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Jorn Utzon

"A building must have a soul that corresponds to the mood you are in; be in tune with what you are doing."

Martino Abelana

"Amorsolo of the South"

Michael Graves

"Any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function"

I.M. Pei

"Architecture can reach a level where it influences people to want to do something more with their lives. That is the challenge that I find most interesting."

Santiago Calatrava

"Architecture combines all the arts into one."

Luis Barragan

"Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."

Norman Foster

"Architecture is an expression of values."

Daniel Libeskind

"Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder."

Philip Johnson

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space"

Francisco Manosa

"Architecture must be true to itself, its land, and its people."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Architecture that belonged where you see it standing - and is a grace to the landscape instead of a disgrace."

Antoni Gaudi

"Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments."

Zhongguó

"Central Nation" or as the "Middle Kingdom"

Tadao Ando

"Church of the Light, Osaka"

Jean Nouvel

"Each new situation requires a new architecture."

Adolf Loos

"Form follows Function" "The building should be dumb outside and only reveal wealth inside..."

Oscar Niemeyer

"Form follows feminine/beauty."

Eero Saarinen

"Function influence but does not dictate them"

Hwangnyongsa Temple

"Golden/Yellow Dragon Temple" or "Emperor/Imperial Dragon Temple"; designed to be a place where monks prayed for the welfare of the nation by asking for the divine protection of the Buddha and a means to impress foreign dignitaries.

Moshe Safdie

"Habitat 67, Montreal"

Shigeru Ban

"I believe that the material doesn't need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with strength of the material."

Francisco Manosa

"I design Filipino"

Fumihiko Maki

"I do not want to put my thoughts only on the level of drawings and models. I am a fairly pragmatic sort of practitioner and I want to express these thoughts in real buildings."

Zaha Hadid

"I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning , that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to from a new kind of landscape. To flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples."

Alejandro Aravena

"If there's any power in design, that's the power of synthesis. The more complex the problem, the more need for simplicity."

Tadao Ando

"In all my works, light is an important controlling factor."

Shigeru Ban

"Invisible Structure" - combination of Western and Eastern Building forms and methods - he is not interested in the newest materials and techniques, but rather the expression of the concept behind his building - the idea of a "universal floor" to allow continuity between all rooms in a house

Jean Nouvel

"It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out."

Mies van der Rohe

"Less is more", and "God is in the details"

Frei Otto

"My architecture is the architecture of survival."

Frei Otto

"My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society."

Jorn Utzon

"On the edge of the possible."

Adolf Loos

"Ornament is a crime and all ornamentation must be rejected"

MAGUINDANAO

"People of the flood plain" - inhabit the broad Pulangi River valley and delta which occasionally flood.

Molave

"Queen of Philippine Woods" which was impervious to insects, and so hard that it didn‟t even float in water.

Oscar Niemeyer

"Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard, or inflexible lines created by man... What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love."

SAMA/SAMAL

"Sama" is a derivative of the word "Samasama" meaning togetherness - described as a cohesive and peace loving people.

Frank Gehry

"Start with the simple block to see where that goes. Most of our buildings are made of faceless glass. Only for economies and not for humanities."

Leandro Locsin

"The architecture of my country is a synthesis of our society"

Moshe Safdie

"The design of the buildings should contribute to it's community"

Walter Gropius

"The final goal of all artistic activity is architecture"

RCR Arquitectes Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta

"The landscape, the trees, the sky - those are the things we like to relate to."

Eero Saarinen

"The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence"

Ken Yeang

"We have to build in harmony with the natural world. Our goal must be not simply to slow the present rate of environmental impairment, but to eliminate it entirely."

Richard Meier

"White is the most wonderful color because within it you can see all the colors of the rainbow. The whiteness of white is never just white; It is almost always transformed by light and that which is changing; the sky, the clouds, the sun and the moon."

Luis Barragan

"emotional architecture" "any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake"

Mies van der Rohe

"everything is open, nothing is concealed"

The IFUGAO

"ipugo" - earth people or mortals or humans, as distinguished from spirits and deities.

Rem Koolhaas

"the client is chaos" "the integration of notion of cheapness to create sublime conditions"

Walter Gropius

"to build is to create events"

1.5% - 3% of PCC

(Construction Management Services) Services of architect as Cm can be compensated by a RPF of

Offering Chapel

(Parts of a Pyramid)

20% of the fee

(SAS Manner of Payment) Upon completion of project

50% of the fee

(SAS Manner of Payment) Upon submission of final design

30% of the fee

(SAS Manner of Payment) Upon submission of preliminary design

20% - 30%

(SAS RPF) If land is rugged with steep terrain the fee shall increase

50,000 php / hectare

(SAS) RPF per hectare

Organicism

(acct. to Frank Lloyd Wright) a building should complement its environment so as to create a single, unified space that appears to "grow naturally" out of the ground

Award Fee Provision

(for CM compensations)The construction manager has the opportunity to obtain an award fee of specified max size if the measured cost related values meet or exceed the specified target values

An example showing *linear elements* providing support for an overhead plane. The sculpted female figures stand as columnar supports for the entablature.

*Caryatid* Porch, (The Erechtheion)

Frank Lloyd Wright

- Defined organic architecture. His works are always involved with nature. - his style is Prairie school [organic architecture]

I.M. Pei

- He believes that form follows intention (which incorporates function). - He also rejects the Internationalist vision of architecture as future vs. past, and instead sees his role as creating a bridge between the present and the past.

Fumihiko Maki

- He calls himself a modernist. His style is a mixture of modern architecture and Japanese traditional architecture. - the materials he uses in his structures are metal, glass, and concrete

Daniel Libeskind

- He is renowned for his ability to evoke cultural memory in buildings - He aims to create architecture that is resonant, unique and sustainable

Zoomorphic

- New Animal Architecture - is a late 20th and early 21st century literal and abstract representations of animal forms

Santiago Calatrava

- Organicism and Neo-futurism are his main styles - Finds inspiration in the human body and in nature.

Emilio Ambasz

- an early proponent of 'green' architecture - his trademark style is a combination of buildings and gardens; "green over grey"

Structuralism

- consist of cell-like honeycomb shapes - intersecting planes, cubed grids - densely clustered spaces with connecting courtyrds

Modern Architecture

- exploration of new materials (man-made/factory-made) - simplification of forms

Bauhaus

- flat roofs - smooth facades - cubic shapes - colors are white, gray, beige, or black - steel-frame with glass curtain walls

Deconstructivism

- fragmentation - no visual logic - unrelated, disharmonious abstract forms

International Style

- geometric, monolith skyscrapers - flat roof - glass curtain wall - no ornamentation - stone, steel, glass construction material

Constructivism

- glass and steel - machine-made building parts - technological details such as antennae, signs and projections screens - abstract geometric shapes - sense of movement

Tadao Ando

- he's a minimalist - his design follows the beton brut principle - "smooth-as-silk" concrete - natural light being the controlling factor in all his works

Zaha Hadid

- her architectural style is deconstructivism movement - her work is also describe as an example of parametricism

Richard Meier

- his focal point of style Is mainly the dominant use of the color white that gives that gives the structure a pristine look. - He also utilizes geometric patterns, Rich spatial exposures with emphasis on light on his designs

Jean Nouvel

- his personal architectural style is having no signature style - His work is always specific to the site, program, its people and the whole context. (he's Professor X/Lex Luthor look a like)

Oscar Niemeyer

- his style is having the lightness of the curved forms - uses reinforced concrete very often

Helmut Jahn

- his style was generally post modern - designing extravagant buildings that combined historical and contextual references with high-tech engineering solutions

Norman Foster

- his styles are Modernist and high-tech architecture - his architectural design communicates a city's past and present character - green architecture

Luis Barragan

- his works have been describe as "mystical" as well as serene - was a master of color, light, and space

Minimalism

- is reductive design - only the most essential elements are provided - emphasis is on the outline/frame of structure - interior walls are eliminated

Ken Yeang

- known for ecological architecture; - Bioclimatic architecture with distinctive green aesthetic

Minimalism

- open floor plan - lighting is used to dramatize lines and planes - negative spaces around the structure are part of the design

Functionalism

- ornaments are reduced to bare essentials - it must be inexpensive, durable and beautiful

Brutalism

- precast concrete slabs - rough, unfinished surfaces - exposed steel beams - massive, sculptural

Metabolism

- prefabrication, expansion and contraction based on need - attachable /detachable substructure -replaceable units (cells or pods) -sustainability

Modern Architecture

- rejection of traditional styles - reduction of elements

Formalism

- relationship of parts to whole - emphasizes form - monumental in scale

Desert Modernism

- rocks, trees, and landscape features - expansive glass walls and windows - dramatic rooflines - wide overhangs - steel and plastic combines with wood and stone - open floor plan

Formalism

- shape is the focus of attention - lines and rigid geometric shapes - colonnades and entablatures

High-Tech

- steel, aluminum and glass - brightly colored braces, girders, and beams - prefabricated parts -utilities system exposed on the exterior - universal interior spaces

Post Modernism

- symbolism to make a statement or simply to delight the viewer - colors

Organicism

- use of natural colors - reveal the nature of materials - open up spaces - provide a place for natural foliage

Group B: Residentials, Hotels, Apartments

-multiple dwelling units including boarding/lodging houses, hotels, apartment buildings, row houses, convents, monasteries etc. more than 10 persons each

The annual temperature of Baguio comparable with those in the temperate climate.

18.3°C

Arcadio De Guzman Arellano

1st Filipino employed in 1901 by Gov. Taft as consulting architect.

Carlos A. Barretto

1st Filipino with academic title

THE MALOLOS CONSTITUTION

1st important Filipino document produced by the people's representatives.

Antonio Maňalac Toledo

1st professor at the Mapua Institute ofTechnology

12-storey Picache Building (CHERRY PIE PICACHE)

1st skyscraper in the Philippines.

Cesar Concio‟s Insular Life Building

1stoffice building to surpass the old 30-meterheight restriction

Hinduism and Buddhism

2 Major religions of Nepal

Sikhara and Pagoda

2 kinds of Nepalese Temple

Shinto and Buddhism

2 major religious traditions in Japan

size of average car parking slot

2.5x5 = perpendicular/diagonal; 2.15x6= parallel

Excluding Baguio, the mean annual temperature in the Philippines is:

26.6 °C.

Milan Cathedral

2nd largest Gothic cathedral in the world, next to Cathedral of Seville, Spain

1. Transportation was expanded 2. Electricity was effectively harnessed 3. Improvements were made to industrial processes accelerating production

3 Important developments in Industrialization in America

- Primaire Pd. - Secondaire Pd. - Tertiare Pd.

3 Periods of French Gothic (based on the evolution of the window tracery)

Pesavalalu

3 berms or terraces, platform (Parts of a Dagoba)

Geometric Forms, Animals, Plants

3 types of ornamentation of Egyptian architecture

Norman Foster

30 St Mary Axe in London,

Helm Roof

4 gables forming a pyramidal roof with 4 diamond-shaped sides meeting at the apex.

Four animals

4 quarters of the compass

King Hammurabi

6th Babylonian king to write the first code of laws in human history called Hammurabi's Code.

Fondacco dei Turchi

A 12th century mercantile palace on the Grand Canal. It is an example of a high level domestic architecture as the outcome of her prosperous trade with the East.

La Zisa, Palermo

A 3-storey Norman castle; is entirely of Moslem influence as seen in its muqarnas (stalactite or honeycomb moulding).

Peterborough Cathedral

A Benedictine Abbey with Norman interior & timber ceiling

Durham Cathedral

A Benedictine Monastery. The nave is the earliest to incorporate pointed ribs.

Maria Laach Abbey

A Benedictine church built of local lava. The the exterior is a fine grouping of 6 towers, double transepts, & east & west apses.

Ely Cathedral

A Benedictine monastery with Norman nave & transepts.

S. George, Thessalonica, Greece

A Christian church, later a mosque and now a Greek Orthodox church

Cyma Recta

A Greek moulding; anthemion or honeysuckle

Astragal (Bead)

A Greek moulding; bead and reel

Ovolo

A Greek moulding; egg and dart (or egg and tongue)

Torus

A Greek moulding; the guilloche or plait, ornament, or with bundles of leaves tied by bands

Corona

A Greek moulding; usually painted with the fret ornament (also called key pattern)

Cyma Reversa (Ogee)

A Greek moulding; water-leaf tongue

Pseudo-dipteral

A Greek temple that is similar to dipteral but the inner range of columns is omitted

In-antis

A Greek temple with 2-4 columns at the front

Amphi-antis

A Greek temple with 2-4 columns at the front and rear

Dipteral

A Greek temple with a double line of columns surrounding the naos

Pseudo-peripteral

A Greek temple with a flank of columns attached to the naos wall

Prostyle

A Greek temple with a portico of columns at the front

Daibutsuyō

A Japanese religious architectural style which emerged in the late 12th or early 13th century on the basis of contemporary Chinese architecture (Styles of Japanese Buddhist Temple)

Chartres Cathedral

A Latin Rite Catholic cathedral and one of the finest examples of French Gothic. It has the most complete collections of medieval strained glass in the world

Ulm Minister

A Lutheran church. Although sometimes referred to as Ulm Cathedral because of its great size, the church is not a cathedral as it has never been the seat of a bishop

S. Clemente, Rome

A Romanesque but has now been decorated in Baroque style

S. Basil the Blessed Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow

A Russian Orthodox cathedral built by Ivan IV in 1555. It is the most recognizable symbol of Russia

Kakei

A bamboo pipe through which water flows (Element of Japanese Garden)

Mastaba

A broad pit below ground covered with a rectangular flat mound with sides sloping at 75°. It has a shaft descending to the tomb chamber. Heavy stones (portcullises) are dropped through the slots to seal the chamber

Velarium

A canvas awning drawn over to protect the audience from rain or sun

Canephora

A caryatid with a basket on her head, used either as a support or as a freestanding garden ornmanet

Spoliarium

A chamber beneath an arena, where bodies of dead gladiators are dragged and piled

Tholos

A circular temple

Campanille, Pisa

A circular tower, 16m in diameter, rising in 8 storeys of encircling arcades

Notre-Dame-la-Grande

A collegiate church of Roman style situated in Poitiers. Its facade is carved masterpieces universally recognized religious art of this period. There are frequent motifs of Roman art: foliage, bestiary, corbels carved heads of grimacing and fantastic figures. A marquee is elephant faced. Above the portal, has a frieze depicting biblical scenes.

CUL (cultural)

A community to national level of cultural use or occupancy, characterized mainly as a low-rise or medium rise building/ structure for cultural activities, e.g., cultural centers, convention centers, very large office or mixed use/occupancy buildings and the like.

GI (General Institutional)

A community to national level of institutional use or occupancy, characterized mainly as a low rise, medium-rise or high-rise building/structure for educational, training and related activities, e.g., schools and related facilities and the like, or a community to national level of institutional use or occupancy, characterized mainly as a low rise, medium-rise or high-rise building/ structure for medical, government service administrative and related activities, e.g., hospitals and related health care facilities, government offices, military, police and correctional buildings and the like.

Caen

A cream-colored limestone quarried near Caen, France, for use in building & sculpture.

Garbhagriha

A dark and gloomy place that houses the divine deity; literally means 'womb house' (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Cremona Cathedral, Lombardy

A dazzling example of Romanesque architecture. The marble façade has two rows of colonnades, rose windows and a porch surmounted by a shrine.

Atlantes

A decorative column in the figure or half figure of a man

Moat

A deep and wide trench filled with water around the rampart of a fortified castle

Scotia

A deep hollow moulding

S. Giovanni Laterano, Rome

A double-aisled basilica but had lost its original Early Christian character due to alterations

Stadium

A foot racecourse where games were celebrated

Hypostyle Hall

A forest of columns, portraying the illusion of infinity and vastness of space (Parts of an Egyptian Temple)

Precast Concrete

A form of construction, where concrete is cast in a reusable mold or "form" which is then cured in a controlled environment, transported to the construction site and lifted into place

Hagia Sohpia, Istanbul

A former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque and now a museum

Albi Cathedral

A fortress church with a large vault hall, 18m, the widest in France

Lacus

A fountain with a large basin of water.

Gloucester Cathedral

A fusion of Norman Romanesque and Perpendicular Gothic

Puerta Del Sol (Sun Gate), Toledo

A gate in the old city of Toledo

Monolith or Maenhir

A great upright stone

Khajuraho Group of Monuments

A group of Hindu and Jain temples in Madhya Pradesh, India, about 175 kilometres (109 mi) southeast of Jhansi; one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India

Cantabrian Circle

A group of horse archers or mounted javelin throwers would form a single-file rotating circle.

St. Stephen, Vienna

A hall church and has become one of the city's most recognizable symbols. It has been the place of some of Austria's most historic moments, including Woflgang Amadeus Mozart's 1791 Paupers Funeral

Stupa

A hemispherical dome or mound built over a sacred relic, either of Buddha himself or a sanctified monk or a sacred text.

R-3

A high density residential use or occupancy, characterized mainly as a low-rise or medium-rise building/structure for exclusive use as multiple family dwellings with mixed housing types.

Tower of London

A historic monument in the centre of London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames.

Hexicaihua

A kind of Chinese color painting

Tulou, Hakka or Fujian Dwelling

A large enclosed and fortified earth building, circular or rectangular, made out of thick load bearing rammed earth walls, multi-storey and housing several families

Place Stanislas, Nancy

A large pedestrianized square with late Baroque civic buildings.

Megalith

A large stone used to construct a structure either alone or together with other stones, utilizing an interlocking system without the use of mortar or cement

I-1 (Industrial one)

A light industrial use or occupancy, characterized mainly as a low rise but sprawling building/structure for low intensity manufacturing or production activities.

Jugan

A loophole through which guns could be fired ot arrows shot

Inigo Jones

A man with dominating personality and brilliance

Buttress

A masonry projecting from a wall, provided to give additional strength to the same, and also to resist the thrust of the roof or wall, especially when concentrated at any one point.

Leon Cathedral (House of Light)

A masterpiece of the Gothic style dominating the mid-13th century by master architect Enrique

Heidelberg Castle

A mix of Gothic to Renaissance style. Prince Elector Ruprecht III erected the first representative building in the inner courtyard as a regal residence.

El Hogar Filipino Building

A neo-classical and Renaissance building built as a wedding gift for the union of a Zobel daughter and a Peruvian count back in 1914

San Cataldo

A notable example of the Arabian - Norman architecture which flourished in Sicily under the Norman domination of the island. Founded around 1160 by admiral Majone di Bari, in the 18th century the church was used as a post office.

Manueline Style

A peculiarly Portuguese phenomenon was taken from the name of King Manuel I. It is decorative rather than structural in character.

Herm

A pier ending in a head or bust, often a female figure used as a support.

Gymnasium

A place for physical exercises

Valley of the Queens

A place near the Valley of the Kings where wives of Pharaohs were buried in ancient times

UTS (Utilities, transportation and services)

A range of utilitarian/functional uses or occupancies, characterized mainly as a low-rise or mediumrise building/structure for low to high intensity community support functions, e.g., terminals/inter-modals/multimodals and depots

Hindu Temple

A representation of the macrocosm (the universe) as well as the microcosm (the inner space). These temples are built in key geographical points, such as a hill top, near waterfalls, caves and rivers, which makes worship easier - to contemplate to their God

Stick Style

A revival of half-timbered architecture

Corfe Castle, Dorset

A ring and bailey castle built in early Norman times during the era of William the Conqueror.

Great Temple, AbuSimbel

A rock-hewn temple with 4 rock-cut colossal statues of Rameses II, over 20m high

Chogajip

A roof plaited by rice straw of Korea

Cartouche

A rope enclosing a royal name thereby serving as the protector of that name

Caryatid

A sculpted female figure serving as a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head

Rock Shelter

A shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff

Palace of Persepolis

A showcase for the empire, was begun by Darius I, mostly executed by Xerxes I and finished by Artaxerxes I about 460 BC

Bodhighara

A shrine enclosing a bodhi tree which consists of two platforms, with the tree on the upper platform roof was neither circular nor square

Cavetto

A simple hollow moulding

Tuscan Order

A simpler version of the Doric, has an unfluted shaft and a simplified base, capital, and entablature.

