Mr. Cesar Augusto Concio III is a practicing architect in the Philippines specializing in retrofitting and adaptive reuse of existing buildings and repurposing of space programs.  He is also a lecturer and the thesis coordinator at the College of Architecture, University of Santo Tomas.  Currently he is a national consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime where he is tasked to help draft a uniform correctional design manual based on ethical prison architecture and the Nelson Mandela Rules.  He has also assisted the UNODC in facilitating prison design workshops, as well as transition planning and spatial repurposing of different prisons in different parts of the Philippines. 

 

He has an MA in urban design and planning from the University of Sheffield and has taken short courses on the topics of architecture and power, and retail planning and management from the University of Cambridge and Harvard University respectively.