Architectural Styles and Elements

Architectural Styles and Elements

• The Gothic architectural style uses gargoyles.
• Narthex is the enclosed or open western doorway in Christian or Byzantine basilicas or churches.
• Gothic architecture emerged in Romanesque and Byzantine architecture during the 12th century.
• Clerestory windows are permitted in Gothic Cathedrals due to methods of structural support.
• A pediment in a Classical Greek temple consists of the tympanum, often decorated with relief sculpture depicting scenes from Greek and Roman mythology or allegorical figures.
• The term "crenelation" is also known as "none of the above" in a medieval castle.
• A Stoa is a long colonnaded building during Roman times.
• A Vault results from extruding an arch along its axis.
• Byzantine Architecture is exemplified by the Hagia Sophia.
• "Less is Only More Where More Is No Good" is a dictum belonging to Frank Lloyd Wright.
• A Merlon in Medieval architecture is sometimes narrowly pierced by vertical embrasure "slits" to view and fire through when defending a structure, and is used for aesthetically enhancing the upper walls of a castle, and adding balance to its verticality.
• A pediment is the triangular structure on top of an entablature.
• A post is a structure that raises a building from the ground.
• A bay window is a projecting window forming a bay in a room, supported from below by corbels or brackets, and usually located at the highest story of the building.
• The Japanese bracketing method was commonly applied to the roof system of a structure.

Buildings and Architects

• Yorkminster Cathedral is a church where the 5 sister window is found.
• The First Lady Present of UAP and ARCASIA is Yolanda Reyes.
• Bauhaus is a famous architectural school known for its commercial style in the 20th century.
• The first steel church in Asia is San Sebastian Church.
• Teofilio I. Vasquez is the architect of the UAP building.
• Kenzo Tange is the architect with the dictum, "Modern architecture need not to be western".
• Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe is the architect with the famous dictum "Less is More."
• Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City, was designed by Felipe Mendoza 1978.
• Our Lady of the Gate Parish Church (Daraga Church) was built in 1777.
• Van Allen is the architect of the Chrysler Building.
• Altoon + Porter are the Design Architects of Makati Bonifacio High Street City Center in Bonifacio Global City.
• Walter Gropius stated that architecture is an inseparable work of art.
• "Function Follows Form" resembles Modernism architecture.
• The Roman Coliseum was built to provide a permanent purpose-built arena in the centre of Ancient Rome for staging various forms of entertainment (gladiator games, showcasing of exotic animals, etc) for the Ancient Romans.
• Cubicula, a small room in ancient history, is from the Roman architectural period.
• Minouro Yamasaki is the architect of the World Trade Center.
• The method of transferring 2-ton rocks on the pyramid was to lift it one by one on top of the other.
• Jorn Utzon is the Architect of the Sydney Opera House.
• Le Corbusier's real name is Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris.
• The Cathedral of Commerce Building is the Woolworth Building.
• Corbet & Hood were the Architects of the Rockefeller Center.
• The paved patterns in the courtyard of St. Peter's Basilica were designed by Bramante.
• The Architect Zaragosa was involved in the Quiapo Church.
• Frank Gehry is the architect of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
• Steel is the material used in the Guggenheim at Bilbao.
• A project of Felipe Mendoza is the Batasang Pambasa.
• Imhotep is the architect of the Pyramid at Zoser.
• Aqueducts designed by the Romans were mainly for Water Distribution.
• A Pediment is located above the entablature in a Doric temple.
• A Binangiyan house, similar to the Ifugao house, with a ridge parallel to the front, and is made of narra or pine is known as a Kankanay house.
• San Sebastian Church is not a work of Jose Maria Zaragoza.
• Rameses deified Imhotep.
• Frank L. Wright's Mile High Tower was a plan that never materialized.
• William F. Lamb is the architect of the Empire State Building.
• Louis Skidmore, Nathaniel Owings, and John O. Merrill were the architects of the Sears Tower in 1973.
• There is a photo of Frank Llyod Wright's Fallingwater residence, a example of organic architecture.
• Falling Water's distinctive feature is its overhanging slab.
• An overhanging Slab in Falling Water is a Terrace.

