History of Architecture FEU-ALE Reviewer PDF
History of Architecture FEU-ALE Reviewer PDF
History of Architecture FEU-ALE Reviewer PDF
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. Definitions
1.1.1. History of Architecture 2.3.2. DOLMENS
It is a record of man’s effort to build Several large stones capped with a
beautifully. It traces the origin, growth covering slab
and decline of architectural styles
which have prevailed lands and ages.
1.1.2. Historic Styles of Architecture
The particular method, characteristics,
manner of design which prevailed at a
certain place and time.
1.2. Factors affecting the Styles of Architecture
1.2.1. History
1.2.2. Society
1.2.3. Religion
1.2.4. Geography
1.2.5. Geology
1.2.6. Climate
2. PRE-HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE
2.1. Influences 2.3.3. TRILITHON
2.1.1. History Organized groups of three stones, two
Neolithic or New Stone Age (8000 to vertical and a horizontal one at their top
3000 B.C.)
Hunting and food gathering
2.1.2. Religion
No organized religion
Burial rituals and monuments
3.3.6. TEMPLES
Mortuary temples – In honor of
pharaohs
Cult temples – In honor of god
3.3.4. PYLONS
Monumental gateway to temples,
usually composed of two masses of
masonry with sloping sides flanking the
entrance portal
Temple of Hatshepsut
Designed by the royal architect
Senemut for Queen Hatshepsut
3.3.5. OBELISKS
Tall tapering shaft of stone, usually
granite, monolithic, square in plan with
an electrum-capped pyramidion on top
symbolizing the sun-god Heliopolis
Came in pairs fronting temple
entrances
Height of nine or ten times the diameter
at the base with four sides featuring
Hieroglyphics
5. GREEK ARCHITECTURE
5.1. Influences
5.1.1. History
Aegean Period Cyclopean wall
2 major cultures 5.2.2. EXAMPLES
Minoan (flourished in Crete) Minoan Architecture:
Mycenaean (mainland and others) Houses
Minoan architecture Megaron – single-storeyed house of
Mycenean architecture deep plan, columned entrance porch,
Ancient Greek architecture anteroom with central doorway, living
Archaic Greek architecture apartment or megaron proper, central
Classical Greek architecture hearth, columns supporting roof ,
Late Classical Greek thalamus, or sleeping room behind
architecture
Hellenistic Architecture
5.1.2. Religion
Nature worship, religious rites, sacred
games, ritual dances, sacrifices. Their
gods live in nature, mountains,
assumed human form and was not free
from human weakness
5.1.3. Geography and Geology
Mainland: mountainous hinterlands
separated inhabitants into groups,
clans, and states
Archipelago and islands: sea was the
inevitable means of trade and
communication
5.1.4. Climate
Between rigorous cold and relaxing
heat
Clear atmosphere and intense light The Megaron
5.2. AGEAN PERIOD
5.2.1. ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER Palaces: Palace of King Minos,
DESCRIPTION: Rough and massive Knossos, Crete 1600-1400
structures B.C.
COLUMNIATION, CAPITALS: Two-part
capital: square abacus above and
circular bulbous echinus below
Wall: Cyclopean wall – large stones, no
mortar, clay bedding
Treasury of Atreus
The best preserved “beehive
tomb”
Built into a hill and
approached by a long
passage, the dromos, leading
to the beehive shape round
tomb chamber, tholos
5.3. Ancient Greek Architecture (Hellenic)
5.3.1. ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER
DESCRIPTION: mostly religious
architecture OPENINGS: Clerestory – between roof
and upper wall
IONIC TEMPLES
CORINTHIAN TEMPLES
Composite Order
CIRCULAR TEMPLE
Opus Quadratum
Opus Incertum
Trajan’s Forum
Thermae of Caracalla
BASILICAS: large public hall where law-
THEATERS: Greek-type adapted to suit
suits were heard; hall of justice;
Roman drama; Semicircular in plan
commercial exchange
and consisted of a tall stage building
abutting a semicircular orchestra and
tiered seating area (cavea)
DWELLINGS:
Domus – private house
Villa – country house
Insula – apartment block
Republican house, consisted of an
entrance corridor (fauces)
Pont du Gard, Nimes, France
main room (atrium) open to the sky
with a central basin for the collection of
TOWN GATEWAYS AND ARCHWAYS
rainwater
BRIDGES
Series of small bedrooms (cubicula)
MEMORIAL COLUMN
Office area (tablinum)
PALACES
Dining room (triclinium)
FOUNTAINS
kitchen (culina), and perhaps a
Plan
S. Clemente, Rome
S. Maria Maggiore, Rome
S. Apollinare, Ravenna
S. Agnese Fuori Le Mura, Rome
Baptistery of Constantine, Rome
S. Costanza, Rome
Pisa Cathedral
Monreale Cathedral, Palermo Forms one of most famous building
groups in the world – campanile and
S. Giovanni degli Eremiti, Palermo Campo Santo
La Zisa, Palermo Baptistery – designed by Dioti Salvi
Campanile – aka the “Leaning Tower of
9.5. CENTRAL ITALY Pisa”
9.5.1. INFLUENCES: The wall is covered with white and pink
HISTORY marble.
