NY-based Fil-Am architect holds free talk in SM City

CEBU, Philippines - Filipino-American architect Carlos Arnaiz, who is based in New York, will conduct a free talk about contemporary architecture today, April 26, 3pm at the Conference Hall of SM City Cebu.

Archt.Arnaiz is the architect behind the new and bigger Boracay International Airport and the soon-to-rise Shrine of Mary, Mother of God Church at the SM Seaside City complex at the South Road Properties in Cebu City. The 1,000-seat church stands on a 2,220-square-meter lot of SM Prime Holdings,Inc.

Arnaiz, who finished architecture at Harvard University, has been practicing for a little over 12 years now. After working for a number of firms in the US, he put up his own architecture firm in Brooklyn, CAZA or Carlos Arnaiz Architects, almost four years ago, and now employs a dozen or so associate architects from various parts of the globe. 

Other than in the US and the Philippines, Archt.Arnaiz has ongoing projects in Colombia (where his mother hails from), Brazil and Taiwan. His company, CAZA - a New York-based design studio committed to an optimistic future for architectural thinking, has also done projects in Korea, Malaysia and Costa Rica.