A Higher Purpose
Juan Cuevas is an architect who other architects are beginning to talk about in vague, myth-like terms: ‘that Spanish guy in the jungle’ or ‘the architect who works without tools’. All of these are true, and more.
Cuevas first moved to Asia from Madrid to work for multinational architectural firms on multimillion-dollar projects, first in Shenzhen, then later in Hong Kong. But he grew tired of the corporate rigmarole and wanted to do something with a greater human impact.
Cuevas’s brother at the time was working in a sustainable construction practice in Europe, and the two began to hatch a plan. Together, they would move to the Philippines and contribute to rebuilding efforts in
