he became the supervising architect of the National Housing Commission, a position he held for two years until he returned to the Bureau of Public in 1949 also as supervising architect. He would remain with the public works office until the 1970s.

In addition, he also designed some notable postwar structures, varying in architectural styles from high-modernism to the neo-vernacular. Federico Ilustre died in 1989 in Manila, Philippines.

Achievements

• His most notable work would be his design of the Quezon Memorial Shrine monument, a design he made for a national design competition held in 1951 for the then-planned monument for late President Manuel L. Quezon, where he won the grand prize.