MANILA, Philippines — National hero Jose Rizal was the “guiding light” for the House of Representatives’ legislative agenda, Speaker Martin Romualdez said on Monday.

But to architects like Fabian Tan, it’s all in the design. Located in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Jose House was a typical single-storey terrace house measuring 23’ x 75’ (7m x 23m) in size.

Ledda, thoughtfully included a site visit during my stay to deliver two lectures at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and the Royal Literary Society in Ghent, the nearby city where Jose Rizal ...