Hoping to find in the fulfillment of these aims- its modest contributions towards the making of a better and happier world to live in.

[citation needed] The official seal of PIA was the original work of its founding president, Arch.

Among the founding members of the organization were Carlos Alejandro Barretto, who gave the name of the organization; Juan F. Nakpil, president; Tomas Mapua, chief of the Bureau of Public Works;[2] Tomas Arguelles, president of AiAAF; Juan M. Arellano, Pablo S. Antonio, and Andrés Luna de San Pedro, from the Bureau of Public Works.

Below is the list of the distinguished 22 members of the PIA who have received the Gold Medal of Merit Award from 1958 to present (2014).

National Artist Leandro V. Locsin, FPIA, FUAP, is the only one has received the first Gawad Gintong Likha Award.

It was posthumously awarded to him in 2006 Since its founding in 1933, the PIA have elected among its members and sections, 52 architects as president of the organization.