Other Details

• Gothic describes something as barbaric.
• Mies Van der Rohe designed:
  • The German Pavilion in 1929.
  • Along with Philip Johnson, the Seagram Building.
• Alvar Aalto's full name is Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto.
• "Form follows function” was said by Louis Sullivan.
• Concrete left unfinished or roughly finished after pouring and intentionally left exposed visually is known as Beton Brut", pioneered by Auguste Perret.
• "The city must be subject to growth, decay and renewal." was said by Kenzo Tange.
• "Every great architect is necessarily a great poet, He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age" said Frank Lloyd Wright.
• The Queen Ann styles was popularized by Norman Shaw.
• The national shrine of our mother of perpetual help is formally known as Redemptorist Church
• "Architecture is Organic" said Frank Lloyd Wright.
• An architectural style that emerged in Romanesque and Byzantine style at 12th century is Classical.
• A circular arrangement of large stones enclosing a monument or burial mound is known as a Cromlech.

Filipino Architecture

• The UAP (United Architecture of the Philippines) was created/born December 12, 1974.
• The other name for the Minor Basilica of the Holy Child (Cebu City) is Basílica Minore Del Santo Niño De Cebu.
• The first Charter President of UAP in 1975 was Norberto M. Nuke.
• Cesar Concio was the first University Architect of the University of the Philippines, and the architect of several UP Diliman Buildings and the Insular Life Building.
• Gabriel Formosa was the Architect of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipas during 1933.
• Locsin, Leandro is a Filipino architect, artist, and interior designer, known for his use of concrete, floating volume and simplistic design in his various projects.
• Locsin, Leandro was the architect of the Folks Art Theater, Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Philippine Center for International Trade Expo.
• Manosa, Francisco Tronqued is a Filipino architect with the famous dictum, "Architecture must respond to local conditions," and famous for his design of the Coconut Palace in 1978.
• Tomas Mapua was the first registered architect of the Philippines. -Nakpil, Juan Felipe De Jesus was the first president of Philippine Architects Society (later renamed Philippine Institute of Architects – PIA).
• Arellano, Juan Marcos Y De Guzmán finished construction of the Manila Central Post Office in 1926.
• The oldest stone church in Manila dating back to 1571 is the San Agustin Church.
• The oldest stone church in the Philippines, located in Bohol and built by the Jesuits, is the Loboc Church.
• San Sebastian Church is the first all-steel church in the Philippines and in Asia, and the second in the world.
• The seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Manila, the Manila Cathedral, is presently the 6th cathedral to rise on the site since 1581.
• Pablo Antonio was the architect of the Quiapo Church before it's restoration in 1988.
• Formosa, Gabriel was the architect of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
• Leandro Locsin is the Architect of the Folks Art Theater.
• The Coconut Palace by Francisco Manosa was built in 1978.
• Nakpil, Juan Felipe De Jesus founded the Philippine College of Design in 1941.
• "Architecture must create buildings which are conceived as a total artistic expression" - Alvar Alto.
• First President of PIA (Philippine Institute of Architects) was Perez, Dolly Quimbo.
• The SM Megamall Mandaluyong and Harrison Plaza Shopping Center was designed by Toledo, Antonio M.
• Gabriel Formosa designed Bangko Sentral ng Pilipas in 1933.
• "Beton Brut" architectural style was promoted during the 1920's by Le Corbusier.
• The current UAP president is none of the above.
• “Architecture is Modern”, wrote Otto Wagner.
• The Miag-ao is a church which has a façade characteristic with Filipino folk art in the form of stylized coconut tree, St. Christopher carrying the child Jesus.
• Panay, Capiz is the church that first built by the Augustinian Fr. Miguel Murguia and has an unusually large bell which was made from approximately 70 sacks of coins donated by the town's people.
• In 1995, Banaue Rice Terraces was included in UNESCO's world heritage list.
• Known today as the Basilica of the Immaculate Concepcion, Its 1st architect was Bishop Domingo Salazar while the architect of the present church is Arch. Fernando Ocampo; Manila Cathedral.

Pritzker Awards

• Philip Johnson was the recipient of the first ever Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1979.
• Zaha Hadid received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011.
• Toyo Ito received the Pritzker Architecture Prize this year.
• I.M. Pei was the 1983 Pritzker awardee.
• Kenzo Tange was awarded the Pritzker Award in 1987.
• Oscar Niemeyer was awarded the Pritzker award in 1988.
• Zaha Hadid was awarded the Pritzker award in 2004.
• Toyo Ito was the current Pritzker award winner of 2013.