Collar-braced Roof

A simplified hammer-beam form

Entasis

A slight curvature on the column's profile

Fillet

A small plain face to separate other mouldings

Sekimori-ishi

A small round stone bound with straw rope in the shape of a cross. It indicates to guests that the area beyond it is out of bounds (Element of Japanese Garden)

Pinnacle

A small spire

Caste System

A social group, based partly on occupation which grew up with Hinduism

Ishiotoshi

A special chamber built out over the wall of the castle. Its floor could be opened downwards to drop rocks onto the heads of attackers trying to scale the walls.

Opus Signinum

A special mixture of ground terra cotta and lime used for the lining of water channels, aqueducts and reservoirs.

Salientes

A spouting jet fountain

Masugata

A square embattlement which forced anyone entering the castle to make a right-angled turn before he could pass through the gate

Daeungjeon

A squareshaped three-story building that was built in the middle of the Joseon Dynasty. This is a very rare style of wooden pagoda found in Korea

Tsukubai

A stone basin and ladle used by guests to wash their hands and rinse out their mouths before entering the teahouse (Element of Japanese Garden)

Ishidoro

A stone lantern (Element of Japanese Garden)

Nemes Crown

A stripped head cloth worn almost exclusively by the king in representations like a sphinx of falcon

St. Philbert, Tournus

A structure of the early First Romanesque style & early Gothic styles during the beginning of the 11th cent.

Chrysler Building, Manhattan

A stunning statement of Art Deco style by William Van Alen. It was the tallest building in the world in 1930

Wayō

A style developed in art and architecture in Japan during the Heian period by the esoteric sects Tendai and Shingon on the basis of contemporary Chinese architecture. (Styles of Japanese Buddhist Temple)

Gassho-Zukuri

A style minka have vast roofs that are a large form of the sasu structural system. (Types of Japanese Folk House)

Trompe-l'oeil'

A style of painting with realistic imagery to create a 3D effect and the figures are painted out of the frame. It's a French word meaning "deceive the eye"

Zenshūyō

A style which takes its name from its creator, the Buddhist Zen sect, and which emerged in the late 12th or early 13th century on the basis of contemporary Chinese architecture (Styles of Japanese Buddhist Temple)

Parthenon, Athens

A supreme example of Classical Greece, dedicated to Athena Parthenos

Dougong

A system of brackets inserted between the top of a column and a crossbeam. Unique structural component and one of the most important elements in traditional Chinese architecture.

Tokyō

A system of supporting blocks and brackets supporting the eaves of a Japanese building, usually part of a Buddhist temple or Shinto shrine

Obelisk

A tall 4-sided narrow tapering column terminating in a pyramidion, its most scared part (Parts of an Egyptian Temple)

Rock-cut Tombs

A temple or tomb excavated in native rock without the aid of masonry, or with but little masonry; usually presents an architectural front with dark interior chambers, of which sections are supported by masses of stone left in the form of solid pillars

Hanok

A term used to describe Korean traditional houses

American Colonial Architecture

A term usually applied to colonial buildings constructed in America by English immigrants to the New World

Hahoe Folk Village

A traditional village from the Joseon Dynasty. The 'Ha' is short for river and 'hoe' means to 'turn around, return, come back."

Pendetive

A triangular curved overhanging surface to support a circular dome over a square or polygonal compartment

Heddal Stave Church

A triple nave stave church and is Norway's largest

Hopperstad Stave Church

A triple-nave stave church & one of the oldest still standing

Yundo

A type of compass, is an essential tool for feng shui experts to interpret the Earth's energy

Shikumen

A type of tenement housing unique to Shanghai

Skene

A wall or facade to hide backstage action on the Greek stage for costume changing (Parts of the Greek Theater)

Bay Window

A window of a protruded bay

Drawbridge

A wooden bridge leading to a gateway, capable of being raised or lowered to either accommodate or prevent entry into the castle

Palsangjeon (Hall of Eight Pictures)

A worship hall found on a Korean Buddhist temple complex that contains the "Palsang", the series of painted murals depicting the eight stages in the life of the historic Buddha, Sakyamuni.

Palaestra

A wrestling school. The events that did not require a lot of space, such as boxing and wrestling, were practiced here.

Tutankhamun

A young pharaoh at the age of 9 so his uncle Ay, who was the highest minister, ruled for him while he was a boy

Awarded Project Construction Cost

APCC

Philip Johnson and John Burgee

AT&T Building

United Silla Architecture

Absorbed the culture of the T'ang dynasty in China, and at the same time developed a unique cultural identity. Period of peace and cultural advancement in all fields of the arts

Group J

Accessory (Agricultural and other occupancies)

Francisco Manosa

According to him, Philippine architecture is infusing today's design strategies, materials and technology yet retaining its distinctive design elements

St. Gereon, Cologne

According to the medieval legend, the name patron of St. Gereon was a Roman officer, who died along with 318 legionaires for his faith.

Selecting and implementing the most suitable solution.

Action

A building design approach that addresses the problem of inducing comfort by means of equipment that consume energy.

Active cooling

Kabuki Theater

Actors with painted faces and extravagant costumes perform traditional stories to the accompaniment of chanting and shamisen music

Stellar Vaulting

Addition of lierne ribs produced the star-shaped pattern

Is the most common type of spatial relationship. It allows each space to be clearly defined and to respond, each in its own way, to specific functional or symbolic requirements.

Adjacent spaces

Minoan

Aegean civilization which flourished in Crete under the legendary King Minos Knossos

Mycenaean

Aegean mainland civilization, after one of the great centers, Mycenae

Wedge

Aggressive formation used to 'crack open' enemy lines.

Is vital in passively-cooled environments in hot-humid localities This is particularly critical for most urban areas and lowlands in the Philippines

Air movement

Group E Division 3

Aircraft hangars and open parking garages where no repair work is done except exchange of parts

Hisashi

Aisle like areas that surround moya

Siddharta Gautama

Aka Buddha, founder of Buddhism

Hagia Irene

Aka Hagia Eirene "Holy Peace", sometimes known also as Saint Irene, is an Eastern Orthodox Church located in the outer courtyard of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey

Vardhamana

Aka Mahavira

Meridian Gate

Aka noon gate; parts of the forbidden city

Wide eaves, underside was fitted with latticed vents

Alero

Hutong

Alleyway formed by the courtyard houses

AMBF

Allowable maximum building footprint

Tertiare

Also called "flamboyant", is a florid style of late Gothic & characterized by flame-like window tracery

Perpendicular Gothic

Also called 3rd Pointed or Rectilinear. This style was characterized by strong vertical lines in window tracery and wall paneling

Early English Gothic

Also called Lancet or First Pointed Style. This style was characterized by long, pointed, narrow, lancet windows.

Tudor Gothic

Also called Late Perpendicular. This style was a shift from the pointed, ornate Gothic style to the plainer Renaissance style.

Decorated Gothic

Also called Second Pointed, Geometrical or Curvilinear. This style was characterized by fanciful window tracery.

Italianate Architecture

Also called the Bracketed Style. Characteristics of this style include elaborate eave brackets, segmental windows, and decorative hood moulding.

Bhadgaon

Also known as Bhaktpur "city of devotee". Home of medieval art and architecture; regarded as the oldest city of the valley.

Dharma Dida (Island of Buddhist Doctrine)

Also known as Ceylon

Sta. Maria Dei Miracoli

Also known as the "marble church" within and without

Dura-Europos Church

Also known as the Dura-Europos house church; the earliest identified Christian house church

Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae

Also known as the Tomb of Agamemnon

Taj Mahal (Palace of the Crown)

Also known as the pearl of India represents absolute perfection. It is erected by Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved queen, Arjumand Banu Begum, called Mumtaz Mahal

Opus Mixtum

Alternation of courses of bricks and small squared stones

Renzo Piano

Although he is best known for his "hi-tech" public spaces, according to architecture critic Paul Goldberger, "Unlike most other architectural stars, he has no signature style. Instead, his work is characterized by a genius for balance and context..."

Angles are represented as concentric circular dotted lines that run from the center of the diagram out.

Altitude Lines

Pradakshina Patha

Ambulatory passageway for circumambulation (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Jeffersonian Style

An Americal form of Neo-Classicism or Neo-Palladian based on U.S. president and patriot, Thomas Jefferson

100km

An Architect or duly authorized representative is required to perform services at a locality beyond

Bristol Cathedral

An Augustinian priory. It has a rectangular chapter house with bold interlaced wall arcades.

Benedictine Monastery, Melk

An Austrian Benedictine abbey & one of the world's most famous monastic sites

Salisbury Cathedral

An English Gothic cathedral with with the tallest spire in England. It contains the world's oldest working clock

Space Management Studies

An analysis of the space requirement of the project based on organizational structure and functional set-up pinpoints linkages and interaction of spaces

Necropolis, Cerveteri

An ancient Etruscan burial city

Stave Church

An ancient style of church constructed entirely of wood and unique to Norway

Chevet

An apse having a surrounding ambulatory of which are chapels

Second Empire or Mansard Style

An architectural style so named for the "French" elements in vogue during the era of the Second French Empire

Anapji

An artificial pond in the place located in Gyeongju, the capital of the Silla Kingdom

The Pantheon

An early example of Neoclassicism, with a façade modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a dome

Barrow/ Tumulus

An earthen mound burial

Serdab

An enclosed room containing the statue of the deceased (Parts of a Mastaba)

Tombs, Beni Hasan

An example of a Hillside Tomb with 39 ancient elaborately decorated tombs carved into the limestone cliffs

Valley of the Kings

An example of a corridor tomb. It was the royal necropolis of Ancient Egypt where the kings and powerful nobles were buried

Theater Epidaurus

An impressive open-air theater renowned for its nearly perfect architecture and acoustics.

Monotriglyph

An interval of 1 triglyph

Ditriglyph

An interval of 2 triglyphs

Polytriglyph

An interval of more than 2 triglyphs

Agora

An open place of assembly and a center of social and business life

Corinthian Order

An order invented by Callimachus

Doric Order

An order that has masculine quality, no base and has 20 flutes

Ionic Order

An order that is originated from nautilus shell and ram's horn

Wieskirche, Steinhausen

An oval rococo church, design in the late 1740's by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is the most celebrated Rococo church, but has an exterior as simple as a barn.

Savidug Ijang

Ancient fortifications on a a high promontory giving a strategic view of the sea and surrounding land areas

Sinhala

Ancient name for Sri Lanka/Ceylon in Sanskrit and Sinhalese

Assyria

Ancient name for the northeastern part of modern Iraq

Vedic Religion

Ancient religion of India that was contemporary with the composition of the Vedas and was the precursor of Hinduism

Zhaigong

Another type of gong, where the emperor prepared himself for abstinence before he offers sacrifice at grand ceremonies

Refers to the measurement of the size and proportions of the human body.

Anthropometry

5% of the Consultant's fee

AoR's fee for coordinating and relating the work of the consultant to the work of Aor using time based methods or percentage basis equivalent to

Value Management

Applied in cost management process to minimize the negative effect of simplified operations associated with many cost-reduction programs

Prior to actually passing into the interior of a building, we approach its entrance along a path. This is the first *phase of the circulation system*, during which we are prepared to see, experience, and use the spaces within a building.

Approach

Consultation

Architect gives oral or written advice, attend conferences, make evaluations and appraisals

Design Brief Preparation

Architect states the project terms of reference including concept, objectives, and others.

Pre-Qualification

Architect/s and/or PRC-registered Architectural Firms submit information regarding their qualification and expertise

Group 10

Architects render opinion, advice clarifications or explanation on technical matters pertaining to his profession

Ornamental Pillar

Architectural ornament, often seen on the grounds of palaces, imperial gardens and mausoleums. It is also seen at some crossroads to mark the thoroughfares.

Joseon Architecture

Architectural style followed throughout Korea based on the Aesthetics of Neo-Confucianism: - Practicality - Frugality - Harmony with nature

The art and science of designing and constructing buildings.

Architecture

Hindu Architecture

Architecture in India well known for its intricate carvings and stone work.

Shinto Architecture

Architecture of Japanese Shinto shrines

Korean Architecture

Architecture that: - Create perfect harmony with nature - Reflected the human scale - Create visual elegance in external forms several design skills were contrived - Has variety of decorations and colors - Can be aesthetically characterized by moderate elegance in decoration and humble openness in architectural design

Goryeo Architecture

Architecture was inspired by Buddhism - temples and pagoda

Gargoyles

Are functional waterspouts and are said to scare off evil spirits

Ranma

Are panels found above shoji or fusuma that are designed to let light into rooms (Elements of a Japanese House)

Bridges (Pons)

Are simple, solid & practical in construction & designed to offer a well-calculated resistance to the rush of water

Hall Churches

Are special characteristics of German Gothic, with naves and aisles approximately of the same height without the triforium and clerestory

A land or a climate having little or no rain and is typically too dry or barren to support lush vegetation.

Arid

The conscious use of skill, craft, and creative imagination in the production of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

Art

Style Moderne; marked by geometric motifs, streamlined and curvilinear forms, sharply defined outlines, often bold colors.

Art Deco Style

Style of fine and applied art characterized by fluid, undulating motifs, often derived from natural forms.

Art Nouveau Style

A method or manner of jointing that makes the united parts clear, distinct, and precise in relation to each other.

Articulation

Group I

Assembly Occupant Load 1000 or More

Group H

Assembly other than Group I

Crenellations (Battlements)

At the top of curtain walls. The merlons are upstanding parts of an embattled parapet between 2 crenels. The crenels allow the firing of arrows.

Is a large open space, often several stories high and having a glazed roof and/or large windows.

Atrium

Angles run around the edge of the diagram.

Azimuth Lines

Building Information Model

BIM

Business Process Outsourcing

BPO

Sitangkai

Badjao: build permanent homes on the shore while the group live in the houseboat called sakayan.

The summer capital of the Philippines.

Baguio City

Halige

Bahay Kubo Materials: House post

Kilo

Bahay Kubo Materials: Rafters

Palupo

Bahay Kubo Materials: Ridge Pole

Palatpat

Bahay Kubo Materials: bamboo strips tied on to the rafters with rattan vines as the main supports of the roofing

Patukuran

Bahay Kubo Materials: beam laid over the yawi at right angle, thus completing the perimeter.

Kahab-an

Bahay Kubo Materials: connects the bottom ends of the rafters together

Soleras

Bahay Kubo Materials: floor joist are laid

Gililan

Bahay Kubo Materials: floor sills run around the outermost periphery of the soleras to support the walls

Wall Sidings

Bahay Kubo Materials: kept in place with the help of the rattan lashings, horizontal bamboo studs clamp the sidings together on both sides

Pawid

Bahay Kubo Materials: nipa shingles made by stripping leaves from the petiole and bending them over a narrow bamboo slats

Sikang

Bahay Kubo Materials: poles which cross the rafters halfway down the slope

Samil

Bahay Kubo Materials: refers to several layers of nipa leaflets that have been combed lengthwise over bamboo slats

sahig

Bahay Kubo Materials: slatted floor. Rattan or bamboo strips tie the different parts to each other.

Papangkol

Bahay Kubo Materials: two panels of vertical-split bamboo are clamped together for the panels to grip each other, keeping the rain from coming in

Tarugo

Bahay Kubo Materials: wooden peg

Bulwagan

Bahay Kubo Parts: Living Room

silong

Bahay Kubo Parts: Lower part of the house used as an enclosure for keeping domesticated animals such as swine and fowl and storage for household implements, goods, crops and is some cases as burial grounds for the dead

Dapogan

Bahay Kubo Parts: consists of table, river stones and a shoe-shaped stove (kalan)

Bangahan

Bahay Kubo Parts: later hispanized into a banguerra - pots, dishes and other utensils are kept

Kamalig

Bahay Kubo Parts: separate storehouse on stilts where unhulled rice is kept

Paglutuan or "gilir"

Bahay Kubo Parts: which may sometimes be a separate structure where food is prepared

Silid

Bahay Kubo Parts:keep clothes and personal belongings. (sleeping area)

A state of equilibrium between contrasting, opposing, or interacting elements. Also the pleasing or harmonious arrangement or proportion of parts or elements in a design or composition.

Balance

More ornate than the Renaissance style; deliberate in its attempt to impress, and was lavish of all styles, both in its use of materials and in the effects it achieves.

Baroque Style

Unit Cost Method

Based on cost per square meter of the project

Final Project Construction Cost

Based on cost records that will be submitted to the architect upon the completion of the project

Bay

Basic unit of the house floor space in Chinese Architecture

The concepts and ideas were characterized chiefly by the synthesis of technology, craft, and design aesthetics; emphasizes on functional design.

Bauhaus Style

My dormmates <3

Beautiful Women

Brahman

Belief in a cosmic principle of ultimate reality

Reincarnation

Belief in the transmigration of souls when a person dies, his soul enters the body of a newborn child/new person or even the body of an animal

Refers to the balanced arrangement of similar or equivalent elements on opposite sides of a median axis so that only one plane can divide the whole into essentially identical halves.

Bilateral Symmetry

Nile

Birth of early Egyptian civilization

Judaea

Birthplace of Christianity

Talus/ Glacis

Bold sloping thickness at the foot of walls

"Fay-u" house

Bontoc: dwelling of the wealthy Bontoc. Built directly on the ground.

cha-la-nan

Bontoc: means ground floor

Barrel/ Wagon-Headed/ Tunnel Vault

Borne throughout its length on the two parallel walls of a rectangular plan.

Gong

Bow-shaped brackets

Katyufong

Bpntoc: poor man‟s dwelling

Opus Testaceum

Brick facing with pyramidal ends

Shendao (The Sacred Way)

Broad ways at the entrance of Chinese tombs

Emphasizes the aesthetic use of basic building processes, especially of cast-in-place concrete, with no apparent concern for visual amenity.

Brutalism Style

Mahayana and Theravada

Buddhism's 2 major branches

Gakhwangjeon Hall

Buddhist temple in Gurye, Jeollanam-do, South Korea. It is one of the monastery's two principal halls and overlooks the northwest end of the courtyard. It is an outstanding example of Joseon Dynasty Buddhist architecture and was designated National Treasure 67 in 1962

BHL

Building Height Limit

Kagura-den

Building dedicated to Noh or the sacred kagura dance (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Metal

Building material used for ornaments in Nepal Architecture

Brick

Building material used for structural purposes in Nepal Architecture

Rubble or Cut Stone

Building materials of houses and palaces in Greek Architecture

Group 3

Buildings of Exceptional character and complexity of plan/design requiring comparatively large amounts of research and of engineering and allied architectural design

Group 2

Buildings of moderate complexity of plan/design requiring a moderate amount of research and of engineering and allied architectural design

Group 1

Buildings of the simple utilization and caharacter

S. Francesco, Ravenna

Built by Bishop Neone and was run by the Franciscan friars

Town Hall, Leuven

Built by Brabantine Late Gothic style between 1448 - 1469, is famous for its ornate architecture, crafted in lace-like detail by Mathieu de Layens

Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem

Built by Constantine over the reputed tomb of Christ

St. Apollinaire in Classe, Ravenna

Built by Emperor Justinian

S. Maria Maggiore, Rome

Built by Pope Sixtus III

Baptistry of Constantine, Rome

Built by Sixtus III, was among the oldest of Italian Baptisteries

St. Apollinaire Nuovo, Ravenna

Built by Theodoric the Great

Temple of Horus, Edfu

Built from sandstone blocks, is the most completely preserved of all temple remains

Gyeongbokgung Palace

Built in 1395, also commonly referred to as the Northern Palace because its location is furthest north when compared to the neighboring palaces of Changdeokgung (Eastern Palace) and Gyeongheegung (Western Palace) Palace. It is arguably the most beautiful, and remains the largest of all five palaces

TREE - HOUSES

Built in forked branches of 6.0-18.00 m. trees or atop 4.50 - 6.0 m. high stumps which serves as a foundation

Dromore Caste, Limerick, Ireland

Built in the 2nd half of the 19th century by the 3rd Earl of Limerick and designed by Edward William Goodwin.

Flatland Mountain Castles (Hirayamajiro)

Built on a hill or high plateau in the middle of a lord's domain with residences (Types of Japanese Castle)

Bulguksa (Pulguksa) Temple

Built on a stone platform at the foothill of Mt. Toham near Gyeongju, is the oldest existing temple in Korea. The temple was first founded early in the sixth century and was entirely rebuilt and enlarged in 752

S. Paolo Fuori Le Mura, Rome

Built over the grave of S. Paul and was the largest basilica in Rome until St. Peter's was completed in 1626

Helm Roof

Bulbous termination of a tower

Insulation material acts as thermal mass and resists the transfer of heat. It includes materials such as mineral wool, cellulose fiber, polyester and polystyrene

Bulk insulation

Type of insulation is more effective at preventing loss of cool air from the building and so improves the efficiency of air-conditioning.

