Federico Ilustre

It was during his tenure as consulting architect that some of the country's prominent postwar architectural structures were built.

Ilustre graduated with a degree in architecture at the Mapua Institute of Technology, eventually becoming a licensed architect in 1937.

[1] He first joined the Bureau of Public Works in 1936 as a draftsman, staying in that position until the outbreak of World War II in the country in 1941.

After the war, he briefly left the bureau to join the AFWESPAC of the US Army as supervising architect and assist them in the postwar infrastructure rehabilitation.

[2] In addition, he also designed some notable postwar structures, varying in architectural styles from high-modernism to the neo-vernacular.