There are various architects – commercial architects, sustainable architects, industrial, conservation, urban designers, interior architects, landscape architects, and so on, but it is being a residential architect that is my preference and to which my career evolved into. My calling to architecture came when I was in my 5th grade. By the age of 11, I was so obsessed with my self-commissioned project ― attempts to draw renovation plans for our previous Makati home that sat in one corner of the property. It was a two-story, two-bedroom residence housing a family of nine. So familial in encouragement, expressing my architecture drifted more towards residential architecture.

I realize that somehow undertaking home designs is much more fulfilling and life-enriching, by enriching that of others. It makes life more worthwhile. Queries to my mom, on the necessities of moving out of the Makati residence and into a new abode in Paranaque, brought about a classic response so inspiring that it became my credo for every residential project I undertake, 'After years of hard work and perseverance, this new house is our 'Crowning Glory'.'