HISTORY, ARCHITECTS AND FIRM

History...The Architects.. and The Firm...

It was the Discipline, Focus and meeting deadlines that moulded Ma. Elena to explore more on the

Interior Design and find passion in Handling an Architectural Office. The Zaldarriaga Sisters were

passionate in drawing-out the talent in each employee and “To Be Distinctive” was an encouraging

statement she treasured from that them.

ARCH . MA. ELENA EVANGELISTA LAMASAN, Uap was a young designer at Z-Design

Incorporated during the 90’s in the wall street of Ayala Avenue, Makati City when her immediate

superior Ma. Del Carmen (Maricar) Zaldarriaga influenced their Design Team on the poise and

appropriateness of a Designer as they deal with Interior Design of Offices, High-End Residential and

Food Chains in Metro Manila and Luzon.

It was the Discipline, Focus and meeting deadlines that moulded Ma. Elena to explore more on the

Interior Design and find passion in Handling an Architectural Office. The Zaldarriaga Sisters were

passionate in drawing-out the talent in each employee and “To Be Distinctive” was an encouraging

statement she treasured from that them.

In 1995, Ma. Elena joined the Academe as Faculty Member of Far Eastern University, Institute of

Architecture and Fine Arts, Manila. This noble job had offered her continues Learning, Passion for

Mentorship and kept her updated of the latest Trends in Business and Profession. It was continued when

she later in 2000 took part as one of the Faculty Members of her Alma Mater, College of Architecture of

the University of San Agustin, Iloilo City. She also spent years in the Department of Architecture of the

National University, Manila. These challenges in the academe had brought her to take up Masters

Degree in Architecture at Mapua Institute of Technology, Manila.

As part of her quest for welfare for the colleagues in the profession, in the years 2012 onwards, Ma.

Elena became active in Advocacy known Architecture Advocacy Forum (AAF), an Advocacy for the

Architectural Profession of the Filipino Architecture Community with more than 5,000 members thru the

social media worldwide. To its purposes better known and pursued, she became the Charter Vice

President of the Architecture Advocacy Federation Corporation (AAFed Corp) in 2013-2014. She also

became a member of the AAIF, Architecture Advocacy International Foundation.

On 1995, with the back-up of her husband Arch. Reynold Cabrera Lamasan, she registered their

first professional venture, the Evangelista-Lamasan and Associates : Architects & Builders. A

Single Proprietorship "Professional Services" Business that gave consolation to home owners in fulfilling

their Dream Homes thru Pag-ibig and SSS Loans.

That Evangelista-Lamasan and Associates enabled Condo Unit Owners who wanted to see

their small units look cheerful and bigger. Many Kitchen and Lanai were Interior pocket projects. It was

also this Services that had shared in the Job-out designs for Greenwich and reach up to the 200th

Jollibee Store Outlet in Luzon thru Z-Design Inc, Ayala Avenue, Makati in her stay with the

company, years 1987-1994.

ARCH. REYNOLD CABRERA LAMASAN, Uap, known of having an “in-born” talent and has

been a show-off in “ making A DIFFERENCE “ was a supportive husband and business partner. From

his student life and even until when he took the Architect’s Board Examination , his excellence was

proven coveting the 6th Placer in July 1994. Reynold is one of the most hired Furniture Designer that

got award in FAME: Furniture Exhibits aside from an Artist/Painter himself.

His confident and eye-striking designs made him stay for 5 years at Al Awami Planners and

Consultants, Qatif, Saudi Arabia during the years 1987-1991. Villas and Commercial Building

Designs harnessed his design strategies. He was later assigned to manage the Office Production and

the Construction Site Installations by WIN-DOOR, the pioneer in the production of UPvc Doors and

Windows in the Middle East in the early 1990’s.

Going back in the Country was another worthy and challenging Designer Roles with Asian Design

Resources (ADR) under Arch Conrad Onglao, with ARTEMIS (ARM Interiors ) under Anton

Mendoza and with MEC Design under Mary Elen Castillo. Here, he polished more his innate skills in

Interior and Architectural Designs and Free-hand Presentations where Computers were not yet in the

Drafting rooms those years. Pouring of new adventurous ideas were always in a day but Arch Rey still

managed to do his own sideline construction projects outside by friend clients that were a great

contributions to establishing his private practice and establishing his own firm in the later years.

Unstoppable as he sees it, the span of 5 years was remarkable as Contacts and Clients increased.

This time with more experiences gained and the promising vibes of year 2002 , Arch Reynold C.

Lamasan registered the RC Lamasan and Associates : Architects-Engineer-Consultants

Firm taking the place of the previous Evangelista-Lamasan and Associates-Services Business. Millions

faces them and a website “RCLA Architects” toll a bridge with them in the social media and the

Industry in the cyberworld. RCLA Architects specialized in DESIGN-BUILD SERVICES and notable

in High-End Residential, Medium Rise Commercial Buildings, School Buildings and Resort Condotels.

In 2003, RCLA Architects found a niche for its expertise in Commercial / Residential Buildings Design

and Construction Package at 3-4-5 Storey, with the Engineers from the Evangelista-Lamasan Clan and

with the Construction Team from the Visayas. A Four Storey near UST, a Five Story at Nagtahan, Manila

and High-end Residentials in Alabang. Beginning 2007, the team held a chance to expand in the

Visayas with the prominent Boracay Resort Condotel, Swimming Pools and Residential. These venture

in Boracay opened Resort Design opportunities in other parts of the country such as

Palawan and Batangas.

With the extensive experience and the joint effort of RC LAMASAN AND ASSOCIATES (RCLA

Architects) for Design-Build Services and the MARU BUILDERS for the Construction, both on Single

Proprietorship, in year 2015 - the birth of the RCLA MARU ARCHITECTS CO. and the MARU

CONGLOMERATE Ltd. Assures the Clients of a Highly Professional partnership starting from the

Conceptualization for the Dream Built-Environment up to the Construction Implementation.

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And so we say...”Let it Be”.