Bulk insulation

Ospedale Maggiore, Milan

By Antonio Filarete, was the earlist municipal hospital

Porta Pila, Genoa

By Bartolomeo Bianco, is a gateway for the defensive walls of Verona

S. Andrea, Vercelli

By Cardinal Guala Bicchieri, is closest in spirit and form to the French gothic style

S. Susanna

By Carlo Madema, has a façade with enframed niches

Granada Cathedral

By Diego de Siloe, is one of the grandest renaissance churches in S. Spain.

Pilgrimage Church, Steinhausen

By Dominikus Zimmermann, is the 1st Bavarian Rococo church, light & white in effect, instead of dark and mystical

Iconoclastic Movement

By Emperor Leo III, forbade all representations of human or animal forms in sculptures which affected Byzantine church architecture

Chateau De Maisons

By Francois Mansart, is a prime example of French Baroque

Palais de Fontainebleau

By Gilles Le Breton, depends for its attraction on the courts, fomral gardens, terraces, lakes and radiating vistas. It is one of the largest French royal chateau.

Palazzo Carignano, Turin

By Guarino Guarini, has an undulating facade in brick and terra-cotta

Arc De Triomphe

By Jean Chalgrin, is the 2nd largest triumphal arch in the world

Karlskirche, Vienna

By Johann Bernhard Fischer, is one of the most outstanding baroque churches north of the alps

Palazzo dei Normanni (Royal Palace)

By King Roger houses La Capella Palatina, known for its marvelous & colorful mosaics.

S. Andrea, Mantua

By Leon Bautista Alberti, has a facade that looks like a Roman Triumphal arch

San Sebastiano, Mantua

By Leon Bautista Alberti, was the 1st Renaissance church in a Greek cross plan

Palacio Nacional, Queluz

By Mateo de Oliveira in Rococo style. It is commonly referred to as the Portuguese Versailles.

Palais de Louvre

By Pierre Lescot, is one of the most imposing palaces in Europe

Madeleine Church

By Pierre-Alexander Vignon, was built to the glory of Napoleon's army. It was built in Neo-Classical style and was inspired by the Maison Carree at Nimes, one of the best-preserved of all Roman temples.

King's College Chapel

By Reginald Ely, is one of the finest examples of late Gothic

Longleat House, Wilts

By Robert Smythson, is widely regarded as the best example of high Elizabethan architecture in Britain

Burghley House, Northants

By Sir William Cecil, is the largest and the grandest mansion of the first Elizabethan age

Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire

By Thomas Thorpe, is one of England's greatest Elizabethan mansions

Construction Manager

CM

Conceptual Master Development Plan

CMDP

Cost plus Adjusted Fee

CPAF

Cost plus Incentive Fee

CPIF

Construction Supervision Group

CSG

Latticed openings above interior walls

Calado

Exeter Cathedral

Called a Decorated Gothic Cathedral "par excellence"

Nong

Called by Shanghai local people

Seoul

Capital of South Korea

Byzantium

Capital of the Empire during the rule of Constantine in Early Christian Period

INTRAMUROS

Capital of the Philippines during the Spanish regime

Water Castles (Mizushiro)

Castle that is jut out into a body of water (Types of Japanese Castle)

Tenshu

Castle tower

Le Mans Cathedral

Cathedral of S. Julienne; has notable chevet with 13 chapels of unusual projection

Katawhang lumad

Cebuano term meaning native or indigenous.

Sculptured Memorials

Cenotaphs or monumental blocks in honor of persons buried elsewhere (Class of Tomb)

Station of Brahma

Center of mandala, the first of beings and the engineer of universal order

Acroterion

Center ridge of a Greek temple

Hypocaust

Central floor heating system in a thermae

Is a stable, concentrated composition that consists of a number of secondary spaces grouped around a large, dominant, central space.

Centralized organization

Dagoba

Ceylon counterpart of Indian stupa. This is usually the focal point of an alahana complex and were originally cone shaped mounds called "paddy heaps"

Lady Chapel

Chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary

Megaron

Characteristic domestic unit of Aegean

Forbidden City

Chinese Imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of Qing, built by Emperor Yunglo, Son of Heaven

Pinyin Ta

Chinese name of pagoda

Torana (Gateway)

Circular stone gateways around the 4 axis of the stupa (Parts of a Stupa)

Vatadage/ Wata de ge/ Chethiyagara

Circular structure that encloses a small stupa for protection

Apse

Circular termination of the church (Parts of a Basilican Church)

The passage of persons or things from one place to another or through an area.

Circulation

The stair and ramp penetrate and link the three levels, and heighten the viewer's perception of forms in space and light. The curved form of the entrance foyer reflects the movement of the automobile.

Circulation System

To the Greeks and Romans of classical antiquity, the Orders represented in their proportioning of elements the perfect expression of beauty and harmony. The basic unit of dimension was the diameter of the column

Classical Orders

Derived from the principles of Greek and Roman architecture

Classical Style

These are high, vertically placed windows that are ideally north facing. Can be a good source of diffuse light, and can also be useful in allowing hot air to leave the building.

Clerestory windows

Notre Dame Du Port

Clermont-Ferrand, built in sandstone, is one of the Romanesque churches in Auvergne known as the "greater" churches,

Per Diem, Honorarium plus Reimbursable Expenses

Client's request may require the personal time of the architect

A measure of the average pattern of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological variables in a given region over long periods of time.

Climate

Relies on physical proximity to relate its spaces to one another. It often consists of repetitive, cellular spaces that have similar functions and share a common visual trait such as shape or orientation.

Clustered organization

Coastal Fortifications

Coastal ports were fortified to secure the sea links. (Types of Castles)

Frigidarium

Cold bath

Is the attribute that most clearly distinguishes a form from its environment. It also affects the visualweight of a form.

Color

Pillars of Victory

Column erected to record triumphs

A *linear element* , the cylindrical shaft commemorates the emperor's victory over Germanic tribes north of the Danube.

Column of Marcus Aurelius

Jusimpo

Column-head bracket, brackets are placed only at the head of the columns (Korean Wooden Architecture Element)

Noh Stage, Nara

Combines acting, a chorus and orchestra used by shrines and temples to explain religious concepts to common people

Beaux Arts Style

Combining classical Greek and Roman architectural with Renaissance ideas, Beaux Arts was a favored style for grand public buildings and opulent mansions.

Bent Entrance

Compels the invaders to follow a confined route while exposed to lateral fire hazards of retaliation

Employing a combination of the preceding patterns. To avoid the creation of a disorienting maze, a hierarchical order among the paths and nodes of a building should be established by differentiating their scale, form, length, and placement.

Composite

CDMP

Comprehensive Development Master Plan

Comprehension of the ordered and disordered relationships among a building's elements and systems and responding to the meanings they evoke.

Conceptual

*Invisible* or *imaginary* architecture; represents plans and drawings for buildings and cities that have never been constructed and pure research or speculation.

Conceptual Architecture

All paths of movement are linear in nature. And all npaths have a starting point, from which we are taken through a sequence of spaces to our destination.

Configuration of path

Seowan

Confucian academies in Korea

Chaitya

Congregational hall or temples, where monks and the people meet and interact, also a place of worship

Koth Kerella

Conical spire (Parts of a Dagoba)

Cothay Manor

Considered being the most perfect of small, classic, medieval buildings in England today.

Imperial Forums

Consist of a series of monumental public squares (Types of Forum)

Viharas

Consisted of a central hall with small cells all around in which the monks lived

Order

Consists of an upright column, the base and the capital and the horizontal entablature

Soissons Cathedral

Construction began about 1195, and continued into the late 13th century. The single tower dates from the mid 13th century and is an imitation of those of Notre Dame de Paris

Gal Vihara Rock Temple

Containing the four statues of Buddha; two seated image, one standing image, and one reclining image

Coemeteria or Subterranean Vault

Contains both the columbaria and loculi (Class of Tomb)

Naos

Contains the statue of a god or goddess (Parts of a Greek Temple)

A simple exterior form wraps around a complex interior organization of forms and spaces. Elevating the main floor provides a better view and avoids the humidity of the ground. A garden terrace distributes sunlight to the spaces gathered around it.

Context

These climates have an average temperature above 10 °C (50 °F) in their warmest months, and a coldest month average below −3 °C. These usually occur in the interiors of continents and on their upper east coasts, normally north of 40°N.

Continental Climate (D)

Incentive type contracts

Contracts appropriate for initial stages of the project

Opposition or juxtaposition of dissimilar elements in a work of art to intensify each element's properties and produce a more dynamic expressiveness.

Contrast

Well-placed louvers or windows, at floor level and at the highest point of the room, create ___________________________ which draws air into the building and creates breezes to cool occupants.

Convection air flow

Convey calmness and peace (best for office use). They have a tendency to appear smaller next to a warm color. They often work well as a background color.

Cool colors

Moya

Core of a Japanese building

Reims Cathedral

Coronation church of the French kings and one of the finest Gothic structures ever built. Its vast scale, masterful design and rich sculptural adornment are virtually without equal.

Ro

Corridor wings

Si He Yuan

Courtyard house

Sumo Ring

Covered with Shinto Roof suspended by 22mm. thich cable from ceiling of the large stadium

Kathmandu Valley

Crossroads of ancient civilization of Asia; named after a structure in Durbar Square called "Kaasthamandap" (wood + covered shelter)

a system of streets and blocks laid out in gridiron form. This method was efficient in maximizing space and in the supervision of colonial subjects.

Cuadricula

Harmika

Cube form above the dome, usually painted with a pair of eyes

Aduana/Intendencia

Custom House which serves as a central treasury

Wheel

Cycle of life, death and rebirth/ teaching of Buddha

Samsara

Cycle of rebirth

Hatharas Kotuwa

Cylindrical nech with statues of deities carved on the surface (Parts of a Dagoba)

Detailed Architectural Design Services

DADS

Detailed Architectural and Engineering Design Services

DAEDS

Detailed Master Development Plan

DMDP

Natmandir

Dancing hall (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Start on the eastern side of the graph and run to the western side and represent the path of the sun on one particular day of the year.

Date Lines

Laon Cathedral

Dates from the 12th century and is known for its imposing towers

Cool dry season

December to February

The dry season

December to May

"Neo-modern" or "post-structuralism"; questions traditional assumptions and takes modernist abstraction to an extreme and exaggerates already known motifs.

Deconstruction Style

Michaelangelo

Decorated the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Tōrō

Decorative stone lanterns (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Temple of Mars Ultor, Rome

Dedicated to Mars by Augustus to avenge the death of Caesar

Torcello Cathedral, Venice

Dedicated to Sta. Maria Assunta

Ishtar Gate

Dedicated to the goddess Ishtar with bas-relief of lions in blue glazed tiles

Rampart

Defensive earthen bank surrounding a castle or a fortress

Orb

Defensive formation in the shape of a complete circle which could be taken by a unit which had become detached from the army's main body.

Project Definition Phase

Definition of requirements of the project by the owner

Pailous/ Bailous/ Paifang

Derived from Indian toranas; erected in memory of virtuous people; ceremonial entrances/ archways to temple, tombs or occasionally spanning a street

Theory that simply explains events or phenomena.

Descriptive Theory

Is the creation and organization of formal elements in a work of art.

Design

Design principle is a fundamental and comprehensive concept of visual perception for structuring and aesthetic composition.

Design principle

A purposeful activity aimed at devising a plan for changing an existing situation into a future preferred state.

Design process

Palais du Luxembourg

Designed by Salomon de Brosse, anticipates the formalized, Baroque design that typified later 17th century French Renaissance architecture

Bungalow

Detached, low-rise (single or one-and-a-half stories)

Feasibility Studies

Detailed analysis of the project based on pre-feasibility studies will determine the viability of a proposed development. requires primary data gathering

Comprehensive Development Planning

Detailed study of physical, social, economic and administrative components

Space Planning

Determines adequate size and appropriate configuration and assemblage for a proposed project in consideration of the use, allocation, and interface of spaces for given activities.

Towers

Deterrent to mining and to deflect missiles

International Style

Developed in Europe and the U.S. became the dominant tendency in Western architecture during the middle decades of the 20th century.

Perahera

Devoted to the glory of the Warrior God, Skandha

Spina

Dividing wall at the center of a circus

Lotus

Divinity/man's salvation

Department of Labor and Employment

DoLE

The KANKANAI

Domain includes Western Mountain Province, Northern Benguet and Southeastern Ilocos Sur.

Anda

Dome (Parts of a Stupa)

Simple Dome

Dome and pendetive are parts of the same sphere (Types of Dome)

Sikhara or Shikhara

Dome and steeple (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Compound Dome

Dome constructed separately from the pendative (Types of Dome)

Old House

Domestic architecture was marked by lofty roofs which had more storeys than the walls

Stele Pavilion

Double-eaved pavilion, located about halfway down the spirit road and surrounded by four huabiao, houses the great Shisanling Stele that announces the site.

They exhibit low precipitation, great variability in precipitation from year to year, low relative humidity, high evaporation rates (when water is available), clear skies, and intense solar radiation.

Dry Climate (B)

Karesansui

Dry garden

Caves

Dug in hillsides and were used as shrines or temples by monks.

Takuyaka Shiki

Dwellings elevated used mainly for storehouses used to protect rice, eventually developed into early Shinto shrine

Cave Dwellings

Earliest shelters in the Philippines.

Motte

Earthen conical mound of a castle

___________________ windows should be avoided to minimize radiation with low sun angles.

East-west

Wadang

Eaves tile

Harappa

Elevated citadel

Federal Style or Adam Style

Elliptical and round spaces were introduced during this period and the simple exterior box was often modified by projecting wings. There is lightness and restrained delicacy to Federal architectural components.

Sherpa House

Elongated in shape, two-storey house with a ridge roof

Endless Knot

Emblem of eternity

Peacock

Emblem of immortality and resurrection

Forming a public galleria or private corridor that relates to the spaces it links through entrances in a wall plane.

Enclosed

Skywell

Enclosed courtyard formed from the intersections of closely space buildings and offer small opening to the sky through the roof space from the floor up

Four exterior wall planes define a rectangular volume that contains the program elements and spaces.

Enclosure System

Tai Chi

Encompasses the whole concept of Feng Shui, it shows balance completeness, and it also gives the impression of movement

Entering a building, a room within a building, or a defined field of exterior space, involves the act of penetrating a vertical plane that distinguishes one space from another and separates "here" from "there."

Entrance

Parodos

Entrance to the chorus (Parts of the Greek Theater)

Baldachino

Erected on columns over the altar (Parts of a Basilican Church)

Flatland Castles (Hirajiro)

Erected on plains where surrounding castle towns could be built to serve as administrative centers (Types of Japanese Castle)

Basilican church

Erected over the burial place of the saint to whom the church was dedicated

Rostral Columns

Erected to celebrate naval victories; decorated with prows of ships and figures

Triumphal Arches

Erected to emperors and generals commemorating victorious campaigns

Jainism

Established in the 6th c. BCE by Vardhamana, called Mahavira "the Great Hero" or Jina, the "Victorious One". Based on asceticism and ahimsa, theory and practice of non-violence (non-injury to all living things)

Probable Project Construction Cost

Established on the date of signing of the Service Agreement

Cyrus the Great

Established the Persian Empire as the most powerful state in the world

Mangyans

Ethno-linguistic group inhabiting most of the highland region of Mindoro

Major proponent of Evolutionary Architecture.

Eugene Tsui

Colonial Period

Europeans had a distinct influence in India and their culture, first by trade and by conquest

Simulating, testing, and modifying acceptable alternatives according to specified goals and criteria.

Evaluation

Proto-Baroque

Evident in the works of Michaelangelo & Bernini as not fully developed Baroque. Churches are typified by widde naves and low ceilings crowned by high cupolas (domes). (Development of Renaissance)

Design that grows and develops based on climatic and ecological elements, as well as advances in technology; approached as a living organism as if natural forces had shaped the structure.

Evolutionary Architecture Style

Sukiyaki-Zukuri

Evolved from the shoin and teah house, more simpler and smaller, less formal

Covenant of Christ Tomar

Exemplifies Romanesque, Gothic, Manueline and Renaissance architectural styles. It has been in the World Heritage list of UNESCO since 1983

Shigeru Ban

Expo 2000 Japanese Pavilion

Buildings were treated not only as functional structures but also as sculptural objects

Expressionism Style

Paraskenia

Extensions or projecting wings on either side of the proscenium (Parts of the Greek Theater)

Group 8

Extensive detail such as designs for built in components or elements, counters, architectural interior

Framework Development Plan

FDP

Pre-Colonial Architecture

FOLK Architecture INDIGENOUS Architecture PRIMITIVE Architecture

Final Project Construction Cost

FPCC

Japanese Garden

Faithful representation of nature, impart a sense of simple and unspoiled beauty

Kenzo Tange

Famous for Hiroshima Peace Center and Memorial Park, where he combined Le Corbusier's five points with elements drawing from Japanese traditions

Hereford Cathedral

Famous for its library of chained books and for the 'Mappa Mundi'. a 13th century map of the world

Philip Johnson

Famous work is the Glass House

Vaisyas

Farmers, merchants, lawyers, and doctors. Born from the thighs. Varna color: yellow.

additional fees

Fast track projects require...

Stones

Favoured for temples and tombs during early Egyptian civilization

Time Basis

Fees which are charged on an agreed-to hourly (man-hours) or daily (per diem) or per month rate

Tamagaki

Fence surrounding the honden (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Gaya-jatri

Festival to worship the holy cows

1000

Firewall shall extend above the roof from 400 mm to __________mm.

Emperor Qin Shi Huang

First Chinese emperor

Vasco da Gama

First Portuguese explorer to reach India, open up trade routes from Europe to India, spice trade

Juan Felipe De Jesus Nakpil

First architect named National Artist. Pioneer of modern architecture in the Philippines.

Phalanx

First few ranks of soldiers would project their spears out over the first rank of shields.

Aryans

First invaders came from the northwest settling at Punjab

Medhi

First part in the circular base (Parts of a Stupa)

Cin

First recorded use of the word "China"

PRIMAL TUKLONG

First religious structures were built made of locally available materials and technology

Amalaka

Flattened fluted melon shaped massive stone member crowning the top of sikhara; dome (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Group 9

For alterations, renovations, rehabilitation, retrofit and expansion to existing buildings from 1-5

Colored Glazed

For decorative purposes (Types of Bricks)

Kiln-dried

For facing important buildings (Types of Bricks)

Circus

For horse and chariot-racing

Hippodrome

For horse and chariot-racing

Valley Building

For interment and embalmment (Parts of a Pyramid)

Sun-dried

For ordinary finish (Types of Bricks)

Chantry Chapel

For religious services to whomever the donor directs

Group 6

For repetitive construction of similar buildings

Niche/ Hemicycle

For retaining earth (Types of Roman Buttresses)

Cult Temple

For the worship of the ancient and mysterious gods (Types of Temples)

Mortuary Temple

For the worship of the dead (Parts of a Pyramid)

The formal structure of a work—the manner of arranging and coordinating the elements and parts of a composition so as to produce a coherent image.

Form

The primary identifying *characteristic of a volume*. It is established by shapes and interrelationships of the planes that describe the boundaries of the volume.

Form

Corridors, halls, galleries, stairways, and rooms.

Form of the circulation space

Chi Rho

Formed by superimposing the first two letters of the word "Christ" in Greek. It involves the crucifixion of Jesus as well as symbolizing his status as the Christ.

Cross Vault

Formed of 2 semi-circular vaults of equal span

Ceylon

Former name of Sri Lanka

Kyoto Imperial Palace

Former ruling palace of the Emperor of Japan

Little Hagia Sophia

Formerly the Church of the Saints Sergius and Bacchus, is a former Eastern Orthodox Church dedicated to Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople, converted into a mosque during the Ottoman Empire.

