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In 1933, He Founded Philippine Architects Society (PAS) Which was later called Philippine Institute of Architects (PIA) in 1945. - Answer -JUAN NAKPIL
- " FORM EVER FOLLOWS FUNCTION."
- " OUR ARCHITECTURE REFLECTS TRULY AS A MIRROR." 3.) "THE ARCHITECT WHO COMBINES IN HIS BEING THE POWERS OF VISION, OF IMAGINATION, OF INTELLECT, OF SYMPATHY WITH HUMAN NEED AND THE POWER TO INTERPRET THEM IN A LANGUAGE VERNACULAR AND TIME--- IS HE WHO SHALL CREATE POEMS IN STONE." 4.)"FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION" - Answer -LOUIS SULLIVAN 1.)"ARCHITECTURE IS ORGANIC" 2)" THE THING ALWAYS HAPPENS THAT YOU REALLY BELIEVE IN; AND THE BELIEF IN A THING MAKES IT HAPPEN." 3.)" A DOCTOR CAN BURY HIS MISTAKES BUT AN ARCHITECT CAN ONLY ADVISE HIS CLIENT TO PLANT VINES." 4.)THE GOOD BUILDING IS NOT ONE THAT HURTS THE LANDSCAPE, BUT ONE WHICH MAKES THE LANDSCAPE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN IT WAS BEFORE THE BUILDING WAS BUILT."
5.)"ARCHITECTURE IS THE TRIUMPH OF HUMAN
IMAGINATION OVER MATERIALS, METHODS, AND MEN, TO
PUT MAN INTO POSSESSION OF HIS OWN EARTH"
6.)" AN ARCHITECT'S MOST USEFUL TOOLS ARE AN
ERASER AT THE DRAFTING BOARD, AND A WRECKING BAR
AT THE SITE."
7.)"EVERY GREAT ARCHITECT IS- NECESSARILY - A GREAT
POET.HE MUST BE A GREAT ORIGINAL INTERPRETER OF
HIS TIME,HIS DAY, HIS AGE"
8.)"ALL FINE ARCHITECTURAL VALUES ARE HUMAN VALES,
ELSE NOT VALUABLE."
9.)" I KNOW THE PRICE OF SUCCESS: DEDICATION, HARD
WORK AND AN UNREMITTING DEVOTION TO THE THINGS
YOU - Answer -FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT 1.) " WE ARE CALLED TO BE ARCHITECTS OF THE FUTURE, NOT ITS VICTIMS." 2.)" DOING MORE WITH LESS." 3.)"WHEN I AM WORKING ON A PROBLEM, I NEVER THINK ABOUT BEAUTY... BUT WHEN I HAVE FINISHED, IF THE SOLUTION IS NOT BEAUTIFUL, I KNOW IT IS WRONG" - Answer -RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER 1.) "MAKE BIG PLANS; AIM HIGH IN HOPE AND WORK, REMEMBERING THAT A NOBLE, LOGICAL DIAGRAM ONCE RECORDED WILL NOT DIE"
3.)"ARCHITECTURE IS THE WILL OF AN EPOCH
TRANSLATED INTO SPACE" - Answer -LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
- A SINGLE, LARGE UPRIGHT MONOLITH
- SERVED A RELIGIOUS PURPOSE - Answer -MENHIR -ENCLOSURE FORM BY HUGE STONE PLANTED ON THE GROUND IN CIRCULAR FORM. - Answer -CROMLECH
Tomb of standing stones usually capped with a large horizontal slab - Answer -DOLMEN •Dominant tomb type •Corridor inside leading to an underground chamber •A BURIAL MOUND - Answer -TUMULUS or PASSAGE GRAVE 1.) THE FIRST ALL STEEL CHURCH IN THE PHILIPPINES AND IN ASIA 2.) the 1st " all iron church in the World"(1991), early builders by : Augustinian Recollects then Engr. Don Genaro Palacios y Guerra designed. - Answer -SAN SEBASTIAN CHURCH 1.)The National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, also known as _____________________________ and colloquially as the Baclaran Church. 2.) Considered the most visited church in Asia - Answer - Redemptorist Church
The memorial column built in the form of tall Doric order and made entirely of marble is - Answer -Trajan's Column "For the Creation of Space ____________a Chinese Philosopher, said, "The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in." - Answer -Lao Tze The final plan shape of the St. Peter's Basilica by Carlo Maderna.
