Nobody can deny the authority Architect Buck Sia, principal of Zubu Design Associates, yields. His dominance is palpable, his lean frame towers over most, and possesses the self-assured demeanor one expects of a figurehead. For the few privy to the first meeting, it would seem Sia would meet his match in the astute client of the Cliff House, a man with more than double the years of experience in business and design against Sia.
Done in its signature modernist and progressive architecture, Zubu’s first schemes failed to earn approval from the client, whose current house was a more intricate affair, intended as a showroom for Filipino Craftsmanship.
The whole process was ‘providential’, Sia offers, and begins to explain that unlike most projects, the accessory structures were built first, and the…