Propylaea

Forms the imposing entrance to the Acropolis

[(An+Cn+Tn) * M]+R

Formula for Multiple of Direct Personnel Expenses

Site Selection and Analysis

Formulation of site criteria, site evaluation and determine most appropriate site for a proposed project

Vesara or Mixed Style

Found between Krishna and Vindhyas, mixed of the two styles, circular in plan, hard to distinguish, although one element that may help is the lower height of Vesara temple, characterized by a beehive shaped tower made up of layer upon layer of architectural elements or ornamentations (Style of Hindu Temple)

Nagara Style (North)

Found between the Vindhyas and Himalayas. This style is typified by the use of a square or cruciform plan. Prasada or vimana rises vertically from its base in a curvilinear form. Characterized by a beehive shaped tower made up of layer upon layer of architectural elements. (Style of Hindu Temple)

Dravidian Style (South)

Found in the temples between the Krishna River and Cape Comorin. Its temple towers are pyramidal, multiplication of storey after storey, with a roof that is vaulted octagonal or domical (Style of Hindu Temple)

Villa de San Miguel (feast of St. Michael).

Foundation of the first Hispanic settlement in Southeast Asia

Chandragupta

Founded and headed the first Indian Empire

Taoism

Founded by Lao Tzu offered a doctrine of universal love as solution to social disorder; main religion of China

Mahavira

Founder of Jainism

Hani Rashid

Founder of an organization called Asymptote Architecture Critics have described Asymptote's architectural style as "futuristic."

Walter Gropius

Founder of the Bauhaus School of Art.

Dangun Wanggeom

Founder of the first Joseon kingdom or Gojoseon

Chōzuya or temizuya

Fountain to cleanse one's hands and face (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Last Judgement

Fresco painting on the altar wall of Sistine Chapel

YAKAN

From the "Dayak origin" mostly found in the Interior of Basilan Island

Ardhamandapa

Front porch or the main entrance of the temple leading to the mandapa (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Pronaos

Front portico (Parts of a Greek Temple)

Repel Cavalry

Front rank formed a tight wall of shields with their pila protruding to form a line of spearheads ahead of the wall.

An approach leads directly to the entrance of a building along a straight, axial path. The visual goal that terminates the approach is clear.

Frontal Approach

Vahalkada

Frontispiece, face the 4 cardinal points, heavily ornamented (Parts of a Dagoba)

Division C-2 Zoning Classification

GI

Group E Division 1

Gasoline filling and service stations, storage garages and boat storage structures where no work is done except exchange of parts, no open flame, welding

Foo Lion

Gate of Heavenly Purity, Imperial Palace; also called "Foo Dogs," these guardian creatures typically flanked the entrances to Chinese palaces and other buildings

Torii Shinto Gate

Gate without doors - entrance to a Shinto shrine precint

Chudamanikya

Gemstone place on top of the kotha (Parts of a Dagoba)

Mandala

Generic name for any plan or chart which symbolically represents the cosmos (magic diagram of the cosmos). An expression of sacred geometry.

Durbar Square

Generic name used to describe plazas opposite old royal palaces in Nepal

Arabesque Pattern

Geometric shapes and pattern

Walter Gropius

German architect who broke form previous design with light, airy, bright buildings of glass and iron

"The passively cooled urban house", a prototype house designed by ________________________in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy.

Geronimo Manahan

An insulating material made from fibers of glass arranged using a binder into a texture similar to wool. The process traps many small pockets of air between the glass, and these small air pockets result in the thermal insulation properties.

Glass wool

Gupta Period

Golden age of India, revival of Hinduism and the beginning of free-standing Hindu temples

Revolutionary style of construction; emerged from Romanesque and Byzantine forms, characterized by a delicate balance of forces, with thrusts directed throughout a rigid structural lattice, features were height and light, achieved through a mixture of skeletal structures and ever increasing windows.

Gothic Style

L' Architecture Ogivale

Gothic style in France

Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva

Greatest Hindu deities

Ashoka

Greatest Mauryan King

Crepidoma

Greek temples rest on a platform composed of 3 or more steps

A grid configuration consists of two sets of parallel paths that intersect at regular intervals and create square or rectangular fields of space.

Grid

Consists of forms and spaces whose positions in space and relationships with one another are regulated by a three-dimensional grid pattern or field.

Grid organization

3%

Group 1 RPF DADS

5%

Group 1 RPF DAEDS

3.6%

Group 2 RPF DADS

6%

Group 2 RPF DAEDS

6% of PCC

Group 4 DADS RPF

10% of PCC

Group 4 DAEDS RPF

Monastic Village

Group of buildings designed for all the occupations of the monks

Palladian Motif

Grouping of arches and smaller free-standing twin columns with square head openings

Frank Gehry

Guggenheim Museum is the masterpiece of ______________. It is the culmination of his craft featuring swirling forms like a village.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Ziggurat of Ur

Had a solid core of mud brick and faced with burnt brickwork. It carried the usual temple at the summit.

Basilica

Hall of justice & commercial exchange. Their central position indicates the importance of law & business in Old Rome.

Haiden

Hall of worship or oratory (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Geunjeongjeon (Throne Hall)

Hall where the king granted audiences to his officials, presided over large official functions and met foreign envoys. Largest and most formal hall in Gyeongbokgung.

Prevailing winds from November to April.

Hanging amihan (northeast),

Prevailing winds from May to October.

Hanging habagat (southwest)

Chateau Gaillard

Has a complex and advanced desgin, and uses early principles of concentric fortification. It was also one of the earliest European castles to use machicolations.

Angouleme Cathedral

Has a long aisle less nave, transepts with lateral chapels and an apsidal choir with four chapels forming a latin cross. The western facade is rich with tiers of arcades divided in five bays by lofty shafts.

Peterborough Cathedral

Has a magnificent facade of a Gothic screen with 3 enormous arches

Spoleto Cathedral

Has a notable external porch & the belfry was added in the 15th and 16th century respectively.

San Zeno Maggiore, Verona

Has a stern simple façade. It has a fine projecting porch and above it is a great wheel window which lights the nave

St. Gille-De-Gard

Has an elaborate sculptured façade & is among the most beautiful of the great Romanesque portals.

Abbey of St. Sernin, Toulose

Has an octagonal tower with a spire, 66 m. high that belongs to the Gothic period.

Stylobate

Has an upward curvature at its center of 2-3/8" on the shorter sides and 4-5/16" on the longer sides.

Worms Cathedral

Has apse ate both ends

Santa Sabina, Rome

Has been altered often but retained its original character

Tudor Rose

Has long been a royal emblem for England

St. Madeleine, Vezelay

Has one of the earliest pointed cross vaults in France.

Amiens Cathedral

Has slightly projecting transepts and sweeping chevet of 7 chapels. It was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritade List in 1981

Basilica di San Nicola, Bari

Has square appearance; seemingly more suited to a castle than to a church & was indeed used several times as castle during its history.

Valencia Cathedral

Has the Catalan version of Gothic. It has a mixture of artistic styles, ranging from the early Romanesque to Renaissance which makes it a jewel of universal architecture

Rouen Cathedral

Has the highest spire in France, erected in 1876. It was the world's tallest building from 1876 to 1880.

Temple-shaped Tombs

Have mortuary chapels with colonnaded portico and sepulchral vault (Class of Tomb)

Antoni Gaudi

He famous work is the Sagrada Familia

Renzo Piano

He is a master of one specific building type. He has designed dozens of museum buildings around the world becoming the most prolific museum designer of our time.

Frei Otto

He is the world's leading authority on lightweight tensile and membrane structures, and has pioneered advances in structural mathematics and civil engineering.

Le Corbusier

He practiced purism, and functionalism.

Eero Saarinen

He was famous for his varying style according to demand of the project; simple, sweeping, arching structural curves. He was also known for his innovative, sculptural forms

Oscar Niemeyer

He's the king of curves "mountains/waves/women = curves"

Gharbaya

Hemispherical dome (Parts of a Dagoba)

The articulation of the importance or significance of a form or space by its size, shape, or placement relative to the other forms and spaces of the organization.

Hierarchy

Mount Fuji

Highest mountain in Japan

Tsukiyama

Hill garden

Upanayana

Hindu initiation ceremony

I.M. Pei

His Famous work is The Louvre Pyramid

Frank Gehry

His concepts are: 1. Village of Forms 2. Piscine Movement/Pattern

Arata Isozaki

His designs in his early years are concept of metabolism movement. Hence Isozaki developed a style which reflected both Japanese traditions and West post-modern and mannerist influences.

Frank Lloyd Wright

His famous work is the Falling Water

Moshe Safdie

His famous work is the Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort

Jorn Utzon

His famous work is the Sydney Opera House

Le Corbusier

His famous work is the Villa Savoye

Philip Johnson

His known for using international style and post modernism as his personal architectural style

Michael Graves

His strategy has been "to internalize the events of the building", identifying particular components of the program that can be given formal emphasis

Alejandro Aravena

His style is based on sustainability and minimalism with the use of: - light - concrete - space saving design

Frank Gehry

His style is labeled as deconstructivist though he doesn't want to be put in only one label. He denies the idea that he is restricted in a single restricted philosophy.

Revivalist Architecture

Historical fever revived other styles of architecture

Delos

Holds the position as a holy sanctuary and cult center in ancient Greece. It was a sacred place with splendid buildings and sanctuaries. It was included in the World's Cultural Heritage, protected by the UNESCO.

Indus Region

Home to the largest of the four ancient urban civilizations

Diazoma

Horizontal walkway between the lower and upper tier of seats (Parts of the Greek Theater)

Cuadra

Horse stable

Chaitya Arch

Horseshoe shape arch that decorates the facade

Caldarium

Hot bath or sauna

Are shown as figure-eight-type lines that intersect the date lines and represent the position of the sun at a specific hour of the day.

Hour Lines/Analemma

Yaodong

House cave, earth shelter dwelling carved out of a hillside or from a sunken courtyard

Mangyan House

House in the Mountainside or hillside of Mindoro

Insula (Apartment Blocks)

Houses for the lower classes Romans

Casa Lonja, Seville

Houses the General Archive of the Indies, a superb collection of books, plans, manuscripts and several million documents bearing on the history and administration of Spain's empire in the America and the Philippines

Group 7

Housing project with several simalar housing units on a single site

Goguryeo Tombs

Huge stone-pile tombs with murals on the inside depicting various scenes from the life of the deceased, but later tombs shifted from realism to symbolism (Stone Tomb Culture of 3 Korean Kingdoms)

In architecture is based on the dimensions and proportions of the human body.

Human Scale

Humidity refers to the moisture content of the atmosphere.

Humidity

Techniques of Feng Shui

I.M. Pei's concept

SINADUMPARAN

IVATAN HOUSE TYPOLOGY: One-storey main house with a partially submerged basement used as storage

JIN-JIN

IVATAN HOUSE TYPOLOGY: Roof is of multi- layered cogon system.

Rakhu

IVATAN HOUSE TYPOLOGY: Two-storey house

Site Utilization and Land-Use Studies

Identification of a site's development potentials through the proper utilization of land

Architectural Programming

Identification of both horizontal and vertical requirements in offering a solution. Space program with charaterizations of the envisioned spaces

Atman

Identity with the individual soul

Bale

Ifugao: dwellings of the more fortunate

Abong

Ifugao: poor man‟s dwelling

Central Terraces

Ifugao: rich man‟s choice house sites

Da Du

Imperial palace established by Genghis Khan

Donjon (Dungeon)

Important feature of a Japanese castle

90% of the Architect's Fee

In case the plans will not be implemented after the contract document phase

60%

In excess of 100km means another __% from PF

Comprehensive Architectural Services

In response to the demands of emerging complex building projects

Cost Record

Includes all payments made to the contractor, sub contractor, cost of materials supplied by the owner and other acquisition for all materials and services.

Shinto, Kami-No-Michi

Indigenous religion which started around 660 BCE. Way of the Gods (Kami) with sun as the most important god

The KALINGA

Inhabits the area in the middle Chico River.

Binuron House

Inhabits the banks of the Apayao River and its tributaries in Northern Luzon.

the ISNEG

Inhabits the banks of the Apayao River and its tributaries in Northern Luzon.

Identifying a problem and its social, economic, and physical context.

Initiation

Keep or Donjon

Inner tower for refuge during a siege

Group D

Insitutional

High Rise Buildings

Inspirations were drawn from aircraft technology, robotics, and cyberspace as demonstrated by the One San Miguel Building, and the PBCom Tower, and the GT International Tower

Controls the rate at which a building loses or gains heat, keeping warmer air in during winter and excluding external heat in summer.

Insulation

Is one of the most effective ways to reduce heat input to a building and can be installed in the roof, ceiling and walls of the building.

Insulation

An interlocking spatial relationship results from the overlapping of two spatial fields and the emergence of a zone of shared space.

Interlocking spaces

Functional architecture devoid of regional characteristics; characterized by simple geometric forms, large untextured, often white surfaces, large areas of glass, and general use of steel or reinforced concrete construction.

International Style

Voluntarily selected gap between people who are drawn to each other. At this close range, vision is distorted and any vocalization is a whisper, moan, or grunt. 0-18 inches (0-450mm).

Intimate Distance

Art Deco

Is a forerunner of Art Nouveau style, but with a more Modernist esthetic. It represents a "graciousness of form" from a simpler time.

Buckingham Palace

Is a symbol and home of the British monarchy. It has 775 rooms. The conversion of the royal house into a palace was by John Nash and continued by Edward Blore. The famous façade was by Aston Webb

Skirmishing Formation

Is a widely-spaced line giving enough room for the soldiers to move.

Rococo or Late Baroque

Is increasingly ornate, florid and playful (Development of Renaissance)

Strasbourgh Cathedral

Is known as one of the most beautiful late Gothic cathedrals in Europe. Today, it is the 6th tallest church in the world.

Fish (Ikhthus)

Is mentioned and given symbolic meaning several times in the Gospels. It is also a symbol for Jesus

Baroque

Is opulent and dramatic with irregular shapes and extravagant ornamentation (Development of Renaissance)

Bourges Cathedral

Is remarkable for the absence of transepts and shortness in proportion to width. It was inscribed in UNESCO World Heritage in 1992

Temple of Olympian Zeus

Is renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the largest cult statues in the ancient world.

Sri Lanka

Island Jewel of the Indian Ocean

Dhammadipa

Island of Buddhist doctrine

Dharmia-Dipa

Island of the Buddhist doctrine

Island of Crete

Island that arose the first great sea-power of the Mediterranean, which flourished a thousand years before the Greek civilization reached its peak

Tokonoma

It is a built-in recessed space in a Japanese style reception room, in which items for artistic appreciation are displayed

Shōji

It is a door, window or room divider consisting of translucent paper over a frame of wood which holds together a lattice of wood or bamboo (Elements of a Japanese House)

Shoin-Zukuri

It is a style of Japanese residential architecture used in the mansions of the military, temple guest halls, and Zen abbot's quarters of the Azuchi-Momoyama (1568-1600) and Edo periods (1600-1868). (Types of Japanese Folk House)

Engawa

It is a typically wooden strip of flooring immediately before windows and storm shutters inside traditional Japanese rooms (Elements of a Japanese House)

Setchūyō

It is an architectural style born in Japan during the Muromachi period from the fusion of elements from three preceding styles, the wayō, the daibutsuyō and zen'yō. It is exemplified by the main hall at Kakurin-ji (Styles of Japanese Buddhist Temple)

Hongsalmun

It is an architecture built as a gate for entering a sacred place in Korea. It literally means „gate with red arrows‟, referring to the set of pointed spikes on its top.

Jain Architecture

It is considered almost an offshoot of Hinduism and Buddhism. It developed their own unique style of architecture that is reflective of their principles of austerity. The main monuments within the architectural repertoire of the Jain style are rock-cut architecture, temples and monoliths.

Sukiya-Zukuri

It is one type of Japanese residential architectural style. Suki means refined, well cultivated taste and delight in elegant pursuits and refers to enjoyment of the exquisitely performed tea ceremony. (Types of Japanese Folk House)

Iljumun

It is the first gate at the entrance to many Korean Buddhist temples. Called the "One-Pillar Gate", because when viewed from the side the gate appears to be supported by a single pillar.

Temple Church, Northampton

It is the largest and best preserved of the remaining round churches in England connected with Knights Templar. It is also the oldest standing building in Northampton.

Genkan

It is the main entrance to a house that has a lower level floor where you remove your shoes. This area is considered extremely dirty. (Elements of a Japanese House)

MANILA CITY HALL

It is where the Mayor of Manila holds office and the chambers of the Manila City Council. It has now become the icon for the city of Manila.

Shinden-Zukuri

It refers to the style of domestic architecture developed for palatial or aristocratic mansions built in Heian-kyō (today's Kyoto) in the Heian period (794-1185), especially in 10th century Japan. (Types of Japanese Folk House)

Appian way

It used to be known as the ―Regina Viarum,‖ the queen of all roads.

San Agustin Church, Paoay (Paoay Church)

It was occupied by the Katipuneros in 1899 and used as an observation post by the Filipino guerillas during WW II

Theater of Dionysus

It was the first stone theatre ever built, cut into the southern cliff face of the Acropolis

Temple of Isis, Philae

It was the last pagan temple to exist in the Mediterranean, dedicated to goddess Isis, wife of Osiris and mother of Horus.

Art Moderne

Its architectural style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements.

The coolest month in the Philippines with 25.5 °C.

January

Wagoya

Japanese carpenters developed advanced joinery techniques and occasionally constructed large buildings without using any nails; traditional frames (Elements of a Japanese House)

Hinoki

Japanese cypress or white cedar

Nippon and Nihon

Japanese names for Japan

Daniel Libeskind

Jewish Museum, Berlin

Tsugite

Joints of Japanese structural elements

The rainy season

June to November

Knowledge Process Outsourcing

KPO

Speyer Cathedral, Germany

Keeps the coffins of 4 kings and 4 emperors

Is a traditional Japanese unit of length, equal to six Japanese feet (shaku)

Ken

Sacrificial Offering

Kind of worshipping activities in the form of showing and offering material objects

Odeion

Kindred type to the theater, where musicians performed

Santiago Calatrava

Kinetic structures - some of his structures are "alive" because of movement

Alejandro Aravena

King of the block: master of minimalist forms

Anchae

Known as Gyusu room; situated deep inside the house so that it is secretive and quiet (Section of Jeonju Hanok Village)

New Art (French, "Art Nouveau ")

Known as judendstil, bandwurmstil or tapeworm style, English style or stile liberty, modernimo, sezession

Mesopotamia

Known as the "Cradle of Civilization"

Villa Capra, Vicenza

Known as the Rotonda is a square building with a central circular hall. It has a work of Andrea Palladio

INTRAMUROS, MANILA

Known as the Walled City or "within the walls"

Jaesil

Korean clan memorial halls; became common in many villages where extended families erected facilities for common veneration of a distant ancestor

Juchutdol

Korean cornerstones upon which the pillars rest

Ondol

Korean floor panel heating system, was found in the architectural remains of early Proto-historic; means "warm stone"

Baekje

Korean kingdom found in 18 BC established friendships with China and Japan

Jongryo

Korean memorial shrines; were established by the government to commemorate exceptional acts of filial piety or devotion

Cauli

Korean name given by merchants of the Middle East, which then came to be spelled Corea and Korea

Gidan

Korean raised platform

Hanji

Korean traditional paper

Third Party Certification

LEED, GREEN, BERDE are

Silla

Land beyond china where gold abounds, written by Arab traders

Wind from land (high pressure) directed towards the sea (low pressure); due to night time cooling.

Land breeze

Daimyo

Landowners who swore allegiance to a shogun

Reducing the extent of paving and other hard surfaces with vegetation.

Landscaping

Use to provide shade without blocking cooling breezes and use planting to reduce ground temperature and minimize reflected heat.

Landscaping

Gassho Style House

Large houses with steeply pitched thatched roof

Dian

Large single building in traditional Chinese architecture and generally referred to as dadian (grand hall).

