Archetype Architecture

Archetype Architecture Archetype Architecture is a young, modern architecture practice based in Manila and Bacolod City.

Cala De Luz is architecture as memory, light, and a living facade. This eight-story commercial and office building draws...
03/12/2025

Cala De Luz is architecture as memory, light, and a living facade. This eight-story commercial and office building draws its soul from the coves of Cebu, echoing the moment the island was first encountered by Spanish explorers. Just as those early landings revealed a coastline teeming with life, Cala de Luz reinterprets that discovery through vertical gardens and layered transparency.

Design in-charge:
Averie Pavon

Learn more at www.archetypearchitecture.com/cala-de-luz

Trivane Row is a three-story townhouse in Cebu sculpting shade with an angled screen facade while a double height atrium...
13/10/2025

Trivane Row is a three-story townhouse in Cebu sculpting shade with an angled screen facade while a double height atrium inside floods light through clerestory windows. Inside and out, angled walls echo the rhythm of architecture—modernist and pure.

Learn more at www.archetypearchitecture.com

La Carinderia Manila, originally from Siargao Island and now in Manila, is a humble ode to the rhythm of island life bro...
28/08/2025

La Carinderia Manila, originally from Siargao Island and now in Manila, is a humble ode to the rhythm of island life brought to the metro. Drawing inspiration from Siargao’s vernacular charm, the design departs from Archetype Architecture’s usual formalism, embracing a more grounded, tactile approach. It’s a modernist interpretation of the Filipino carinderia and tropical brutalism; approachable, honest, and rooted in Filipino identity.

Interiors: Archetype Architecture
General Contractor: Cerceta Construction Co.

Learn more at www.archetypearchitecture.com/la-carinderia

47 Kapitolyo —a four-unit townhouse where clarity of form meets thoughtful materiality. Defined by a bold screen facade,...
11/07/2025

47 Kapitolyo —a four-unit townhouse where clarity of form meets thoughtful materiality. Defined by a bold screen facade, the structure invites a closer look.

General Contractor: 1067 Construct

Learn more at www.archetypearchitecture.com/47-kapitolyo

Slice of Life Nestled in between an existing house, this two-story renovation of a property offers a modernist's slice o...
07/05/2025

Slice of Life

Nestled in between an existing house, this two-story renovation of a property offers a modernist's slice of life into an otherwise mundane neighborhood.

Learn more at www.archetypearchitecture.com/slife

The Catholic Ming Yuan University Gymnasium dramatizes an expansive, curved roof over the new sports and events venue of...
16/04/2025

The Catholic Ming Yuan University Gymnasium dramatizes an expansive, curved roof over the new sports and events venue of the institution in Murcia, Negros Island, blending function and form with religious inspiration.

Learn more at www.archetypearchitecture.com/mingyuan-gym

Azaya Memorial Gardens is multiple hectare development in Tarlac, Philippines, aspiring to be a serene space for remembr...
02/04/2025

Azaya Memorial Gardens is multiple hectare development in Tarlac, Philippines, aspiring to be a serene space for remembrance and reflection through a harmonious focal point between nature and architecture.

Learn more at www.archetypearchitecture.com/azaya-memorial-garden

An early project in 2018, Ampersand Building is a three story commercial building in urban Muntinlupa with a cavalcade o...
24/03/2025

An early project in 2018, Ampersand Building is a three story commercial building in urban Muntinlupa with a cavalcade of lines that dominate its form and function.

Learn more at www.archetypearchitecture.com

Maison Minuet, completed February 2025, is a loft space crafted for a couple and their love for music, conceptualized as...
10/03/2025

Maison Minuet, completed February 2025, is a loft space crafted for a couple and their love for music, conceptualized as the inspiration of an upright piano in blending functionality with minimalism. Above, the loft level offers a private retreat as a sleeping area that transforms into a music studio.

Architecture by Archetype Architecture
General Construction by Lopez Construction and Development Corporation

Learn more at www.archetypearchitecture.com/maison

Together, let's reimagine spaces, challenge conventions and shape the future of architecture, one building at a time.Sub...
08/02/2025

Together, let's reimagine spaces, challenge conventions and shape the future of architecture, one building at a time.

Submit your CV and portfolio to:
[email protected]

Season's greetings from our studio to yours! We'd like to thank all our partners, clients and benefactors for all the su...
24/12/2024

Season's greetings from our studio to yours! We'd like to thank all our partners, clients and benefactors for all the support this year. Our office is taking a break and will resume work on January next year.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year this coming 2025.

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Manila
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