Cesar Concio

Cesar Homero Rosales Concio Sr. (1907 to 2003) was one of the third-generation Filipino modernists who gave form to postwar reconstruction. He trained across disciplines, earning a civil engineering degree from the University of the Philippines in 1928, an architecture degree from Mapua Institute of Technology in 1932, and a master's in town planning and housing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940.

Concio is best remembered as the first University Architect of the University of the Philippines, in which role he designed a large share of the Diliman campus as it rose in the late 1940s and 1950s. He was also the first dean of the architecture department at Mapua and later the sixth president of the Philippine Institute of Architects, and he helped found the Philippine Institute of Environmental Planners.

His signature work, the Church of the Risen Lord at UP Diliman, completed in 1954, uses a pioneering thin-shell reinforced concrete saddle roof that fused structural daring with quiet spiritual expression. On the same campus he designed academic landmarks such as Melchor Hall for the College of Engineering, and beyond Diliman his hand shaped works including the Redemptorist church in Baclaran.