- Answer -Latin Cross What do you call the tool in architecture which organizes space or spatial composition related to function? - Answer -Functional interrelationship diagram Male Figure in Kneeling position Supporting the world at his shoulder - Answer -Atlantes Same as caryatid but this time with basket on their head - Answer -Canephorae "A ____________ is a ___________ which extends vertically from lowest portion of the wall which adjoins two living units up to a minimum height of 0.30 meters above the highest portion of the roof and extends horizontally 0.30 meters beyond the outermost edge of the abutting living units? - Answer -Firewall; Fireblock How did the Egyptians transfer the materials from the production area to construction area. - Answer -Wooden Wheels In the Pyramid at Gizah , why are the dead Pharaoh are mummified? - Answer -To Preserved the body for reincarnation
materials permitted by this Code: Provided, that the building shall be one-hour fire-resistive throughout. Exterior walls shall be of incombustible fire-resistive construction. (4) Type IV. buildings shall be of steel, iron, concrete, or masonry construction. Walls, ceiling, and permanent partitions shall be of incombustible fireresistive construction: Except, that permanent non-bearing partitions of one-hour fire-resistive construction may use fire- - Answer - TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION (NBCP) What is the minimum kitchen size? - Answer -3 m Accessible elevator should be located not more than ___________________ mtrs from the entrance and should be easy to locate. - Answer -30 Mtrs. The applicant for a building permit for private buildings or structures after having complied with all the requirements prescribed therefor in accordance with the provisions of this Code, shall be issued a building permit within ________________days from the date of payment of the permit fee for Groups A and J Occupancies and within _______________days from the date of payment of the permit fee for other Group Occupancies, unless the Building Official or his Deputy authorized to issue the permit shall inform the applicant in writing why the permit should not be issued, and shall indicate thereon the particular provisions of the Code violated by the applicant or the particular requirements not complied with. - Answer -Fifteen (15) , Thirty (30) comfortable Cooling shall be maintained at - Answer -20 deg C Residential Dwellings - Answer -Group A
Occupancies shall be multiple dwelling units including boarding or lodging houses, hotels, apartment buildings, row houses, convents, monasteries, and other similar building each of which accommodates more than ten persons. - Answer -Group B Occupancies shall be buildings used for school or day-care purposes, involving assemblage for instruction, education, or recreation, and not classified in Group I or in Division 1 and 2 or Group H Occupancies. - Answer -Group C Occupancies shall include: Division 1. Mental hospitals, mental,sanitaria, jails, prisons, reformatories, and buildings where personal liberties of inmates are similarly restrained. Division 2. Nurseries for full-time care of children under kindergarten age, hospitals, sanitaria, nursing homes with nonambulatory patients, and similar buildings each accommodating more than five persons. Division 3. Nursing homes for ambulatory patients, homes for children of kindergarten age or over, each accommodating more than five persons: Provided, that Group D Occupancies shall not include buildings used only for private or family group dwelling purposes. - Answer -Group D Division 1. Gasoline filling and service stations, storage garages and boot storage structures where no work is done except exchange of parts and maintenance requiring no open flame, welding, or the use of highly flammable liquids.
amusement park structures not included within Group I or in Division 1, 2, and 3 of this Group. - Answer -Group H Assembly Occupant Load 1000 or More Group I Occupancies shall be any assembly building with an age and an occupant load of 1000 or more in the building. - Answer -Group I Accessory Occupancies shall include: Division 1. Private garage, carports, sheds and agriculture buildings. Division 2. Fences over 1.80 meters high, tanks, and towers. - Answer -Group J Sidewalk of 2.00 mtrs. or more, width shall include on its outer side a planting strip of not less than.? - Answer -800 mm (. mtrs) A certificate of Occupancy shall be issued by the Building Official within ______________ days if after final inspection and submittal of a Certificate of Completion referred to in the preceding section, it is found that the building or structure complies with the provisions of this Code. - Answer -thirty (30) days The Building Official may order or cause the non-issuance, suspension or revocation of building permits on any or all of the following reasons or grounds: - Answer -(a) Errors found in the plans and specifications; (b) In correct or inaccurate data or information supplied; (c) Non-compliance with the provisions of this Code or of any rule or regulation.
