Complex sentence: Ten of the leading architects of Manila submitted their entries and the best chosen was the design made by Tomas Mapua, a graduate of Cornell University and subsequent founder of the Mapua Institute of Technology in 1924.
Split into simpler sentences: Ten of the leading architects of Manila submitted their entries and the best chosen was the design made by Tomas Mapua. Mapua was a graduate of Cornell University and subsequent founder of the Mapua Institute of Technology in 1924.