Mireuksa Temple, Iksan

Largest and earliest stone pagoda shows the transitional features from a wooden pagoda to a stone one

Basilica of Trajan

Largest basilica in Rome, designed by Apollodorus

Esztergom Basilica

Largest church in Hungary and the 3rd largest in Europe

Goguryeo

Largest of the 3 Korean kingdoms, renowned for its mountain fortresses built horizontally and vertically along the slopes

Juan De Guzman Arellano

Last Pensionado (architect ituuu)

Kandy

Last capital of the ancient kings' era of Sri Lanka

Silla

Last of the three Korean kingdoms to develop into a full-fledged kingdom

Arts and Crafts

Late 19th-century movement to revive handicrafts. It represented the beginning of a new appreciation of the decorative arts throughout Europe

1. Pilotis 2. Free Floorplan 3. Free Facade 4. Horizontal Ribbon Window 5. Roof Garden

Le Corbusier's Five-Points of Architecture

Testudo

Legionaries became virtually invulnerable to arrows or objects dropped from defensive walls.

Shimenawa

Lengths of laid rice straw used for ritual purification in the Shinto religion

Moksha

Liberation

Is an architectural element that allows daylight to penetrate deeper into a building, a horizontal light-reflecting overhang which is placed above eye-level and has a high-reflectance upper surface.

Light Shelves

Are used for transporting or distributing natural or artificial light, physical structures used for transmitting or distributing natural or artificial light for the purpose of illumination, and are examples of optical waveguides.

Light tubes

An extended point. Conceptually, a line has length, but no width or depth. It is capable of visually expressing direction, movement, and growth.

Line

A straight path, however, can be the primary organizing element for a series of spaces. In addition, it can be curvilinear or segmented, intersect other paths, have branches, or form a loop.

Linear

Consists essentially of a series of spaces. These spaces can either be directly related to one another or be linked through a separate and distinct linear space.

Linear organization

Spirit Road

Lined with men and animals, leading to the burials.

MARANAOS

Live in settlements of the shores of Lake Lanao, or an the hilly „dry rice areas" near a water source;

the BONTOC

Live in the banks of the Chico River

The IBALOI

Live mostly in the southern part of Benguet

Hyanggyo

Local schools in Korea

Narthex

Located between the atrium and the church, was used by penitents (Parts of a Basilican Church)

GUNU BONG

Located near the banks of Lake Sebu or on a hilly portions

Aisles

Located on both sides of the nave (Parts of a Basilican Church)

Stoa

Long, colonnaded covered walkways used around public places

Padmasana

Lotus position

Window styles allow building users to control how much natural air enters the building.

Louvers and casement

Cancelli

Low screen wall enclosing the choir (Parts of a Basilican Church)

Preferable materials particularly on walls that are directly exposed to the sun.

Low thermal mass material

Maximum R-2

Low-rise multi-level building/ structure of from three (3) up to five (5) storeys in height and for use as multiple family dwellings.

Red Crown

Lower Egypt

Master Development Plan

MDP

Opus Sectile

Made from larger, specially cut pieces, usually of tile or stone.

Marble

Main building material of Greek Architecture

Sanmon

Main gate (Parts of a Japanese Buddhist Temple)

Honden

Main hall, enshrining the kami. On the roof of the haiden and honden are visible chigi (forked roof finials) and katsuogi (short horizontal logs), both common shrine ornamentations (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Daeungjeon (Hall of Great Enlightenment)

Main hall; enshrines the Sakyamuni Buddha and was built in 681 CE. (Parts of Bulguksa Temple)

Concrete

Main material of Roman Architecture

Donhwamun Gate

Main palace gate of Changdeokgung Palace

Palaganan

Mangyan House: (passageway) from the main door is set lower than the platforms

Huabiao

Marble commemorative pillars are set up at the four corners of the stele pavilion, where they symbolize the four quarters of the world.

La Certosa, Pavia

Marble facade by Giovanni Amadeo, is a transitional Gothic-Renaissance style

Hot dry season

March to May

Most uncomfortable uncomfortable month in Philippines when temperature and humidity attain their maximum levels.

March to May,

Gate/ Men

Mark the entrance to the temple grounds. Usually one main gate, and possibly several additional gates, along the temple's main approach (Parts of a Japanese Buddhist Temple)

Himeiji Castle

Masterpiece of wooden construction, the finest surviving example of early 17th-century Japanese castle complex in design and layout, comprising 83 buildings (Types of Japanese Castle)

Tatami Mat

Material used for floor covering in Japanese Architecture

AMVB

Maximum Volume Building

The warmest month in the Philippines with 28.3°C.

May

Comparative

May be conducted by committees representing institutions, corporations or public agencies

Hanging habagat (southwest)

May to October

Kandariya Mahadeva Temple

Meaning "the Great God of the Cave", is the largest and most ornate Hindu temple in the medieval temple group found at Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh, India.

in the Roman style or Roman-like

Meaning of the word Romanesque

Maximum R-3

Medium-rise multi-level building/structure of from six (6) up to twelve (12) storeys in height and for use as multiple family dwellings.

Bouleuterion

Meeting place for the democratically-elected councils. They were either rectangular or semi-circular in plan

A *linear element*, a prehistoric monument consisting of an upright megalith, usually standing alone but sometimes aligned with others.

Menhir

Group D Division 1

Mental hospitals, mental sanitaria, jails, prisons, reformatories, buildings where personal liberties of inmates are similarly restrained

Circle

Metaphor for heaven without beginning or end, signifying timelessness, eternity and perfection

Shogun

Military general, held the real power supported by wealthy landowner

Kotha (Silumina)

Mineret or pinnacle made of metal (Parts of a Dagoba)

Beifung Fu

Ming capital constructed on top of the Mongol City

This means that it will rely on natural ventilation in cooler months, and use energy-efficient air conditioning in hotter months

Mixed-mode

Iraq

Modern day name of Mesopotamia

Le Corbusier developed this proportioning system to order "the dimensions of that which contains and that which is contained."

Modulor

Vihara

Monasteries, centers of preaching and teaching

Is a seasonal shift in the prevailing wind direction, that usually brings with it a different kind of weather.

Monsoon

Group 5

Monumental buildings and other facilities requiring consummate design skill and much precise detailing

Pylon

Monumental gateway (Parts of an Egyptian Temple)

Stambhas or Laths

Monumental pillars standing free without any structural function, with circular or octagonal shafts. On top of this shaft is the Persepolitan bell or the inverted lotus shaped base. Above this is the abacus on top of which rests the crowning sculpture. These three portions were carved out of a single stone.

Prevalent in Spain and Morocco; influences were Mesopotamian brick and stucco techniques and frequent use of horseshoe arch, and Roman columns and capitals.

Moorish Style

Dharma

Moral order, duty and right action

Church of the Holy Sacrifice

More popularly known as the UP Chapel. It is the only structure in the country where the works of four national artists can be found.

A *planar element*, three terraces approached by ramps rise toward the base of the cliffs where the chief sanctuary is cut deep into the rock.

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

Masjid/Maskid

Mosque Types: Holds the Friday noon assembly prayers and observance.

Detailed Architectural and Engineering Design Services

Most common type of contract for architectural design services is the complete architectural and engineering design

Lothal

Most extensively researched Harappan coastal site

FORT SANTIAGO

Most important and oldest fortification built in Manila

Winter Solstice

Most important ceremony, when the emperor prayed for good harvest

Hall of Supreme Harmony

Most important hall in the forbidden city; also called Hall of Golden Chimes

Bhagavadgita

Most important religious text of Hinduism

Burgos Cathedral

Most poetic of all the Spanish Cathedrals

Buddhism and Confucianism

Most prominent religions in Korea

Adyton

Most sacred part of the temple (Parts of a Greek Temple)

SAN AGUSTIN CHURCH, MANILA

Most significant monument to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines - first religious structure built in Luzon, after the Spanish relocated from Cebu in the south.

The Capitol

Most successful civic work of Michaelangelo

Temple of Luxor

Mostly built by menophis III, dedicated to the Theban Triad of Amin, Mut and Khons

Dapo

Multi-bracket, additional brackets between columns (Korean Wooden Architecture Element)

Lou

Multi-storey buildings

Muslim/Moro

Multilingual ethnic group and the largest mainly non-Christian ethnic group in the Philippine.

1.5 - 2.5

Multiplier for Multiple of Direct Personnel Expenses

Seokguram (Sokkuram) Grotto

Named as "The Parthenon of the East," "the most exemplary classical work of the Orient," and "An eternal masterpiece". It was built on an artificial cave and consist of a stone chamber, passageway and round dome. The Statue of Buddha sits beneath the dome and was finished with an external earth covering (Parts of Bulguksa Temple)

Persia

Named before Iran, was once a major empire of superpower proportions

Hecatompedon

Naos that measures 100ft long

IVAtans (KakaIVA)

Nationally acclaimed as the "True Insulares."

Sponsor/Client

Natural or juridical person

Characterized by monumentality, strict use of the orders, and sparing application of ornament.

Neoclassicism Style

A network configuration consists of paths that connect established points in space.

Network

Catacombs

Network of subterranean chambers and galleries used for burial purposes by peoples of the Mediterranean world, especially the early Christians

Confucianism

New code of social conduct and philosophy of life. Produced concepts of the universe and beliefs about the future closely allied with superstition, astrology and necromancy which have controlled the planning of society and cities as well as design of buildings.

Mughal Period

New era of architecture that fully embraced the Islamic and Classic Hindu style to a new style

Columbaria

Niches that receive the ashes of the dead

Ahimsa

Nonviolence and respect for all living things

Glass areas should face _______________ with properly designed overhangs.

North

Choson

North Korea

Yin

North, Winter, feminine principle embodied in earth, phoenix and Empress

To collect early morning sun orient active living areas to the:

Northeast

Nijo Palace

Noted for carved wood, black lacquer, gold decorations, and screen paintings

Hanging amihan (northeast),

November to April

6-8

Number of storeys of an insula

Group D Division 2

Nurseries for full-time care of children under kindergarten age, hospitals, sanitaria, nursing homes with non-ambulatory patients, and similar buildings each accomodating more than 5 persons

Group D Division 3

Nursing homes for ambulatory patients, home for children of kindergarten age or over, each accomodating more than 5 persons: not include bldgs only for private/family group dwelling purposes

A *linear element*, the obelisk, which marked the entrance to the Amon Temple at Luxor, was given by the viceroy of Egypt, Mohamed Ali, to Louis Phillipe and was installed in 1836.

Obelisk of Luxor

Enhances the effect of perspective on the front facade and form of a building.

Oblique Approach

Zen Buddhism

Observe the Buddhist's teachings in everyday life through the arts - poetry, painting, calligraphy, and garden design

Varna

Occupational class

Binayon or Finaryon

Octagonal house

Bhog-Mandir

Offering hall (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Hindi

Official language of India

Royal Abbey of Fontevraud

Often described as the royal necropolis of the 'Angevin Kings and Queens of England„.

Mammisi Temple

Often referred to as a birth house of the gods located within the temple precinct.

Forum Romanum

Oldest & the most important in the city (Types of Forum)

Changu Narayan

Oldest Hindu temple complex in Nepal; located on a hilltop known as Changu ; dedicated to Lord Vishnu

Wooden Pagoda

Oldest all-timber pagoda still standing in China

Geumcheongyo Bridge

Oldest bridge still extant in Seoul, located in Changdeokgung Palace

Trier Cathedral

Oldest in the country & listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1986.

Hinduism

Oldest of the world's major religions. It evolved from the Vedic religion of ancient India.

Great Stupa

Oldest stone structure in India

Foguang Temple

Oldest wooden Chinese temple

Todalji (Great Eastern Temple), Nara

One of Japan's most famous and historically significant temples and a landmark of Nara

Church of the Apostles, Koln

One of a series of 'trefoil' churches in the city. The towers are crowned with the helm roof.

Borgund Stave Church

One of the 28 surviving churches of this type in Norway. It is classified as a triple nave stave church.

Mt. Grace Priory, Yorkshire

One of the best preserved Carthusian Charterhouses

Stokesay Castle

One of the best preserved fortified manor houses

Stokesay Castle, Shropshire

One of the best preserved medieval manor houses in Britain.

Cuneiform Script in Clay Tablets

One of the earliest known forms of written expression.

Cloaca Maxima

One of the earliest sewage systems

Pisa Cathedral

One of the finest of the Romanesque period

Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire

One of the largest Cistercian structures in England.

S. Croce, Florence

One of the largest churches in Europe designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, it contains many monuments to celebrate Italians, hence it was called the Westminster Abbey of Italy

Jethavana Stupa

One of the largest stupa and was once considered the tallest stupa until the spire was destroyed; largest brick structure in the world

Rameses II

One of the longest ruling pharaohs of ancient Egypt for 67 years. He lived for over 80 years with a dozen wives and more than 100 children

Fontana di Trevi

One of the mose famous fountains in the world & the largest Baroque fountain in Rome

Limburg Cathedral

One of the most accomplished buildings of the late Romanesque.

Stonehenge

One of the most famous sites in the world and composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones

Lincoln Cathedral

One of the most important Medieval cathedrals in England and a prominent landmark visible for miles around

Zamora Cathedral

One of the most important examples of Romanesque-Gothic architecture in Spain.

S. Michele, Pavia

One of the most striking examples of Lombard-Romanesque style finished with sandstone.

Siena Cathedral

One of the most stupendous undertakings since the building of Pisa Cathedral

Ruwanweli Maha Stupa

One of the most venerated stupa in Sri Lanka

Notre Dame Cathedral

One of the oldest French Cathedrals was begun by Bishop Maurice de Sully. It was restored and saved from destruction by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, one of France's most famous architects.

Vatican Library

One of the oldest libraries by Domenico Fontana

Cheomseongdae

One of the well known examples of Sillan architecture, said to be the first stone observatory in Asia, astronomical observatory "Star-Gazing Tower"

Bailey

Open court of a castle

Prakaram

Open courtyard (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Atrium

Open forecourt surrounded by arcades (Parts of a Basilican Church)

Forming a colonnaded passageway that becomes a physical extension of the space it passes through.

Open on both sides

Forming a balcony or gallery that provides visual and spatial continuity with the spaces it links.

Open on one side

Tsuridono

Open pavilions

Greek Theaters

Open-air structures, generally hollowed out of the slope of a hillside

- Doric - Ionic - Corinthian

Orders of Greek Architecture

- Tuscan - Composite

Orders of Roman Architecture

Expression of personal freedom; harmony between structure and the environment, integration of individual parts to the whole concept, all forms should express the natural use of materials.

Organic Architecture Style

Concerns the position of the building on the site as well as the arrangement of the rooms within it.

Orientation

The *direction of a form* relative to the ground plane, the compass points, other forms, or to the person viewing the form.

Orientation

North-South

Orientation of Chinese Architecture

East

Orientation of Hindu temples

West

Orientation of main entrance in Romanesque Architecture

MAYNILAD

Originally a large Malayan-Islamic settlement

Churrigueresque Style

Originated from Jose de Churriguera. It is marked by extreme, expressive and florid decorative detailing, normally found above the entrance on the main facade of a building.

Art Deco (French, "art decoratif")

Originated from the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes - rise of Modernistic architecture (Style moderne).

Mission Revival

Originated in Southern California. The style was considered the "California counterpart" to the Georgian-inspired Colonial Revival popular in Northeast.

Papyrus, Lotus, Palm

Ornaments of Egyptian Architecture

SPE (Special)

Other vertical facilities not mentioned under regular uses/occupancies of buildings/structures such as cemeteries, memorial parks and the like

Vedika

Outer railing composed of a framework consisting of vertical posts and cross bar that encircles the stupa (Parts of a Stupa)

Professional consulting architect

PCA

Project Construction Cost

PCC

Professional Fee

PF

Preliminary Master Development Plan

PMDP

Probable Project Construction Cost

PPCC

Professional Regulation Commission

PRC

Ta

Pagoda

Tanch'ong

Painting style in Korean temples and palaces

Gong

Palace

Seraglio

Palace proper with the king's residence, state halls, men's apartments and reception courts (Parts of the Palace of Sargon)

Proscenium

Part between the curtain and the orchestra (Parts of the Greek Theater)

Andron

Part of an ancient Greek house where a it is a room reserved for males to entertain male guests

The integrity of each space is maintained, the configuration of the path is flexible, the mediating spaces can be used to link the path with the spaces.

Pass by Spaces

The path may pass through a space axially, obliquely, or along its edge, in cutting through a space, the path creates patterns of rest and movement within it.

Pass through Spaces

Causeway

Passageway (Parts of a Pyramid)

Design that *works with the environment* to exclude unwanted heat or cold and take advantage of sun and breezes (inducing comfort conditions in the building interiors), therefore *avoiding or minimizing the need for mechanical heating or cooling*.

Passive Design

Designing a building in a way that maximizes natural ventilation will greatly reduce the need for air-conditioning

Passive Ventilation

The use of principles in the tropics results in a building that is comfortable, energy efficient and results in substantial savings in running costs of both cooling and lighting.

Passive cooling

Edges, nodes, and terminations of the path.

Path-space relationships

- Armillary Spheres - Ropes - Corals _ Cross of the Order of Christ

Patterns used in Manueline Style

Wei

Pavilion or house in terraces

Tai No Ya

Pavilion or opposed house

Ting

Pavilions

30% of RPF

Percentage of Conceptual Master Development Plan

20% of RPF

Percentage of Detailed Master Development Plan

30% of RPF

Percentage of Framework Development Plan

20% of RPF

Percentage of Preliminary Master Development Plan

5% of PF

Percentage of acceptance fee

10%

Percentage of the PF given upon completion

50%

Percentage of the PF given upon completion of Contract Document Services

20%

Percentage of the PF given upon completion of Design Development Services

15%

Percentage of the PF given upon completion of Schematic Design Phase

Sensory perception and recognition of the physical elements by experiencing them sequentially in time

Perceptual

Goryeo Period

Period of Korean history wherein referred to the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo

Kharma

Person's misfortune are the result of his or her own misdeeds in a previous life

The sense of body heat is lost. Eyesight begins to focus, and vocalization comes into play. Although only ritualized touch is typical, the other person is still at arm's length, available to be grasped, held, or shoved away. 18 inches to 4 feet (450mm-1.20m)

Personal Distance

The variable and subjective distance at which one person feels comfortable talking to another. Also called *personal distance*.

Personal Space

Upanishads

Philosophical Vedic texts

Chaultri

Pillared halls (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Tailiang

Pillars-and-beams; load of the roof is transferred to the beam then to the pillars

Chuandou

Pillars-and-transverse-tie-beams; pillars are directly supporting the roof, greater number of pillars and the horizontal tie beams are joined directly to the columns to form an interlocking framework

Pablo Sebrero Antonio

Pioneer of Modern Architecture

Mahabodhi Temple

Place where Siddharta Gautama sat under a Bodhi tree for 49 days of meditation

Altar

Place where the priest officiates the mass (Parts of a Basilican Church)

Ambo/ Pulpit

Place where the priest reads the gospel and delivers the homily (Parts of a Basilican Church)

Imperial Vault of Heaven

Place where the tablets of god of heaven are stored

Pinnacle Buttress

Placed on top of a spur buttress to help by their weight drive the oblique thrust more steeply down to earth (Types of Roman Buttresses)

Latin Cross

Plan of Romanesque Architecture

An extended line in a direction other than its intrinsic direction. Conceptually, a plane has length and width, but no depth.

Plane

Sacred Bodhi Tree

Planted in Anuradhapura by Sanghamitta Thera (daughter) considered as one of the oldest trees in the world

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Plants grew on the roof and terraces

It marks a position in space. Conceptually, it has no length, width, or depth, and is therefore static, centralized, and directionless.

Point

Wawel Castle Cathedral, Krakow

Poland's national sanctuary

These climates are characterized by average temperatures below 10 °C in all 12 months of the year. This includes the following subtypes: tundra climate (ET), snow and ice climate (EF), and highland climate (H)

Polar Climate (E)

St. Mark, Venice

Popular for the representation of the incidents from the old and new testaments

Palladian

Popularized by Andrea Palladio, is marked with the round arch flanked by 2 small square-headed openings (Development of Renaissance)

Michael Graves

Portland Building "Rejection to the modernist style"

The *location of a form* relative to its environment or the visual field within which it is seen.

Position

Reaction against International style and Modernism. Encourages use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.

Post-modernism Style

Tradition

Pre-Colonial: dictates general shape or form and structural concepts.

Chance or oido (playing by ear)

Pre-Colonial: enables the builder/designer/craftsman to improvise and make adjustments along the way RELYING ON INTUITION and aesthetic insight.

Baoding

Precious roof crown

Neoclassicism

Preferred sober dignity to the excesses of baroque

Collecting and analyzing relevant information and establishing goals and criteria for an acceptable solution.

