Paulo Alcazaren
Paulo Alcazaren is an urban planner and landscape architect with project involvements over the last three decades all over Southeast Asia. He is a published author and has been a contributor and columnist to the Philippine Star for the last 20 years. He is a recipient of NCCA, CCP and international professional awards both for his writing and his design work.
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(Paulo is a city planner, urban designer and landscape architect with over three decades of work in Southeast Asia. He is best known in the Philippines as the designer of the Iloilo...
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Paulo Alcazaren
Paulo Alcazaren is an urban planner and landscape architect with project involvements over the last three decades all over Southeast Asia. He is a published author and has been a contributor and columnist to the Philippine Star for the last 20 years. He is a recipient of NCCA, CCP and international professional awards both for his writing and his design work.
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