hopePlate 193 · Paoay, Philippines

Paoay Church

A baroque church of enormous buttresses, built against earthquakes and against time.

1710 · Augustinian builders · Asia

The chamber score

Kulintang

Maguindanao · Mindanao

Gongs as rice terraces: stepped, shining, communal.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO Earthquake Baroque church of Paoay.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Paoay Church through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Paoay Church was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.