Firm Profile
CASISON N SANTIAGO INC., whose proponents are two designers with over 35 years of combined experience. Both are products of the Asian Development Bank Headquarters (ADB) project in Metro-Manila, Philippines, among others they were nurtured and became close associates of Medi Nasrabadi and Craig Kronenberg of Skidmore Owings & Merill (SOM). After ADB, they undertook high profile projects working together closely with colleagues and peers, addressing the needs of different clients, whom are mostly property developers, a task requiring special design skills. Later on, both decided to go on his own way. But once again, heeding a gaining clamor to assemble the combined strenth of their experiences in different fields of practice, they finally decided to come together by putting up this vibrant company, now most popularly know as CNSI. With new design associates to back-up every endeavor this duo would re-create, it is definite that this architectural design concern is envisioned to exude sophisticated and high-quality design ideas with executions paramount to its primary goal - achieve excellence.
LEO C. CASISON is the founding director of Interior Exterior Design Consultancy (IEDC) and founding member of Pimentel Rodriguez Simbulan and Partners (PRSP). He worked in association with Skidmore Owings & Merill (SOM) for over seven years. Aside from SOM, he had worked in collaboration with a number of foreign-based Architectural firms i.e. Architecture International (AI), HHCP, 3DI and other Asian- based design firms. He started his career in 1981 with E.L.Mariano and Associater (ELMA).
LUIS P. SANTIAGO is the sole owner and CEO of TWLS Consultancy and Design Services, a firm put up to mainly cater to defects rectification or rehabilitation of aging or problematic building structures. After he had worked for the famous Dutch construction Company, Ballast Nedam Groep as an architectural quality-control inspector, he went on to be commissioned as an Architectural Clerk-of-Works under the stewardship of Kinhill-Mclachlan Joint Venture Group, an Australian construction project management team tasked in the construction of the new Asian Development Headquarters in Manila. In 1994, he was recruited to join the firm, Pimentel Rodriguez Simbulan and Partners (PRSP) as a field architect on a contractual assignment. He eventually rose to the status of Associate and later, as an Associate Partner, Medi Nasrabadi of SOM played a huge role in molding the way Luis would think and act in dealing with project crisis and design peculiarities alleviating structural, mechanical and aesthetic difficulties. Resultant Immediate resolutions offered or proposed were borne from international work experiences.
Both Leo and Luis have had a huge understanding of required design parameters as basis for ideal mix-use projects. International and local building codes have been thoroughly reviewed and evaluated to allow the clients to maximize the use of the lot limitations, economical material and labor cost saving advantages and also to forecast and make use to the client's benefit, the future developments of adjacent premises.
