Leandro Vinluan was born in the Philippines in 1922 and studied architecture at the Mapua Institute of Technology (now Mapua University), Manila. Details of his early career are uncertain but in September 1959 he is recorded as enrolled at the Architectural Association, London, for the six-month, post-graduate course run by the Department of Tropical Architecture. He appears to have returned to the Philippines after completing the AA course and is likely to have held a senior role within the Public Works Department or similar architecture-related government body, as he was elected President of the Association of Philippine Government Architects between 1963-65. A move to Ghana followed and by 1967 he was employed as the Senior Research Officer for the Building and Road Research Institute, based on the K.N.U.S.T. campus at Kumasi. Whilst there he published a report on house building costs (for low-cost housing). By 1968 he had moved the US, where he was employed by the practice of Haskell, Conner and Frost, in Elmira, New York State  - whom he was to work for until at least the mid-1970s. He appears to have settled in Elmira and his death there is recorded in 2007.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register, 1959-60. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Council Minutes Books, 22nd February, 1960, p401. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership List, 1961.
• Annual Report, Building and Road Research Institute, Kumasi, 1967.
• Philippine Architecture and Building Journal, 1964, p56
• The Chemsung Historical Journal, 1974, p2428