In early 2007 Architect Evangelista set up Studio Evangelista, a professional firm for Architecture and Urban Design. His staff is composed of handpicked former students and his engineering consultants are mostly fellow graduates of U.P. The firm began with designing several residential units but has since worked on schools, commercial buildings, offices, and urban design projects.

Alex Evangelista's favorite works all share such common features as open plans, straightforward circulation patterns, multi-levels, clean facades, fine grains and textures, and a simple mix of contrasting colors. On a larger scale his urban design concepts focus on open spaces, mixed uses, and designing for the pedestrian experience.

Despite this, he refuses to label his work as falling into any particular style, rationalizing that a design is a collaborative effort of the architect and his staff, consultants, contractors, and owners, dependent on the land and neighborhood environment, and often controlled by various outside factors, so that the finished product will always be unique to its own situation. His fundamental objective is client satisfaction, and this therefore, is the firm's specialty.

About the Principal Architect

Alex Evangelista, principal architect of Studio Evangelista, has been a practicing architect for more than 12 years, the same number of years he's been teaching at the U.P. College of Architecture in Diliman. He is also a partner at CDEP (Center for the Designed Environment Professions), a seminar and review center.

He started his training as a draftsman in Luis and Associates and earned his professional license in 1995. After completing Masteral Studies in Urban Design at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA, he explored his professional options in the construction industry. He helped set up AEFD (Abiog, Evangelista, Fresnoza, David) Architects with his college buddies, and served as Architectural Consultant at Accura Construction before he decided to venture out on his own. In the meantime, he had begun teaching at U.P. while taking his second masters program at the School of Urban and Regional Planning.

Working from his home office he designed several houses, commercial centers, school buildings, and industrial facilities, and did acoustical consultancy work. He also teamed up with colleagues from the UPCA faculty to work on several planning and urban design projects.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Current Affiliations

Studio Evangelista, Architecture and Urban Design
Principal Architect
Established 2007

Center for the Designed Environment Professions (CDEP)
Partner, Treasurer
2003 to present

University of the Philippines, College of Architecture
Assistant Professor
Director, Office of Student Relations
1997 to present

Previous Affiliations

Abiog, Evangelista, Fresnoza, David (AEFD), Architects
Partner
1997-1999

• Projects: interior of vintage television offices; feasibility studies and design schematics for Don Bosco High School, Canlubang, Laguna
• Various residential projects

Accura Construction, Incorporated
Architectural Consultant
2000-2001

• Projects: Cabuyao Processing Plants; Renovation of UP Manila; 3-storey residential / commercial building, La Union
• Various residential projects

University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), College of Architecture
Graduate Research Assistant
1995-1997

• Uptown Redevelopment of Fourth Ward, Charlotte, Graduate Thesis, N.C., 1995-96
• Team Member, Redevelopment of the South Park Supermall Vicinity, Mecklenburg County, N.C., 1996

Luis and Associates (L and A), Architects
Designer / Researcher / Draftsman
1993-1994

• Involved in hospital projects: rehabilitation of MCU hospital, Manila; design of St. Louie Hospital, Baguio City
• Team member of various residential and office projects

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

University of the Philippines, Diliman
School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP)
Diploma in Urban Planning, 2002

University of North Carolina
Charlotte, North Carolina
MS Architecture, major in Urban Design, 1996

University of the Philippines, Diliman
College of Architecture
BS Architecture, 1993

ORGANIZATIONS

United Architects of the Philippines, Tandang Sora Chapter (UAP-TSC)
Director, Education Committee (2004 to present)

U.P. College of Architecture Alumni Foundation, Inc.
Member, Board of Trustees (2005 to present)

Architect's Basketball Union
Director, Externals Committee (2006)

Consultants

Staff

Alex Ray P. Evangelista
MS Architecture, BS Architecture, Dip. Urban Planning
Principal Architect

Mark Angelo R. Ong
BS Architecture, UP Diliman, 2006
Junior Architect
Encoder/ Renderer/ Researcher

Cristina Margarita H. Lozano
BS Architecture, UP Diliman, 2007
Junior Architect
Encoder/ Renderer/ Researcher

Razenilo Canlas
BS Architecture
Part-time Perspective Renderer