hopePlate 192 · Manila, Philippines

San Agustin Church Manila

The oldest stone church in the Philippines, a survivor of war in a walled city.

1607 · 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 church of Intramuros, a monument of the Spanish colonial sacred.

Commission the full chamber

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

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

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if San Agustin Church Manila was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.