Though he never finishes college, he built the San Juanico Bridge and the North and South Expressways, undertook the massive Manila Bay reclamation project, initiated the export of Philipino labor to the Middle East, and ran the Sheraton, the Pines Hotel, and the Taal Vista Lodge, among many other enterprises. He built the Construction Development Corporation of the Philippnes (CDCP) into the country’s largest construction conglomerate of its time. And yet many Philipinos remember him only today as a “Marcos crony,” a tag he will not deny. At his heart, however, Rodolfo “Rudy” Cuenca was a builder of bridges – and a witness to some of the most interesting and significant events of 20th century Philippines.