Preparation

Theory that prescribes guidelines.

Prescriptive Theory

Dome

Prevailing motif of Byzantine architecture

To encouraged natural ventilation orient the building and windows towards:

Prevailing winds

Tokyo Imperial Palace

Primary residence of the Emperor of Japan

Architect

Prime Professional

Wood

Principal building material of Nepal Architecture

Houses and Palaces

Principal building types of Greek Architecture

Timber

Principal material of China

Mud Brick

Principal of building material for domestic buildings during early Egyptian civilization

Decorated Geometric

Principal of the window with several lights surmounted by a circle

Post and Lintel

Principle construction during early Egyptian civilization

Harem

Private family apartments (Parts of the Palace of Sargon)

Gernrode Abbey (St. Cyriakus)

Probably the earliest instance of a church with an apse at both ends

Pre-Feasibility Studies

Procurement, analysis and use of secondary information gathered for the project to aid the client in earl decision making. initial assessment of a project's soundness

Opus Sectile (cut work)

Produced geometrical patterns

Opus Vermiculatum (small pieces of tiles)

Produced pictorial patterns

Opus Spicatum

Produced the herringbone or chevron pattern

Boss

Projecting ornament that covers the intersection of ribs

Machicolations (Murder Holes)

Projecting wall or parapet allowing floor openings, through which, molten lead, boiling oil or stones are dropped down below

The proper harmonious relation of one part to another or to the whole.

Proportion

Strategic Inland Castles

Protect the coast roads, safeguard mountain passes & provide visual command of the approach routes. (Types of Castles)

Mountain Top Castles (Yamashiro)

Protected by the rough terrain as well as the reluctance of Japanese to attack the habitat of spirits associated with nature (Types of Japanese Castle)

Peasant, Farmers, Skillworkers

Protected by the samurai

Is the study of the symbolic and communicative role of the spatial separation individuals maintain in various social and interpersonal situations, and how the nature and degree of this spatial arrangement relates to environmental and cultural factors.

Proxemics

Feng Shui

Pseudo science - based on the belief that forces exist in every locality which act on all buildings, towns, and cities for good or ill and sites were chosen or adapted accordingly.

This is the zone where we can no longer pick up subtle nuances of meaning from the face or tone of voice. The eye can take in the whole body at a glance. It's the distance of the lecture hall, mass meetings, and interactions with powerful figures until such time as they bid you to come closer. 10 feet to infinity (3 meters and beyond)

Public Distance

Miliang Pingding

Purlin-and-rafter; rows of pillars support purlins, which carry horizontal rafters creating a flat roof, common in Tibet, Mongolia

Siheyuan

Quadrangle, an open space surrounded by buildings connected with one another either directly or through verandas

Cleopatra

Queen of the Nile, was the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt though she was not of Egyptian lineage, being the daughter of Ptolemy XII (Greek)

In the tropics, it is generally recommended to have a minimum of R ________ insulation in naturally ventilated house ceilings, and a minimum of R ________ insulation in ceilings and walls of air conditioned houses.

R 2.5 and 3.5

Division A-1 Zoning Classification

R-1

Division A-2 Zoning Classification

R-2

Division B-1 Zoning Classification

R-3

Registered and Licensed Architect

RLA

Recommended professional Fee

RPF

4% - 6% of gross rental

RPF based on value pricing in post construction services

15 of PCC

RPF for 203 or specialized architectural services

1% to 1.5% of PCC

RPF for full time supervision services

15% of PCC

RPF for group 8

2% to 5% of PCC

RPF for project manager in comprehensive architectural design services

at least 1000 php/ hour

RPF in Group 10

at least 5000 php/hour

RPF in Group 10 as expert witness

Configuration that has linear paths extending from or terminating at a central, common point.

Radial

The balanced arrangement of similar, radiating elements such that the composition can be divided into similar halves by passing a plane at any angle around a centerpoint or along a central axis.

Radial Symmetry

Space combines elements of both centralized and linear organizations. It consists of a dominant central space from which a number of linear organizations extend in a radial manner.

Radial organization

The most important climatic element in the Philippines.

Rainfall

Bema

Raised platform on the altar (Parts of a Basilican Church)

Toledo Cathedral, Toledo, Spain

Ranked among the greatest Gothic structures in Europe

Epinaos/ Opisthodomos

Rear portico (Parts of a Greek Temple)

Loculi

Recesses for corpses

Opus Quadratum

Rectangular and square blocks of stones in regular ashlar courses

Shrine

Rectangular anteroom lined with large stone slabs carved with the figures of the protectors of Buddhism on each side of the walls and at the entrance passageway to the main chamber (Parts of Bulguksa Temple)

Assessing how well an implemented solution in use satisfies the specified goals and criteria.

Reevaluation

Sarangchae

Referred to a Seonbi room; where the men dwell (Section of Jeonju Hanok Village)

Lamb (Good Shepherd)

Refers to Jesus' role as a sacrifice atoning for the sins of man in Christian theology

PUD (Planned Unit Development)

Refers to land development or redevelopment schemes for a new or built-up project site wherein said project site must have a Comprehensive Development Master Plan (CDMP) or its acceptable equivalent, i.e., a unitary development plan/site plan that permits flexibility in planning/urban design, building/structure siting, complementarity of building types and land uses, usable open spaces for general public use services and business activities and the preservation of significant natural land features if feasible, whereby said CDMP must be duly approved by the LGU concerned.

Romanticism

Refers to the 19th-century revival imitation styles, Neo-Gothicism and Neo-Renaissance, which used the ideas of the older Gothic and Renaissance style

Garan

Refers to the 7 halls comprising the buddhist temple complex - pagoda, main hall (Kondo/Butsuden), lecture hall (Kodo), bell tower, repository for sutras (kyozo), dormitory and dining hall

Are thin films of metal or metal oxide that are applied to standard glass.

Reflective coatings

Insulation mainly resists heat flow due to its high reflectivity and low ability to re-radiate heat and is more effective when installed with an air layer next to the shiny surface.

Reflective insulation

Type of insulation installed under roof sheeting is highly effective as it does not trap heat inside the building

Reflective insulation

Battle of Styles

Refusal of architects to accept new ideas in contrast to the development of building design during the industrial revolution

Augustan Age

Regarded as a Golden Age

Monastery

Regarded as cradle of Sinhalese Buddhism

Mindori Style

Regular Korean houses that were built without the use of brackets

If the diagonals of two rectangles are either parallel or perpendicular to each other, they indicate that the two rectangles have similar proportions. These diagonals, as well as lines that indicate the common alignment of elements, are called:

Regulating Lines

Georgian

Reigns of Anne, George I, II, III and IV

Buddhism

Religion and philosophy founded in NE India in the 5th cent. BCE based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama. It takes as its goal the escape from suffering and the cycle of rebirth and the attainment of nirvana, and it emphasizes meditation and the observance of moral precepts.

Gwanghwamun Gate

Remarkably, the most representative edifices of the Joseon Dynasty, Gyeonghoeru Pavilion and Hyangwonjeong Pond, have remained relatively intact

Developed during the rebirth of classical art and learning in Europe; characterized by the use of classical orders, round arches, and symmetrical proportions.

Renaissance Style

The architects of the Renaissance, believing that their buildings had to belong to a higher order, returned to the Greek mathematical system of proportions.

Renaissance Theories

Moslem and Christian

Reniassance in Spain was heir to 2 civilizations

The act or process of repeating formal elements or motifs in a design.

Repetition

Feather of Ma'at

Represents justice, truth, morality and balance

Sun Disk

Represents light, warmth and growth

Yin-Yang

Represents the ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. Opposing qualities in a phenomenon, bound together as parts of a mutual whole; dynamic equilibrium

Mainz Cathedral

Represents the high point of Romanesque cathedral architecture in Germany.

Monumental Tombs

Resemble Etruscan tumuli with a conical crown of earth (Class of Tomb)

TIBOLI, T'BOLI

Reside in the high elevation of the mountain ranges of South Cotobato and Sultan Kudarat Provinces, south of Mindanao

Palacio del Gobernador

Residence and office of the governor general

Group 4

Residences, small apartment houses and townhouses

Group A

Residential Dwellings

Ambalama

Rest house for travelers

Movement characterized by a patterned repetition or alternation of formal elements or motifs in the same or a modified form.

Rhythm

A type of insulation that is made from actual rocks and minerals. This type of insulation is commonly used in building construction, industrial plants, and in automotive applications due to its excellent ability to block sound and heat.

Rock wool

Dromos

Rock-cut or chamber tomb is cut within the slope of a hillside and approached by a passageway which is open to the sky

Final phase of the Baroque; characterized by a profuse, semi-abstract ornamentation; associated with lightness, swirling forms, flowing lines, ornate stucco work, and arabesque ornament.

Rococo Style

Domus (Private House)

Roman home of the wealthy and the middle class

Thermae

Roman public bath

Emerged from Roman and Byzantine elements; characterized by massive articulated wall structures, arches and powerful vaults.

Romanesque Style

Kinimpal

Roof Types: half bamboos in convex/concave design were laid over each other

Tinalob

Roof Types: two layers of bamboo

It also reduces heat radiated from the ceiling cavity towards the inner parts of the building

Roof Ventilation

Antefixae

Roof eave termination of a Greek temple

Dormer Window

Roof window

Sukiwatadono

Roofed bridges

Wu

Rooms along roofed corridors

Corbel Table

Row of corbels

Basic R-3

Rowhouse building/structure of from one (1) storey up to three (3) storeys in height and with each unit for separate use as single-family dwellings

Hatshepsut

Ruled herself as the first woman pharaoh after the death of her husband Thutmose II. She ruled with her nephew Thutmose III who was too young to be the heir.

Darius I

Ruled the Persian Empire from 522-486 B.C. He developed infrastructure projects, the largest being the building of the new capital of Persepolis.

Specialist COnsultant

SC

Pre-design Services

SPP 201

Regular Design Services

SPP 202

Specialized Architectural Services

SPP 203

Construction Management Services

SPP 204 B

Full time supervision services

SPP 204A

Post Construction Services

SPP 205

Comprehensive Architectural Services

SPP 206

Statement of the Probable Project Construction Cost

SPPCC

Temenos

Sacred Enclosure

Golden Temple of Dambulla

Sacred pilgrimage site for 22 centuries. The cave monastery comprises of five sanctuaries with impressive Buddhist mural paintings and 157 statues and is the largest and best-preserved cave-temple complex in Sri Lanka.

Nirvana

Salvation

Vimana

Sanctuary as a whole and consists of Sikhara and Garbhagriha (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Refers to how we perceive or judge the size of something in relation to something else. In dealing with the issue of scale, therefore, we are always comparing one thing to another.

Scale

A branch of knowledge dealing with a body of facts or truths obtained by direct observation, experimental investigation, and methodical study, systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws.

Science

Iconostas

Screen of pictures

Veda (knowledge)

Scripture with a collection of hymns composed between 1500 and 900 B.C.E.

Pendant

Sculpted ornament or elongated boss terminating the fan vaulting

Gopuram

Sculptured gateway or watch tower gateways (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Wind from the sea (high pressure) directed towards the land (low pressure); due to daytime heating.

Sea breeze

BADJAO

Sea gypsies of the south Also called Samal Laus (Sea Sama)

Cavea

Seating area (Parts of the Greek Theater)

Nave

Seating area for the worshippers (Parts of a Basilican Church)

York Minister

Second largest Gothic cathedral of Northern Europe

Orchestra

Semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in ancient Greek theaters (Parts of the Greek Theater)

Prytaneion

Senate house for the city council

Detailed Architectural Design Services

Separate contracts for architectural and engineering design services

Baptisteries

Separated buildings used only for the sacrament of baptism during Easter, Pentecost and Epiphany

Matouqiang (Horse Head Wall)

Serves as fire deterrent from drifting embers

Chimera or grotesque figure

Serves only an ornamental function

Khan

Service chamber (Parts of the Palace of Sargon)

Changdeokgung Palace

Set within a large park in Jongno-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the "Five Grand Palaces" built by the kings of the Joseon Dynasty. It is the most favored palace of many Joseon princes and retained many elements dating from the Three Kingdoms of Korea period that were not incorporated in the more contemporary Gyeongbokgung.

vertical penetrations

Shall mean stairs, fire escapes, shafts and the like and their enclosing walls and their enclosed areas.

The *characteristic outline or surface* configuration of a particular form.

Shape

Torii

Shinto gate (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Lierne Ribs

Short intermediate ribs

Flanking

Side attack

Transcept

Side projections of the church (Parts of a Basilican Church)

Plateria

Silverwork

Stone Circle

Similar to dolmen, but circular layout

Katsura Palace

Simple and elegant and its merging of outdoor and indoor spaces

Ikgong

Simplified variation of the bracket styles, featuring a bird bead-like protrusion as its main decorative element (Korean Wooden Architecture Element)

Basic R-2

Single-attached or duplex building/ structure of from one (1) storey up to three (3) storeys in height and with each unit for separate use as single-family dwellings.

Pilgrim Forts

Sited to secure the routes from coastal ports to Jerusalem. It has a thin curtain wall with rectangular corner towers, a large fosse or ditch & an outer earth rampart. (Types of Castles)

1. Respect for Function 2. Structural Integrity 3. Awareness of Our Time 4. Integration with our Environment 5. Expression of Meaning 6. Unity of Design

Six Pillars of Architecture by Eero Saarinen

The physical dimensions of length, width, and depth of a form. While these dimensions determine the proportions of a form, its scale is determined by its size relative to other forms in its context.

Size

The size of something compared to a reference standard or to the size of something else.

Size

can provide good quality light to work spaces that are away from windows. But they need to be shaded and glazed to prevent heat transfer.

Skylights

Fleche

Slender spire rising from a roof

Pyramid of Chephren (Khafre)

Slightly smaller than the great Pyramid of Cheops and guarded by the Sphinx believed to bear the face of King Chephren

Sessha/ Massha

Small auxiliary shrines (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Balneum

Small private baths in palaces and houses

Opus Incertum

Small rough stones with pyramidal ends set irregularly in mortar

Stupa

Small stone tower built to enshrine the sarira or cremated ashes of eminent monks (Korean Architecture)

Baekje Tombs

Smaller than Goguryeo, use of brick tombs (Stone Tomb Culture of 3 Korean Kingdoms)

This is the zone of impersonal transaction. We now have to rely solely on what we can see and hear. By the middle of the range, the eye can focus on an entire face. When the distance is more than eight feet, it's OK to ignore another's presence and it's easy to disengage from a conversation. 4 to 10 feet (1.20m - 3.00m)

Social Distance

Tend to keep people apart and discourage conversations.

Sociofugal Space

Spaces which tend to bring people together.

Sociopetal Space

Shading devices shield windows and other glazed areas from direct sunlight in order to reduce glare and excessive solar heat gain in warm weather.

Solar shading

Primaire Pd.

Sometimes called "lancettes" & distinguished by pointed arches and geomteric traceried windows

Secondaire Pd.

Sometimes called "rayonnant" & distinguished by circular windows with wheel tracery

Main Hall/ Hondo

Sometimes called Golden Hall. Building that contains Buddhist statues (Parts of a Japanese Buddhist Temple)

Gothic Architecture

Sometimes called the architecture of light

MANUNGGUL JAR

Soul boat burial jars

Plant trees in:

South

Han-Guk

South Korea

Yang

South, Summer, masculine principle imaged in the sky (heaven), dragon and Emperor

BAHAY/BALAI

Southeast Asian type of domestic architecture

Is the three-dimensional field in which objects and events occur and have relative position and direction, especially a portion of that field set apart in a given instance or for a particular purpose.

Space

Site Development Plan

Space Planning, architectural layouting and utitlization of spaces within and surrounding a specific building in relation with the existing natural and/or built environments have to be well-coordinated

Jian

Space between columns

In this type of spatial relationship, the larger, enveloping space serves as a three-dimensional field for the smaller space contained within it.

Space within a space

Teahouses/ Chashitsu

Spaces designed to be used for tea ceremony (chanoye) gatherings; usually small, simple wooden buildings, located in the gardens or grounds of private homes and/or temples

Two spaces that are separated by distance can be linked or related to each other by a third, intermediate, space.

Spaces linked by a common space

Cebu, Sebu or Sugbo.

Spanish colony was first established in

The three-dimensional integration of program elements and spaces accommodates the multiple functions and relationships of a house.

Spatial System

Temple Oval, Khafaje

Special sanctity was attached to the temple by digging down to virgin soil before its construction. The dug area was filled with clean sand to assure the purity of the foundation.

A spiral configuration is a single, continuous path that originates from a central point, revolves around it, and becomes increasingly distant from it.

Spiral

Prolongs the sequence of the approach and emphasizes the three-dimensional form of a building as we move around its perimeter.

Spiral Approach

Hundred School of Thought

Spiritual movements including Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism and Mohism being formed

Cuadricula (Grid Pattern)

Square or rectangular blocks on parallel and perpendicular streets crossing one another,

Opus Reticulatum

Square stones set diagonally, forming a net-like pattern

Palace of Sargon, Khorsabad

Square-planned with a defensive parameter and covered nearly one square mile. It was built by Sargon II of Assyria

Kiri Vihara

Sri Lanka's best preserved dagoba

Uses the principle of convection to induce air flow.

Stack Ventilation

Sopana

Staircases going to the terrace (Parts of a Stupa)

Carceres

Stalls that held the contestants' chariots and horses

San Miniato al Monte, Florence

Stands atop one of the highest points in the city & is one of the most beautiful churches in the city.

Industrial Revolution

Started in England and spread throughout Europe and America. It is a change from an agrarian, handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture

Tobi-ishi

Stepping stones (Element of Japanese Garden)

Lotus Mandapa

Stone lotus stalks

Group G

Storage and Hazardous

Group G Division 1

Storage and handling of hazardous and highly flammable material

Pagoda/ Butto

Store remains of the Buddha such as a tooth, usually in form of a representation (Parts of a Japanese Buddhist Temple)

Ge

Storied Pavilion

Amado

Storm shutters that are used to completely seal a home or apartment for security, privacy and safety (Elements of a Japanese House)

A grid of columns support horizontal beams and slabs. The cantilever acknowledges the direction of approach along the longitudinal axis.

Structural System

Forensic Investigation

Study, research and give solutions to any discovered/emerging/evolving defects and failures

Chorten

Stupa-like monument, receptacle of offerings

A particular or distinctive form of artistic expression characteristic of a person, people, or period.

Style

Cut stone (sillar)

Such construction were referred to as de silleria, de canteria or de cal y canto (lime and cut stone)

Per diem or Hourly Basis

Suited to engagements involving intemittent personal services

Villa (Country House)

Summer house of the wealthy Romans

Audencia

Superior Court and also housed the jail.

Sir Christopher Wren

Supreme figure of the 2nd phase of the Stuart period; a scholar, mathematician and astronomer

Great Court

Surrounded by columns (Parts of an Egyptian Temple)

Square Shape

Symbol of earth, signifying the four directions which bind and define it

Purple

Symbol of joy and happiness and refers to the North Star (the abode of the Celestial Emperor).

Dove

Symbol of peace and unity

Cow

Symbol of wealth

Tiger

Symbolizes divine power and strength

Pheonix

Symbolizes effluence or good fortune

Ankh

Symbolizes life, health & strength

Scepter

Symbolizes power, dominion and control

Eye of Horus

Symbolizes protection and royal power

Dragons

Symbolizes reborn from its own ashes symbolizes continuity and divinity.

Scarab

Symbolizes resurrection and rebirth

Uraeus/ Cobra

Symbolizes royal protection and the falcon is for divine kingship. They also represent the unification of Lower Egypt (cobra) and Upper Egypt (Falcon)

Crook and Flail

Symbols of royalty, kingship, majesty and dominion. The crook is a scepter symbolizing government.

The exact correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane, or about a center or axis.

Symmetry

Discovering constraints and opportunities, and hypothesizing possible alternative solutions.

Synthesis

Japanese Occupation Architecture

Systematic attempt by the Empire of Japan to destroy native Korean architecture and replace it with Japanese architecture

Pyramidal Tombs

Taken from Egyptian ideas (Class of Tomb)

Imperial City

Takes a square form, each side is nine in length and encircled by city walls on all sides, three gates, nine vertical and nine streets crisscross the inside city.

