Fernando Ocampo
Filipino architect and civil engineer
Fernando Hizon Ocampo, Sr. (August 7, 1897 – 1984) was a Filipino architect and civil engineer.
Biography
Fernando Hizon Ocampo, Sr., A.B., B.S.C.E., B.S. Arch., was born on August 7, 1897, in San Fernando, Pampanga, at the historic Hizon–Ocampo House he was the son of Dr. Basilio Ocampo a gobernadorcillo of San Fernando Pampanga and Leoncia Hizon-Ocampo. One of Manila's renowned architects and Civil Engineer. Ocampo was educated at the ADMU A.B., in 1914; UST College of Engineering, B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1919; and University of Pennsylvania, B.S. in Architecture, 1921. Following his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, he worked in the Ballinger & Perrot Architects+Engineers office of Ar. Emile G. Perrot, AIA, ASCE and Ar. Walter F. Ballinger an architect and engineer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then spent two years traveling in Europe, giving particular attention to architectural designs. Returning to Manila he was for four years an assistant architect in the Bureau of Public Works.
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