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The 29th National President of the

United Architects of the Philippines

2022 - Present

Ar. RICHARD MANLULU GARCIA,

FUAP, ASEAN AR, PALA, PIEP

He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 1993 with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree and was awarded as one of the school’s Outstanding Alumni in 2018. In the same year, he was recognized as an ASEAN Architect, specializing in Commercial Mixed-Use Developments.


He is the Vice President of and a Senior Partner at Visionary Architecture or VisionArch, one of Building Design Online’s Top 100 architecture firms in the world.


He is a Green Architect and the Architect-of-Record of two LEED-certified projects. In addition to being a licensed architect, he is also licensed to practice Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning.


He has served as a Chapter President of the UAP Quezon City Chapter for three terms and moved his way up to also having served as the Regional District Director for A3; as Executive Director for the UAP Commission on Professional Practice; as Area A Vice President; as the Chancellor of the UAP College of Fellows; As the member Jury fellows; as the National Executive Vice President, and the National President for two consecutive fiscal years (2022-2023 and 2023-2024)


Recently, he became a member of the Professional Regulation Commission’s Career Progression and Specialization Program-Credit Accumulation and Transfer System Program (CPSP-CATS) Committee on Architecture.