Chaniwa

Tea garden

Bunaraku Stage

Telling stories with puppets and music. Raised platform is called Yuka

In Europe this includes areas from coastal Norway south to southern France. In Asia, this includes areas from South Korea, to east- China from Beijing southward, to northern Japan

Temperate Climate (C)

Mandapa

Temple Hall, pillared hall for the assembly of the devotees (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Ziggurat

Temple is perched atop a platform

Cina

Term for porcelain or ceramic ware originally made in China. Derived from the Sanskrit word which refers to "yellow-colored" barbarian trade from the north

The location of the space establishes the path, this path-space relationhip is used to approach and enter functionally or symbolically important spaces.

Terminate in a Space

ToR

Terms of Reference

Tai

Terrace

The visual and especially tactile quality given to a surface by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of the parts. Texture also determines the degree to which the surfaces of a form reflect or absorb incident light.

Texture

TGFA

The Allowable Maximum Total Gross Floor Area

Can be defined as the ratio between two sections of a line, or the two dimensions of a plane figure, in which the lesser of the two is to the greater as the greater is to the sum of both.

The Golden Section

Rock-cut Architecture

The Jains in south India are known for building a number of monoliths, or huge statues carved out of a single rock, of their deities. Most of these monoliths depict the Jain saint by the name of Gommateshwara also known as Bahubali.

One of the most widely-used climate classification systems. The system is based on the concept that native vegetation is the best expression of climate. Thus, climate zone boundaries have been selected with vegetation distribution in mind.

The Koppen System

Han-geul

The Korean alphabet, is the prime element of 'signs' within the pavilion

Forum

The agora counterpart in Greek is a central open space used as a meeting place, market or political demonstrations.

Sikhism

The all-pervading spirit - the concept of "God"

Percentage based on PCC

The amount of the project is related to the size and the type of the building

Sandō

The approach to the shrine (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Interview

The architect explains his methodology in translating the plan/design requirements of the proposed project

NEGOTIATION

The architect explains to the client the scope of services and the architect's fee as prescribed under the Architect's Guidelines

60%

The architectural design services shall then constitute __% of the corresponding stated PF for DAEDS for the project

Medieval Period

The arrival of the Turks ushered in styles from Persia, Arabia and Central Asia

Fresco Painting

The art of painting on fresh, moist plaster with pigments dissolved in water.

Bent Pyramid of Snefru, Dashur

The bent pyramid is a unique example of early pyramid development. The lower part rises at 55° inclination and the top section is shallower at 43°

Acropolis, Athens

The best known acropolis in the world

Maison Carree, Nimes

The best preserved Roman temple

St. Peter's Basilica

The central church of Roman Catholicism, stands on the site where St. Peter is believed to have been buried

Cella

The central hall in a Sumerian temple where the priests and gods meet

Brahma

The chief god, the omnipresent one who is father of the Brahman Trinity

S. Maria Novella, Florence

The city's principal Dominican church and the first great basilicaa in Florence. It was designed by Fra Sisto and Fra Ristoro. The facade was later designed by Leon Battista Alberti in the renaissance style

Invitation

The client issues an invitation which includes the ToR

Temple of Seti I, Abydos

The close-grained limestone wall relief is the finest in Egypt.

Price Adjustment Provisions

The contract prices is adjusted upward/downward in accordance with prearranged formula

Finial

The decorative upper termination of a spire

Rise

The distance between the ground and the highest point of the arch.

Span

The distance between the two sides of the arch.

Chateau De Balleroy

The earliest surviving work of Francois Mansart, father of classical revival in France

Extrados

The exterior curve line of the arch.

Pradakshina-patha (Circumambulation)

The faithful would use this to circle the stupa to pay homage to the Buddha. Motion was always clockwise, since this kept one's right side (considered better) toward the relics

Abbaye-Aux-Dames, Caen

The façade has two large towers on the sides, each with doors leading to the aisles

San Miguel De Escalada

The finest & largest of the Mozarabic churches. It was founded by the Cordoban refugees.

Exeter Cathedral

The finest surviving example of Decorated Gothic, a form of architecture that flourished in England from 1270 to 1369. It is called "the Decorated cathedral par excellence."

Himeji-Jo

The finest surviving example of early 17th-century Japanese castle architecture. The caste functioned continuously as the center of a feudal domain for almost three centuries, until 1868 when the shogun fell and a new national government was created

S. Augustine's Abbey

The first Benedictine abbey in England

Crocket

The foliage decoration on the raking of a spire

Double Crown

The headdress that represents the kingship of two lands, upper and lower Egypt

Sanctuary

The holiest part and accessible only to the kings and high priests (Parts of an Egyptian Temple)

Grapevine

The idea of the vital union of the believers with Christ and among each other is symbolized by the vine and its branches.

Intrados

The interior curve line of the arch.

Santa Maria Matricolare (Verona Cathedral)

The interior was completely remodeled in the Gothic style in the 15th & 16th cent.

Perpendicular Vaulting

The intricate stellar vaulting led to the type known as the fan, palm or conoidal vaulting

Cologne Cathedral

The largest Gothic church of Northern Europe

Seville Cathedral

The largest Medieval Cathedral in Europe, with the exception of St. Peter's, Rome. It houses the tomb of Christopher Columbus

Windsor Castle

The largest inhabited castle in the world & is the oldest in continuous occupation. The castle's floor area is about 45,000 sqm.

Forum of Trajan

The largest of the forums, built by Apollodorus of Damascus.

Place Dela Concorde

The largest square in Paris.

Pungsu

The living energy of Earth made by wind and water

Winchester Cathedral

The longest Gothic cathedral in Europe

Propylaeum

The monumental gateway to sacred enclosure

Santo Stefano Rotonda, Rome

The most ancient example of central plan church in Rome

Beauvais Cathedral

The most daring achievement of Gothic architecture, having the highest nave in Europe. It has 3 tiers of flying buttresses

Lion Gate, Mycenae

The most famous feature of the Palace, Tiryns

S. Nicholas, Prague

The most important High Baroque building in Prague

Temple of Zeus, Olympia

The most important building in the Altis located at the very center

Great Temple of Amun, Karnak

The most important sanctuary of the cult who worshipped the sun god, Amun-Ra

Pantheon

The most perfectly preserved ancient Roman temple

Temple of Vesta, Rome

The most sacred shrine in the Imperial city and contained the holy fire of Vesta

Monreale Cathedral, Sicily

The most splendid of all the monuments of the Norman Period, built by King William II.

Economic Component

The nation's assets and its management

Royal Palace, Madrid

The official residence of the King of Spain in the city of Madrid and it is only used for State Ceremonies

Thuparama Stupa

The oldest and first stupa built in Sri Lanka; built in the shape of a heap of paddy

Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu)

The oldest and largest (13 acres) of the 3 pyramids in the Giza Necropolis. It is the oldest of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact

Stabian Baths, Pompeii

The oldest bathhouse in Pompeii

Stadium, Olympia

The oldest stadium in Greece

San Martin De Fromista

The only complete example of Spanish "pilgrimage‟ style.

Lichfield Cathedral

The only medieval English cathedral with 3 spires and dedicated to St. Chad and St. Mary

Hoyjord Stave Church

The only stave church built in two phases.

Malacañang Palace

The original structure was built in 1750 as a summer house along the Pasig River.

Cost plus Fixed Fee

The owner will pay the CM a fixed fee plus reimbursement of certain expenses incurred in the performance of basis services

Fixed Price Incentive

The owner will pay the CM a fixed fee which is adjusted according to the difference between the final allowable costs and the target costs

Firm Fixed Price

The owner will pay the construction manager a fixed fee.

Pitha

The plinth or the platform of the temple (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Brahmins

The priestly class, born from the mouth of Brahman, with varna color white

Mortuary Temple of Mentuhetep

The pyramid is a cenotaph with a dummy burial chamber below it. At the rear is a long corridor leading down to Mentuhetep's tomb.

Early English Vaulting

The quadripartite ribbed vault came into general use

Evaluation & Ranking

The selection committee may adopt its own procedure in evaluating the entries and recommending the most capable firm

Verification

The selection committee may visit buildings designed by the architects and check references such as former clients and financial institutions

Shamusho

The shrine's administrative office (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Pyramid of Mykerinos

The smallest and last among the 3 pyramids to be built in the Giza Plateau

Komainu

The so-called "lion dogs", guardians of the shrine (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Metope

The space between triglyphs with or without sculptures

Buddhist Architecture

The structures from this period are often imposing, heavy, dripping with ornament. They are at times so massive that they seem to be sculpted out of living rock.It adheres to highly symbolic design programs representative of religious teaching and the Cosmos. These follow the traditions of the Buddha, the 6th century BC North Indian preacher Siddhartha.

Injeongjeon Hall (National Treasure)

The throne hall of Changdeokgung, it was used for major state affairs including the coronation of a new king and receiving foreign envoys

Silla Tombs

The tomb is dug in an underground pit with a burial chamber built from wood, after which a round pile of small stones was built above it, covered with earth to create a mound just like the tumulus (Stone Tomb Culture of 3 Korean Kingdoms)

Keystone

The top stone of the arch, and the most important one, as without this final stone the arch would fall apart not being able to transpose the forces in a lateral direction.

Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem

The traditional birthplace spot of Jesus

Westminster Abbey Cathedral

The traditional place of coronation and burial site for the British monarchs

Japanese Pit House

The typical Jomon house was pit house that had a main pillar, whose hole was dug the widest and deepest into the ground that was surrounded by other wooden upright supporting posts. (Types of Japanese Folk House)

Decorated Curvilinear

The upper part of the window head might be filled with trefoils, quatrefoils or dagger shapes.

Step Pyramid of Djozer by Imhotep

The world's first large scale monument in stone with no free-standing columns. It is a series of 6 successively smaller mastabas one atop of another and originally clad in polished white limestone

Neo-Modernism

The yearning for an idealized past has created retro-modern or neo-modernism, a term to describe a "new simplicity" as a reaction to the complexity of postmodernism architecture and eclecticism.

St. Kunibert

The youngest Romanesque church in Koln.

Abstract thought or speculation resulting in a system of assumption or principles used in analyzing, explaining, or predicting phenomena, and proposed or followed as a basis of action.

Theory

Is the ability of building materials to absorb, store, and release heat.

Thermal Mass

Is the condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the thermal environment. Maintaining this standard of thermal comfort for occupants of buildings or other enclosures is one of the important goals of HVAC design engineers.

Thermal comfort

LIGHTHOUSES

These structures provided haven to ships that passed through Philippine waters especially during stormy nights.

Batter Walls

These were designed with inward inclinations which are used in temple walls

RCR Arquitectes Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta

They are considered to be modern industrial organicists

Byobu

They are folding screens, often decorated with art that are used to partition rooms for privacy (Elements of a Japanese House)

Fusuma

They are vertical rectangular panels which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors. (Elements of a Japanese House)

Multiple of Direct Personnel Expenses

This cost based method of compensation is applicable only to non-creative work such as accounting, secretarial, research and such.

Empire Style

This is a French-inspired neoclassical style that takes its name from the Empire style under Napoleon's rule

Neoclassical Architecture

This is a style derived from the architecture of Classical Greece and Rome and the architecture of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio

Percentage based on PCC

This method of compensation for architectural services is the most common worldwide

Professional Fee plus Expenses

This method of compensation is frequently used where there is a continuing relationship on a series of projects.

Lump Sum/ Fixed fee

This method of compensation may be used when the scope of services required can be clearly and fully defined at the outset of the project

Salary cost times a multiplier, plus a direct cost or reimbursable expenses

This method of remuneration is best suited for projects which the costs are difficult to pre-determine.

Retainer

This method of remuneration is used when the services of a PCA is expected to be required at intervals over a period of time

Queen Anne Style

This style consisted largely of influences of "Old English". It is colorful, lacy, with fancy ornamental details.

Shingle Style

This style grew out of the earlier Stick and Queen Anne styles in which the entire building was covered with shingles with open porches and irregular roof lines.

Early National Style

This style is also called the "national style" due to popularity

Prairie Style

This style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape.

Folk Victorian Style

This style was characterized by lacy brackets on porch posts, filigreed balustrades, and a third-story cupola

Transitional Gothic

This style was characterized by pointed arches introduced into structures with Romanesque character

Norma Gothic

This style was characterized by semi-circular arched windows

Oriel Window

This window projects from the wall and does not extend to the ground and often supported by brackets or corbels.

Has a tint applied to the glass during manufacture, to reduce the amount of heat transmitted through it.

Tinted glass

Promotional Services

To develop and generate financial support and acceptance from governing agencies or from the general public.

Is a shallow, slightly raised alcove for the display of a kakemono or flower arrangement. As the spiritual center of a traditional Japanese house, and located in its most formal room.

Tokonoma

Kalasha

Top decorative element of amalaka; steeple (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

Harmika

Top pedestal stone fenced with the parasol/ umbrella inside (Parts of a Stupa)

OKIR, OKIL, UKKIL

Torogan Features: Carving usually features the naga or serpent as well as floral and star and bud motifs.

Panolong

Torogan Features: Row of carved projecting beam ends in ornate motifs

Lamin

Torogan Features: lady‟s dormitory which serve as another hideaway for the datu‟s daughter and her manga raga or ladies.

okir

Torogan Features: projecting beam pattern design

Gibon

Torogan Features: special space for the daughter of the datu.

Brahmanism

Towards the beginning of the Christian era, it developed an increasingly pronounced theism and a heroic tradition that reflected the military character of India.

Mohenjo-Daro

Town proper consisting of houses and market places

Bar Tracery

Tracery is composed of thin stone elements rather than thick ones. The glass rather than the stone dominates the window. It gives more delicate,web-like effect

Plate Tracery

Tracery uses thick areas of stone to separate glazed areas. The window may look as if it had been filled in with stone, then small openings cut through for the glass. The stone rather than the glass dominates the window

Ken

Traditional Japanese unit of length

Angojigi

Traditional Korean doors and windows that can open up and outwards or slide along a horizontal axis

Yurt

Traditional dwelling of inner Mongolians

Wood

Traditional structural material of Japan

Is wall system for indirect solar heat gain. It consists of a dark colored wall of high thermal mass facing the sun, with glazing spaced in front to leave a small air space. The glazing traps solar radiation like a small greenhouse.

Trombe Wall

In A climates, the terms "winter" and "summer" have little meaning, but in many locations, annual rhythm is provided by the occurrence of wet and dry seasons.

Tropical Climate (A)

Can be regarded as a type of green building applicable specifically for tropical climates, using design to optimally reduce buildings' energy consumption, particularly the cooling load.

Tropical architecture

Four-centered arch

Tudor arch

Tigris and Euphrates

Twin rivers which gave the name Mesopotamia

Dolmen/ Cromlech

Two or more upright stones supporting a stone or stone slab

The Koppen climate classification scheme for Tropical climates.

Type A

The Koppen climate classification scheme for Dry (arid and semiarid) climates

Type B

The Koppen climate classification scheme for Temperate climates

Type C

The Koppen climate classification scheme for Continental climates

Type D

The Koppen climate classification scheme for Polar and alpine climates

Type E

Two pronounced seasons: dry from November to April and wet during the rest of the year

Type I

No dry season with a pronounced rainfall from November to January.

Type II.

Seasons are not very pronounced, relatively dry from November to April, and wet during the rest of the year.

Type III.

Rainfall is more or less evenly distributed throughout the year.

Type IV

Centralized

Type of plan of Byzantine Architecture

Secular

Types of Clergy: affiliated with a diocese and subject to the bishop

Regular clergy

Types of Clergy: grouped themselves according to provinces per country

A great portion of the rainfall, humidity and cloudiness are due to the influence of:

Typhoons

Is the heat transfer coefficient, which simply means that is a measure of an assembly's capacity to transfer thermal energy across its thickness.

U-value

San Ambrogio, Milan

Underwent several reconstructions after it was damaged by war.

Sudras

Unskilled laborers. Born from the feet of Brahman. Varna color: black.

Harijans (Children of God) or Dalits (Downtrodden)

Untouchables (Caste System)

White Crown

Upper Egypt

A city or metropolitan area that is significantly warmer than its surrounding rural areas due to human activities.

Urban Heat Island

Tudor Vaulting

Use of the four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting

Lecture Hall/ Kodo

Used for meetings and lectures and often also display objects of worship (Parts of a Japanese Buddhist Temple)

Mortuary Temple

Used for the ministrations to deified pharaohs (Types of Temples)

Limestone and Sandstone

Used for threshold, stairs, balusters, engineering works in Chinese Architecture

Inter-columnar Bracket System

Used in building the most important edifice on the premises. (Dongbukgaru in Hwaseong Fortress)

Fleur-de-lis

Used in the Royal Arms of England

Hemispherical Dome

Used over circular structures

Semi-Dome

Used over semi-circular structures

Harappans

Used the same size bricks and standardized weights as were used in other Indus cities such as Mohenjo Daro and Dholavira

Direct Selection

Used when taking a relatively small project

Squinch arches

Used when the crossing of the nave and transept was crowned by an octagonal tower

Spur Buttress

Used where large openings for doors and windows were needed (Types of Roman Buttresses)

Mixed Methods of Compensation

Using more than one method of compensation

Awarded Project Construction Cost

Using the bid of the winning contractor

Detailed Architectural and Engineering Design Services

Usually used when client prefers a single point responsibility for the project design

Opus Alexandrinum

Utilized tiny, geometrically shaped pieces of coloured stone and glass paste that were arranged in intricate geometric patterns dotted with large disks of semiprecious stones.

Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

Valley of the Queens, Deir el-Bahari was built by Senmut

Quadripartite

Vault for a square bay

Sexpartite

Vault for an oblong bay

Ogival System

Vaulting framework of intersecting pointed arch ribs

Operable windows on barandillas

Ventanillas

Xuan

Veranda with windows

Wataridono

Verandas that link the shinden to the tai no ya

Axis Mundi

Vertical and unmoving, established as the stable pivot around which the universe revolves

Antarala

Vestibule or the intermediate chamber (Parts of a Hindu Temple)

The degree of concentration and stability of a form. The visual inertia of a form depends on its geometry as well as its orientation relative to the ground plane, the pull of gravity, and our line of sight.

Visual Inertia

It refers to how small or large something appears to be in relation to its normal size or to the size of other things in its context.

Visual Scale

Cantilevered gallery along the perimeter of the second floor, double layered façade

Volada

A plane extended in a direction other than its *intrinsic direction*. Conceptually, a volume has three dimensions: length, width, and depth.

Volume

Formerets

Wall ribs

Hwaseong (Brilliant Fortress)

Wall surrounding the centre of Suwon, the provincial capital of Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Tepidarium

Warm bath or steam

Exhibit energy and joy (best for personal messages). They have a tendency to appear larger.

Warm colors

Kshatriyas

Warriors and rulers, senators, presidents, majors, born from the chest of Brahman. Varna color: red.

Samurai

Warriors who swore allegiance to the Daimyo or Shogun

Temple of Khons, Karnak

Was a cult temple mostly done by Rameses III.

Chateau De Pierrefonds

Was a defensive military architecture from the Middle Ages by Louis I de Valois

Portcullis

Was a mark of the Beaufort lineage of Henry VII, founder of the Tudor Dynasty

Canterbury Cathedral

Was a mixture of style with the choir reconstructed in the 12th century; nave in the 14th century; cloisters in the early 15th century

Messina Cathedral

Was begun during the time of King Roger. The bell tower holds one of the largest astronomical clocks in the world, built in 1933 by the Ungerer Company of Strasbourg

Durham Cathedral

Was begun in 1093 by Bishop William St. Carileph and completed in 1135 though there have been many additions since

Aix-La-Chapelle, Germany

Was built by Emperor Charlemagne as his tomb. It was the coronation church of the Holy Roman Emperors.

Prague Cathedral, Czech Republic

Was built by Mathias d' Arras and Peter Parler in the Late Gothic style

Ely Cathedral

Was built by William the Conquerer

Palais De Versailles

Was built for Louis XIV by Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin Mansart. The palace was built with irresponsible extravagance.

St. Lorenzo Fuori Le Mura, Rome

Was built over the grave of martyr St. Lawrence

Mammisi Temple, Edfu

Was built to celebrate the divine birth of Horus

Regensburg Cathedral

Was built with cream-colored limestone and a softer green sandstone

Thutmose III

Was called the Napoleon of ancient Egypt because of his military genius and built many structures

Plateresque Style

Was characterized by minuteness of detail and its similarity to silversmith's work. The style is extremely florid and decorative.