Rome, Florence, Naples, Pisa The dome at the Crossing is additional
Rich in pagan influence at later period.
Geography and Geology The Bell Tower was designed by
Great stone and mineral wealth at Bonanno
Tuscany – bricks, tufa, peperino,
travertine, marble 9.6. NORTH FRANCE
Ruins of classical buildings 9.6.1. INFLUENCES
9.5.2. EXAMPLES: Geography and Geology
CATHEDRALS Fine Caen stone
Concentrated on beauty and delicacy Pumice and tufa
of ornamental details, instead of new Climate
construction systems Wintery in north
Resembles early basilican churches in 9.6.2. EXAMPLES
plan CATHEDRALS
Remains of old buildings were less
abundant, greater freedom of
developing new style
Norwich Cathedral
St. Albans Cathedral
Winchester Cathedral
Bristol Cathedral
Carlisle Cathedral
Chichester Cathedral
Exeter Rochester
Oxford
Worcester
Canterbury Cathedral
Santiago de Compostela
Finest achievement of Romanesque
architecture in Spain
Windsor Castle
The largest inhabited castle in the
world and, dating back to the time of
William the Conqueror, is the oldest in
continuous occupation
Tower of London
Castle Hedingman, Essex
Orford, Suffolk
Conisborough, Yorkshire
Sexpartite Vault
Point of departure from classic
10.3. FRANCE Vaulting framework of intersecting
10.3.1. INFLUENCES pointed arch ribs, which supports thin
History stone panels
1200 – 1600 A.D. with 1337 to 1453
A.D., the “Hundred Years War” began Difficulty of vaulting oblong
with England; restlessness compartments – overcome by using
Feudal system, tyranny of lords over pointed arches over shorter span and
common people sometimes retaining semi-circular
Religious zeal – Christianity was united arches for diagonal or longer spans
against Muslims; Crusades
10.3.2. ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER Downward and outward pressures from
DESCRIPTION: the term “Gothic” in vault were collected by meeting of ribs
reproach to this style – a departure at angles; oblique pressure was
from classic lines counter-acted by buttresses or flying
General use of “Pointed Arch” “L buttresses weighted by pinnacles
‘architecture Ogivale”
3 periods: Walls – less needed supports, released
PRIMARIE(1200 AD) from load-bearing function; invention of
“A lancettes” colored, stained glass window to adorn
Pointed arch and geometric traceried window-walls.
windows
SECONDAIRE (1300 AD)
“Rayonnant”
Circular windows, wheel tracery
TERTIARE (1400 – 1600 AD)
“Flamboyant”
Flame-like window tracery
10.3.3. EXAMPLES
CATHEDRALS
CASTLES
Built on mounds above rivers with thick
walls and small windows to resist
attack
Later adapted to make convenient
residences
Chateau de Pierrefonds
Notre Dame de Paris Chateau de Ambrose
One of the oldest French cathedrals;
begun by Bishop Maurice de Sully COUNTRY HOUSES
With the development of gunpowder
and new social order, country houses
took the place of fortified citadels
Still called “chateaux”
“flying buttress”
Reims Cathedral
Chateau de Josselin
Chartres Cathedral
Beauvais Cathdral Chateau de Justice, Rouen
Laon Cathedral Chateau d’O, Mortree
Soissons Cathedral
Ceiling Plan
Lierne vault Lierne stellar vaulting
Fan vaulting
REFERENCES FOR VAULTING: Scanned image and text by George P. Landow
(2007)
Fletcher, Bannister, and Bannister F. Fletcher. A History of Architecture on the
Comparative Method for the Student, Craftsman, and Amateur. 16th ed. New
Sexpartite vaulting Waggon vaulting York: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1958.
Aisle Roof
Gothic doorway;
Perpendicular style
REFERENCE: Scanned image and text by George P. Landow (2007)
Fletcher, Bannister, and Bannister F. Fletcher. A History of Architecture on the
Comparative Method for the Student, Craftsman, and Amateur. 16th ed. New
York: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1958.
