This wall is lined by a long seat, which continues on three sides. The garden’s elegant space is defined by a low wall that gives it privacy from the main street. Designed by National Artist for Architecture IP Santos, it is also in the 1950s modernist style. On the side of Melchor Hall is a small, forgotten courtyard garden, one of my favorite corners.
In the late 1960s, National Artist for Architecture IP Santos designed this elegant modernist garden that has seen better days. Completed in 1951, the building was named in honor of the noted civil engineer, educator, and mathematician Alejandro Melchor. These mid-century modern buildings gave the campus a physical gravitas that matched its expansive green setting. Both were designed by Cesar Concio, the always dapperly dressed university architect. The building is a mirror of Palma Hall across the greenery spanned by Beta Way.
Melchor Hall, the College of Engineering, also housed the College of Architecture until 2004.
The college transferred to its own complex in 2005. I returned here in 2003 for a short stint teaching. I spent a good part of the 1970s on the fourth and fifth floors of this building, then the home of the College of Architecture, completing my degrees in architecture and landscape architecture.
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