Gothic Revival Architecture

Was characterized by strong associational values of religion and nature

Elizabeth Gothic

Was characterized by the use of mullioned windows

La Sainte Chapelle, Paris

Was conceived by Louis IX as a kind of gigantic reliquary for the most precious religious relics in all Christendom - the "true cross" of Christ, the "Crown of Thorns" and other relics connected to the actual passion of Christ

Campo Santo, Pisa

Was constructed to consolidate the remains of people who were once buried throughout the Field of Miracles.

Small Temple, AbuSimbel

Was dedicated to Rameses II's deified queen, Nefertari and the goddess Hathor

Florence Cathedral

Was designed by Arnolfo di Cambio.

Doge's Palace

Was designed perhaps by Filippo Calendario

Composite Order

Was developed combining the volutes of the ionic and the acanthus of the Corinthian.

S. Agnese Fuori Le Mura, Rome

Was founded by Constantine over the grave of S. Agnese

Cefalu Cathedral

Was founded by Count Roger (King Roger II of Italy).

S. Austremoine, Issoire

Was inspired by Notre Dame du Port & also one of the 5 greater churches in Auvergne

Xerxes I

Was known for his massive invasion of Greece and his defeat marked the decline of the empire

Chateau D' Ambiose

Was once home to the French royal court. It was built of French late Gothic Flamboyant Style

City of Nineveh

Was once made capital of the Assyrian empire by Sargon's son, Sennacherib

Babylon

Was the capital of ancient of Babylonia in southern Mesopotamia

Altis, Olympia

Was the center of all religious activities during the Olympics

Delphi

Was the major site for the worship of the god Apollo

Chateau de Blois

Was the residence of several French kings.

Aqueducts

Water channels or water bridges constructed to convey water

Reservoir

Water is used for rituals and also to keep the temple floor clean or even for a ritual bath before entering the holy area.

Weva

Water reservoir

Voussoir Stone

Wedge shaped stone used to build the arch.

Katal Huyuk, Turkey

Were rectangular, single-roomed with mud-plastered walls and floors

Reliquary

Where relics are stored

Anuradhapura

Where the Bhodi tree was planted

Abstinence Hall (Zhaugong)

Where the emperor lives before he presents himself at the rites of Heaven worship

Stele

Where the name of the deceased was inscribed (Parts of a Mastaba)

Group E Division 2

Wholesale and retail stores, office buildings, drinking and dining establishments, <100 occupant load, no highly flammable materials, no bulk handlings

The movement of air through a building is generated by differences in air pressure as well as temperature. The resulting patterns of air flow are affected more by building geometry and orientation than by air speed.

Wind

Are an important way to encourage and direct air flow into a building

Windows

Hypaethral

Windows in a Greek temple that are partly open to the sky

Lean-to

Windshield or one-sided lean to with or without flooring

S. Maria in the Capitol

With a three-apse plan, is the largest of the 12 Romanesque churches in Cologne

Melon-shaped Dome

With convolutions or ribs (Types of Dome)

In 1884, Koppen System was first published by Russian German climatologist:

Wladimir Köppen

Dou

Wooden block

Ema

Wooden plaques bearing prayers or wishes (Parts of the Shinto Complex)

Maru

Wooden-floored central space, originated in the southern province of Korea where the climate is warm

ad catacumbas

Word derivation of catacomb

Saktas

Worship of a Mother Goddess

Vedism

Worship of trees, stones and water

Saivites

Worship the god Siva

Vaishnavites

Worship the god Vishnu

Kenzo Tange

Yoyogi National Gymnasium

Wenshou

Zoomorphic roof ornaments that occupy the roof corners

Basilica de San Antonio Padua

a 7-domed pilgrimage church

S. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

a Dominican church with beautiful brickwork

Carlos Arguelles

a leading proponent of the International Style of architecture in the Philippines in the 1960s.

I-2 (Industrial two)

a medium industrial use, low-rise but sprawling bldg for medium intensity manufacturing

C-3 (Commercial 3 or metropolitan commercial)

a metropolitan level of commercial use, medium to high rise for high to very high intensity commercial/trade

C-2 (Commercial 2 or medium commercial)

a municipal or city level of commercial use or occupancy, medium-rise building for medium to high intensity commercial/trade, service and business activities

C-1 (Commercial one or light commercial)

a neighborhood or community level of commercial use or occupancy, characterized mainly as a low rise building/structure for low intensity commercial/trade, service and business activities, e.g., one to three (1 to 3) storey shopping centers, small offices or mixed-use/occupancy buildings and the like.

PRE [Park structures, recreation and entertainment]

a range of recreational uses or occupancies, low-medium rise

firewall

a reinforced masonry or reinforced concrete separator with the appropriate fire-resistive rating and which shall be positioned between

Bodega

a storage room for keeping old furniture and palay bins

Parametricism

a style within contemporary avant-grade architecture, promoted as a successor to post-modern architecture and modern architecture

building/structure

a three dimensional physical development erected within a lot or property or any combination of all of its 3 different levels (at grade, below grade, above grade)

Dispensa

adjacent room to the kitchen for food storage

Group I Division 1

agricultural structures

Group J-1

agricultural structures: sheds, barns, etc

A (Agricultural)

agriculture-related use

Al (Agro-Industrial)

agro-industrial related use, low-rise

Group G Division 5

aircraft repair hangars

Coconut Palace

also known as Tahanang Pilipino (Filipino Home),

Cost plus Adjusted Fee

also known as cost plus incentive fee

Structuralism

also known as spatial systems architecture, treats the structure of buildings as a system of living cells

The MERALCO Building

also known as the Lopez Building

Insular Ice and Cold Storage Plant

an ice production and storage facility in Manila, Philippines and it was operated by San Miguel Brewery

Group H Division 1

any assembly bldg with stage and <100 occupant load

Group H Division 2

any assembly bldg without stage, >300 occupants

Group H Division 3

any assembly building without stage, <300 occupants

Ventanillas

are placed below the large window sill and often with grilles.

suburbs

arrabales

Aljibe

ater cistern found underneath the azotea

Comprehensive Development Planning

based on the concept of expanded physical planning services to include other activities necessary for the proper handling of the numerous components considered in the formulation, implementation and realization of a Master Development Plan

Value-Based Pricing/Percentage of Gross Rentals

based on the outcome revenue, cost, profitability result of a project engagement or based on a measurable profit on specific revenues by the client

International Style

based on the principle that form follows function

Baño or paliguan

bathroom built separately

Cuarto, Alcoba,

bedroom

BALANGAY

biniday or barangay

Vicar Forane

bishop‟s representative in the province

International Style

bold rectangular form, pure volume complete absence of ornament asymmetric composition, a balance of unlike parts flat roofs plain and uniform plastered wall surfaces clean lines and large windows used the cantilever principle

LEGISLATIVE BUILDING (NATIONAL MUSEUM), Manila

building in Manila originally designed as public library

Group C: Education and Recreation

buildings used for school or daycare purposes, involving assemblage for instruction, education or recreation

bell tower

campanario

Zaguan

carriages and saints‟ floats (andas) are kept

Project Manager

complements the functions of the Architects, Engineers and Contractors

Architectural Research

conduct of primary and secondary researches and assembled facts used as basis for conclusion

Metabolism

considered cities as living things that can change over time

Cost plus Incentive Fee

cost reimbursement type contract with provisions for a fee that is adjusted by "sharing" formulas applied to the difference between the final allowable costs and the target costs

Maginoo (nobles)

datu

SECTION 707: Maximum Height of Buildings

dependent upon character of use and type of construction

BHL (Building Height Limit)

determined after application of development controls (DC); measured from established grade line to topmost portion; may be subject to reqs of Air Transportation Office (ATO)

King Philip II

developed a comprehensive guide comprising of 148 ordinances to aid colonists in locating, building, and populating settlements.

comedor

dining room

Architect-in-charge of construction

directly and professionally responsible and liable for the construction supervision of the project

Group G Division 2

dry cleaning plants using flammable liquids; paint stores with bulk handling

Kota/Kuta or fortress

early Filipino constructed forts in Mindanao, Sulu as well as in Manila and Mindoro against enemy attacks

SECTION 704: Location on Property

eaves not less than 750mm

Modernism

emerging in the early 20th century, it responded to changes in technology and society

Patio

enclosed courtyard open to the sky and adjacent to the zaguan

Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano

famous for Pompidou Centre/Le Pompidou

Herzog and de Meuron

famous for the world's largest steel structure, the Beijing National Stadium

International Style

favored architecture for office buildings and homes for the rich

Biomorphism

finds inspiration from mother nature

Félix Rojas.

first "qualified" Philippine architect

Tomas Bautista Mapua

first Filipino registered architect

Cesar Concio

first in the government examination for architects.

UST Engineering and Architecture Building

first local building to use brise-soliel

Dynamic defense

fleet with fixed periodic vigilance and a single patrol circuit

Monuments

focal points in the plaza.

Static defense

fortification of the principal ports known as Spanish Buttressed Fortification

Biombos

free-standing partitions were used to separate areas.

Timawa and maharlika

freemen

Insulation materials are given an R-value, which rates the material's resistance to heat flow and therefore indicates its effectiveness. The higher the R-value, the ___________ the insulating effect.

greater

Le Corbusier

he described architecture as "the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light".

Jorn Utzon

he relates his design to the environment, as well as the culture of the people who would reside or venture through the space

Felipe Mendoza

he worked for the formulation of a new five-year, ladder-type curriculum for the bachelor‟s course in architecture.

Moshe Safdie

his architectural styles are: - dramatic curves - arrays of geometric patterns - use of windows key placement of open and green spaces he's a self-described modernist

Kenzo Tange

his design is closely associated with the metabolism movement but because of his functionalist ideas, he never belonged to the group

Leandro Locsin

his designs are marked by his distinct use of: - concrete - themes of floating volume - use of native materials - massive supports - the roof emphasized as the dominant form - wide overhanging eaves

Jean Nouvel

his famous work is the Torre Agbar, the structure is intended to recall the shape of a geyser rising into the air.

Santiago Calatrava

his famous work is the Turning Torso

Mies van der Rohe

his styles are: - traditionalism to modernism, - free of ornamentation and excess - emphasizes open space - reductionist approach - can create calmness and openness in the midst of chaotic surroundings

Richard Rogers

his trademark technique that went on to be known as "bowellism", inside-out style

Escolta Street

historic east-west street located in the old downtown district of Binondo in Manila, Philippines.

Group F: Industrial

ice plants, power plants, pumping plants, cold storage, and creameries, factories, workshops, incombustible materials

Chapel of Saint Hubert

in (Chateau d' Amboise) is the burial place of Leonardo da Vinci

Bauhaus

is a German expression meaning house for building; architecture in its most pure form devoid of ornamentation

Desert Modernism

is a regional approach to International Style

Blobitecture

is a type of wavy, curvy design without traditional edges or traditional symmetric form

Constructivism

is combined engineering and technology that flourished in Russia in the 1920's-1930's. it grew out of Russian futurism.

Post Modernism

is combining new ideas with traditional forms

Deconstructivism

is manipulation to disturb and dislocate the structure of a building to attain aesthetic-controlled chaos

High-Tech

is often machine-like, preference for technology and tectonics

International Style

is the Bauhaus in the USA and a symbol of capitalism

Brutalism

is the architecture of raw concrete or Beton Brut

Expressionism

is the external manifestation of the internal function

Functionalism

is the principle that a building is designed based on its purpose (form follows function)

Expressionism

is the representation of forms and shapes from the emotional feelings of the designer

Cavite

it was used as a fortified point for defending the capital

Leandro Locsin

kilala sa raw concrete chorva chorva BIDA BIDA KID

adobe (adobe putoshap)

kind of greyish volcanic tuff found in Manila and surrounding province from Batangas - Tarlac

Thom Mayne

known for his bold and unconventional works which were noted for their set of angular forms, layered exterior walls, incorporation of giant letter and number graphics, and emphasis on natural light.

Physical Component

land use and the changes which occur within the physical environment represented mainly by the MDP

Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo

leader of the big revolt of 1896

Anito

lesser gods

R-1

low density residential zone, single-family, single detached dwellings with usual community ancillary uses on a neighborhood scale such as executive subdivisions and relatively exclusive residential communities which aren't subdivisions

Bricks (Ladrillos)

made of clay formed in wooden molds (hulmahan) and baked in kilns called hornos.

Tracery (calado)

made of multi-layered panels of sliding wood and glass panes

Bathala

main god

Torogan

major typologies of a Maranao House: ancestral home of the upperclass

Mala-a

major typologies of a Maranao House: large houses, a necessity in the polygamous culture

Lawig

major typologies of a Maranao House:small houses

MANILA POST OFFICE BUILDING

masterpiece of Juan Arellano in Neo-Classical style during the Commonwealth Period. Symbolized the takeover of the Imperial America of the Chino-Hispanic influence in construction.

SECTION 706: Allowable Floor Area Increases

may be increased

R-2

medium density residential use, low-rise single-attached, duplex or multi-level bldg for exclusive use as multiple family dwellings

Entresuelo

mezzanine elevated at about a meter from the ground and found underneath the master bedroom

3.60 m x 18.00 m

minimum dimensions for articulated truck parking/loading slot

3.00 x 9.00 m

minimum dimensions for jeepney or shuttle parking/loading slot

3.60 x 12.00 m

minimum dimensions for standard truck or bus parking/loading slot.

visita system

missionaries spread to the outlying villages spending a few days in each locality

Tanghalang Francisco Balagtas

more commonly known by its original name of Folk Arts Theater

Direct Personnel Expenses

most common multiplier in time basis

"ARQUITECTURA MESTIZA"

new form of construction that responded both to earthquakes and tropical climate (heat and heavy rainfall)

SECTION 702: Change in use

no change shall be made unless made to comply

Four-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation

no openings, shall be of not less than 4-hour fire-resistive

Two-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation

not less than 2-hour fire resistive, protected by a fire assembly having 2-hour fire-resistive rating

Three-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation

not less than 3-hour fire resistive, protected by a fire assembly having 3-hour fire-resistive rating

One-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation

not less than one-hour fire resistive, protected by a fire assembly having one-hour fire-resistive rating

Cathedral

occupies an outstanding place in the plaza mayor

Azotea

open terrace

physicial planning

orderly arrangement within a piece of land on which vertical and horizontal developments are to be proposed.

Volada

overhanging balcony

Batalan

pBahay Kubo Parts: orch which opens from the paglutuan

on-site parking

parking slots and ancillary spaces that are located outside rrow/street and to be provided only within the property lines or limits of a site of lot on which a building or structure is to be constructed. may be below grade, at grade or above grade

off-row parking

parking slots and ancillary spaces that are located outside the rrow or street;

tabique (Spanish)

partition or wall.

Gov. Santiago de Vera

passed a law that buildings be constructed from masonry using volcanic stones: adobe after the great fire. (TAO ITUU)

Lyric Theater

premieres the first, and by far most memorable fulllength animated feature from the Disney Studios, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"

Project Manager

primary responsibility is to exercise the over all cost control

Group I Division 2

private garages, carports, fences over 1.8m high, tanks, swimming pools and towers

Group J-2

private garages, towers, chimneys

NARRA (Nara ka ba? Kasi ikaw ang NARRArapat sa akin)

prized for its blood-sheen, along with banaba, guiso, mangachupoy - ideal for floorboards.

Fire Resistance of Walls

projections beyond exterior wall shall not exceed a point 1/3 distance from assumed vertical plane

Béton brut

raw concrete

Group G Division 4

repair garages

7 years old (feat Lucas Graham)

required to register in schools located in their own town or province and were given free school materials.

Group A Division 1

residential bldg for exclusive use of single family dwellings

Group A Division 2

residential bldg for the exclusive use of non-leasing occupants not exceeding 10 persons including single attached/duplex/townhouses

Construction Manager

responsible on programming, coordination, quality and cost control and time management

Transport Component

road and transit networks, land sea air linkages, the movement of people and goods from one place to another

Pegawidan

royalty

PHILIPPINE NORMAL COLLEGE

school for teachers

Sustainable Architecture

seeks to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by efficiency and moderation in the use of materials, energy, and development space

accompanying matrix

shows the groupings and divisions and the corresponding uses

Samadhi Statu

situated in Mahamevnawa Park, the Buddha is depicted in the position of Dhyana Mudra, a posture of meditation associated with his first enlightenment

Ranggar

small Islamic prayer housed would be located in the community

Rubble work (mamposteria)

small uncut pieces of rock or river stones, piled on top of each other and held together by mortar.

Group H Division 4

stadia, reviewing stands, amusement park structures not included in divisions 1,2,3

Group J-3

stages, plastforms, etc

Group I Division 3

stages, platforms, pelota, tennis, badminton or basketball courts, tombs, mauseleums, niches, aviaries, aquariums, zoo, banks, record vaults

Brise-soliel

sun breaker or sun baffle

Ayuntamiento building

symbol of the Town Council is also constructed in the plaza (alcades/city leaders and oidores/judges)

Ebgan

the girl's dormitory where courtship between young men and women took place.

Cocina

the kitchen sometime built separately

Caida

the living room where balls & dances are held during special occasions

dap-ay

the men's dormitory and civic center

Caida

the most immediate room from the stairs used for entertaining friends

Animism

the oldest religion - a belief that natural objects have souls practiced by indigenous peoples in the mountains of Luzon.

Zamboanga East and West Elementary School

the oldest school building during the American regime.

Socio-Cultural Component

the people, their living conditions and the seeking of ways to ameliorate

Chalet (tsalet) - BUNGALOID STYLE

the popular house design in the highlands and in sites with cool climates.

Floor to Lot Area Ratio (FLAR or FAR)

the ratio between the gross floor area (GFA) and total lot area (TLA)

Legal and Administrative Component

the relationship of adopted development proposals and policies to existing laws

The Manila Cathedral,

the seat of the Archbishop of Manila during the Spanish colonial period; it still remains as the ecclesiastical seat of the Archdiocese of Manila.

Total Gross Floor Area (TGFA)

the total floor space within the main and auxiliary buildings primarily conSisting of the GFA and all other enclosed support areas together with all other usable horizontal areaS/surfaces above and below established grade level that are all physically attached to the building/s which shall consists of the following:

Three-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation

the total width of all openings in any one-storey shall not exceed 25% of length of wall and no single openings shall have area greater than 10sqm, vertical enclosures shall be not less than 2-hour fire resistive

Greene & Greene Architects

their architectural styles are: - structure of the house was externalized rather than hidden behind decorations - extravagance of supports takes its origins from elaborate joinery and framing of traditional Japanese architecture - they made use of diff types of wood and utilized natural light

Herzog and de Meuron

their style was modern minimalist and their commitment of articulation through materiality is a common concept through all their projects

Leandro Locsin

they describe him as the "Poet of Space" for the way he articulated space using straightforward geometry

Palitada (plaster)

thin layer of stucco to prevent erosion and wearing away by the elements.

Comun or latrina

toilet that is adjacent to the service area

LUMAH (OLD NA DAW)

traditional Yakan house which faces the east.

Tinalak

unusual tie-dyed and woven abaca cloth used for dresses during ceremonies and festivities.

Architectural Design Competition

used for civic or monumental projects. Various architects and firms submit plan/design solutions to a particular design problem and are judged on the basis of comparative excellence.

Kankanai House

variation of the Ifugao prototype

ato

village wards

Modern architecture in the Philippines

was a departure from the neoclassic beaux arts tradition, but like the local neoclassic, it was still a product of foreign influence, a transplant from the west.

The Pasig River Light

was the first light station in the Philippines when it was established in 1642.

Manila

was the seat of central government

Integrated and Accredited Professional Organization of Architects

what does IAPOA stand for?

Temporary Special Permit

what does TSP stand for?

Doubled

when the suspension of construction exceeds 6 months, the fee for the remaining works shall be...

Panay

where is the first settlement in Spanish Colonial

SECTION 703: Mixed occupancy

whole bldg shall be subject to the most restrictive requirement

S. Giovanni degli Eremiti, Palermo

with mosaics and dome of Byzantine & Moslenm influence

Group G Division 3

wood working establishments, planning mills, box factories where loose combustible fibers or dust are manufactured


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