Parts:
Great Hall, (sometimes aisled)
Chapel
Latrine chamber
Service rooms
Kitchens
Westminster Abbey; most important Central hearth
medieval building in England; largest
area and width (32 m. inside) TUDOR MANOR HOUSES; increased
number and variety of rooms;
Yorkminster
Quadrangular court from which many
Wells Cathedral rooms entered directly. Battlement
parapets and fortified gateways used
for ornamentation
11.5. ROME
11.5.1. INFLUENCES
History: Roman ruins supplied models
for new buildings, which served as
model for all of Europe; political
authority of pope in Rome
Revival of building in Rome brought by The Tempietto, San Pietro, Montorio, Rome
stable government, increased Architectural gem by Bramante
population and wealth
11.5.2. ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER
Wall: frequently screened with
pilasters, both singled and coupled on
each storey, sometimes up to two
storeys to give grandness
Types of Pediments
11.8. ENGLAND
11.8.1. INFLUENCES
History: great wars of 1800 and 1900;
continental travels closed to
Englishmen
Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire St. Paul Cathedral, London by Sir Christopher Wren
Aftermath examples:
Public Buildings:
12.3. AMERICA
12.3.1. ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER
3 PERIODS:
Post – Colonial (Neo-Classic elements) Monticello, near Charlottesville,
First Eclectic Phase – (Greek revival, Virginia by Thomas Jefferson (3rd
Gothic and Egyptian styles American president – Palladian
Second Eclectic Phase: style)
with 2 main streams – Biltmore, Ashville, North Carolina by
• Gothic Revival by HH RM Hunt (first American architect
Richardson trained at Ecole Beaux-Artes)
Louis Sullivan (early French Renaissance
Frank Lloyd Wright chateau)
• Ecole des Beaux-Artes, Stoughton House, Cambridge,
Italian and French Massachusetts by Mckim, Mead
Renaissance, ancient and White (shingle-style)
Greek and Roman, late Winslow House, River Forest, Illinois
Gothic (more academic in (first important work of Frank Lloyd
character) Wright aka Prairie House)
Structural experiment and Taliesin East, Spring Green, Wisconsin
achievement: metal frame by Frank Lloyd Wright
Unity Temple, Oak park, Illinois by The Chapel and Post Headquarters,
Frank Lloyd Wright U.S. Military Academy, West Point
New York by Cram Goodhue and
Educational, Civic and Public Buildings: Ferguson
The Temple of Scottish Rite,
Washington D.C. (Masonic
Temple) by John Russel Pope
(similar to Mausoleum,
Halicarnassos)
13.1.3. EXAMPLES
Dulles International Airport Building by
Eero Saarinen
Notre-Dame-du-Haut
Ronchamp, France by Le Corbusier
Mosque or Jami
Principal place of worship, Friday
prayer; inward-looking building
whose prime purpose is
contemplation and prayer; no
positive object of attention or
adoration; maybe used as a school
place for transactions, storage for
treasures, place for hearing official Dome of the Rock or Kubbet-es-Sakhra,
notices Jerusalem (most important Islamic
structure) great central dome covering
the summit of Mt. Moriah, from where
the prophet is believed to have made
his ride to heaven
JAPANESE INVASION
December 1941
Puppet government
Liberation by the US under Gen.
McArthur in July 1945
INDEPENDENCE in 1946
3rd largest English speaking nation in
the world
Citadel of Christianity and democracy
in East Asia
Mixture of races; Malay, Chinese, Tree-house
Spanish Generally built in the forked branches
of high trees (6-18 m.) or high
18.1.2. Religion stumps (4.5 - 6 m.) w/c serves as
Roman Catholics foundations houses are anchored
Islam to nearby trees by means of rattan
Protestants
Aglipayan Cordillera Region
Iglesia ni Kristo Isneg
Kalinga
18.1.3. Geography and Geology Bontoc
Archipelago of 7100 islands Ifugao
3 main island groups – Luzon, Visayas Panay Region
and Mindanao Mindanao & Sulu Region
Las Piñas Church by Fr. Diego Cera Sta. Ana Church, Manila by Fr. Vicente Ingles
restored by Juan Nakpil
Manila Cathedral by Bishop Domingo Salazar Laoag Church, Ilocos Norte by Fr. Joseph Ruiz
(sinking bell tower)
Loboc Church, Bohol (biggest number of Morong Church, Rizal (Spanish Baroque style by Fr.
murals on walls and ceilings) Blas dela Madre
VERNACULAR TERMS:
Abang – dowel
Alahado – flush
Alero – eaves
Alulod o kanal – gutter
Andanyo – scaffolding
Asinta – laying of CHB
Asolehos – wainscoating tiles
Bagad – wall post
Calasiao Church, Pangasinan (2nd best bell tower) Balangkas – framework
by Fr. Ramon Dalinao Baral de Kadena – chain bolt
Barandillas – baluster
Batidura – astragal
Batidura – fillet
Baytang – tread
Biento – spacing
Biga – beam
Bisagra –hinge
Bolado – projection
Caida – hall
Canal – groove
De Bandeha – panel door
Miagao Church, Iloilo by Dish rack – bangguerahan
Fr. Fernando Comporedondo Dos aguas – gable roof
Dotal – floorboards
Dulang – low table
Dutcha – shower
Escombro – earth fill
Escondro – crushed stone
Estanyo – Nikolite bar
Estanyo – soldering bar
Estopa – oakum
Guililan – floor sill
Hamba pintuan – door jamb
Taal Church, Batangas by Fr. Martin Aguirre
Haspe – wood grain
(biggest church)