Newsroom

The Evening News: A Special Supplement
October 20, 1970

A Credo

The Modern Architect

 

Beneath the simplicity of modern design is a process of planning, designing, and coordination so complex that the modern building has ceased to be, as in the past, the work of any one master designer and builder.  It has become the product of a well-coordinated group of specialist who approach the solution of the different parts and aspects on a uniform level of skill and competence.

The modern architect is no longer merely a creator of ideas; he must also be an able coordinator and executive.  He coordinates the work of more than a dozen different trades and skills and, since his work is measured in terms of actual buildings, he must be as effective in execution as he should be rich in ideas.

The modern architectural office has ceased to be merely a studio.  It is also a well-equipped and efficiently-operated office where technical problems of the profession are handled with competence and precision, and where the architect’s ideas are translated into actual buildings with the same measure of promptness and efficiency as in any other business office.

This has always been the guiding philosophy behind A.J. Luz Associates, now Arcenas & Payumo Associates.  Every single staff member has been invested with these tenets and the firm has been built up over the years so that the organization itself is bigger than any one individual.  In this way the firm will continue the finest traditions of service even after the original founders shall have ceased to actively participate in its operation.