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 The Professional Regulatory Board of Architecture (PRBoA) recently issued calls / requests to media to refrain from associating the word "architect" with major wrongdoing/s.
It may be noted that over the past week, print and television stories referred to the former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc Joc” Bolante as the "architect of the P728-million fertilizer fund scam", a matter that did not escape the notice of several Philippine architects, who made prompt representations with the PRBoA to communicate the concerns of Philippine architectural community to the concerned media giants i.e. as regards their potentially loose, casual but apparently deliberate association of the word "architect" with wrongdoing.
PRBoA Chairman Arch. Armando N. Alli, fuap said that “architecture is a noble and several millennia old profession, presently practiced by duly qualified, state-regulated natural persons who are steeped in ethical practices. To associate the word “architect” with a major wrongdoing is a signal dishonor to the countless men and women who lawfully practice/d the profession”.
“If wrongdoings are ever cited by the ABS-CBN BC/ ANC, maybe it should be those that are continually done by the tens of thousands of natural and juridical persons who illegally practice the profession of architecture in the country, as well as the public entities that condone, if not promote the continuing violation of R.A. No. 9266 (Architecture Act of 2004 and its IRR), to the obvious disadvantage of the general public”, said Architect Alli.
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