Leandro V. Locsin was a Filipino architect

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, artist

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, and interior designer

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, known for his use of concrete

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, floating volume and simplistic design in his various projects. An avid collector, he was fond of modern painting and Chinese ceramics. He was proclaimed a National Artist of the Philippines for Architecture

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 in 1990 by President

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 Corazon C. Aquino.
Leandro V. Locsin was born August 15, 1928 in Silay City

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, Negros Occidental

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, a grandson of the first governor of the province. He later studied at the De La Salle Brothers

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 in 1935 before returning to Negros due to the Second World War.