The architectural thread connecting all houses in the publication is the bahay-na-bato. The houses featured are all variations on the Philippine architectural archetype of the detached ...

Aside from the beautiful bahay na bato of Bacolor, Pampanga, and Biñan, Laguna, many memorable houses around the country opened their doors to me. These included the Lacson-Claparols house in ...

Stepping through the “Bahay na Bato,” owned by Baguio-based doctors, Edison and Purita Chan-Noble, would be no different from walking on the pebble beach. The floors of the bedrooms and ...

Other descriptions visitors have used include “spooky,” “an Amityville-looking house,” “a plantation house,” and “bahay na bato.” It may look old, but it was finished only last year.

Creating a modern home that will remain essentially Filipino has gone beyond the traditional notions of the bahay kubo and bahay na bato. Apart from the use of indigenous materials such as capiz ...