ONWARDS TO UAP AT 50

Alberto C. Dumlao, UAP, PIEP National Auditor

The UAP 50th Founding Anniversary - Golden Jubilee is set to take place on 2025. However, rather than celebrating this milestone in our organization’s history in just one day, the organizing committee, together with the National Board of Directors thought it would be more appropriate to kick off the event 3 years prior, resulting in a celebration spanning at least 4 Fiscal Years.

With the theme, “Celebrating 50 Years of Unity, Advocacy and Professional Excellence,” the UAP Golden Jubilee will have the following subthemes to be highlighted by all Founding Anniversaries prior to it:

47th Anniversary (2022) – UNITY, Collaboration Across Borders –

Highlighting the UAP:

1. As a product of integration of the three major architectural organizations at the time – the Philippine Institute of Architects (PIA), the League of Philippine Architects (LPA) and the Association of Philippine Government Architects (APGA)

2. In its role as the Integrated and Accredited Professional Organization of Architects (IAPOA) in the Philippines; and

3. As an organization that prides itself in the diversity of its membership, spread across 186 chapters, 3 continents and 9 countries.

48th Anniversary (2023) – ADVOCACY, Providing a Collective Voice for Filipino Architects

Highlighting the UAP’s role as:

1. The collective voice of Filipino Architects; and

2. The front liner in all matters concerning the architecture profession and the built environment.

49th Anniversary (2024) – PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE, The UAP as Vanguard, Steward and Guardian

Highlighting the UAP’s role as:

1. A vanguard of ethical conduct, professional discipline and social responsibility;

2. A steward of the built and natural environment; and

3. A guardian of values relating to nationalism and good citizenship.