A building permit issued under the provisions of this Code shall expire and become null and void if the building or work authorized therein is not commenced within a period of _____________ from the date of such permit, or if the building or work so authorized is suspended or abandoned at any time after it has been commenced, for a period of _____________ - Answer -one (1) year (12 months) / 120 days. (3 months) Portion of the foundation or structure, which spreads and transmit loads directly to the soil or the pile - Answer -Footing Eaves over required windows shall not be less than ___________________from the side and rear property lines. - Answer -750 millimeters Fire Resistance of Walls.(NBCP) Projections beyond the exterior wall shall not exceed beyond a point ___________the distance from an assumed vertical plane located where the fire-resistive protection of openings is first required to the location on property whichever is the least restrictive. Distance shall be measured at right angles from the property line. When openings in exterior walls are required to be protected due to distance from property line, the sum of the areas of such openings in any storey shall not exceed _______ percent of the total area of the wall in that storey. - Answer -one-third (1/3) , fifty Percent (50 %) Dwelling Location and Lot Occupancy. The dwelling shall occupy not more than ___________ percent of a corner lot and ______________ percent of an inside lot, and subject to the provisions on Easement on Light and View of the Civil Code of the Philippines, shall be at least___________
The live load of the first floor shall be at least ____________ kilograms per square meter and for the second floor, at least ___________kilograms per square meter. - Answer - kilograms per square meter, 150 kilograms Roof. The wind load for roofs shall be at least _____________kilograms per square meter for vertical projection. - Answer -120 kilograms Stairs. Stairs shall be at least ___________ millimeters in clear width, with a rise of ____________ millimeters and a minimum run of ___________millimeters. - Answer -750 millimeters , 200 millimeters, 200 millimeters. All inner courts shall be connected to a street or yard, either by a passageway with a minimum width of _____________meters or by a door through a room or rooms. - Answer -1.20 meters Mezzanine floors shall have a clear ceiling height not less than ___________meters above and below it. - Answer -1. meters What art principle shows the relationships between the various parts of an object/structure/groups of objects and structures? - Answer -Proportion Habitable rooms provided with artificial ventilation have ceiling heights not less than 1)____________ measured from the floor to the ceiling; Provided that for buildings of more than one-storey, the minimum ceiling height of the first
storey shall be 2.) _____________meters and that for the second storey 3.)___________meters and succeeding storeys shall have an unobstructed typical head-room clearance of not less than 4.) ___________ meters above the finished floor. Above stated rooms with a natural ventilation shall have ceiling height not less than __________ meters. - Answer -1.) 2.40 meters 2.) 2. meters 3.)2.40 meters 4.) 2.10 meters 5.) 2.70 meters. Bath and toilet. 1.)_____________square meters with at least dimension of 2.)_____________ meters. - Answer -1.20 square meters The dining hall in a monastery, a convent, or a college. - Answer - Refectory Rooms for Human Habitations. 1.)__________ square meters with at least dimensions of 2.)________ meters - Answer -1.) 6. square meters, 2 ) 2.00 meters Kitchens. 1.) __________ square meters with at least dimension of 2.)___________meters; - Answer -1.) 3.00 square meters 2.) 1.50 meters; Amphitheaters are used for ___. - Answer -Gladiatorial Contests A type of Roman wall facing with a net-like effect. - Answer -Opus Recticulatum A term given to the mixture of Christian, Spanish, and Muslim 12th-16th century architecture. - Answer -Mudejar
Perceived boundaries such as walls, rails, buildings, shorelines - Answer -Edges Primary identifying characteristic of a volume; determined by the shape and interrelationships of the planes that describe the boundaries of the volume - Answer -Form Deals with the development of a plan arrangement to serve in a purely mechanical way. - Answer -Functional design Size of a building element relative to other forms in its context. - Answer -Generic scale Symbols of authority; e.g. larger office space for higher officials - Answer -Hierarchy introduced Romanesque revival in the USA - Answer -Henry H. Richardson (type of line) horizon of the seascape, peaceful. - Answer - Horizontal line (architect) - Le Grand Louvre (pyramid), Paris; The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Islamic Art, Doha; The Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong - Answer -I.M. Pei Major streets or landmarks; documentation of distances. - Answer -Location his works clearly express the principle of functionalism and was called the Father of Modern Architecture in the USA - Answer - Louis Sullivan
features located on site with measurements. - Answer -Man made features Manipulation of styles or forms achieved by the learned juxtaposition of elements for the exclusive aim of achieving originality for effect. - Answer -Mannerism defined architecture as, "utilitas, firmitas, venustas", meaning utility, firmness and delight. - Answer -Marcus Vitruvius Pollio evidence of the 3rd dimension - Answer -Mass / Volume Japanese movement founded in 1960; to ease urban congestion and expand cities by adopting innovative types of architecture; concentrated on the new order of relationships between man and the environment; earlier based on organic and cybernectic analogies. - Answer -Metabolism no-budget architecture; no meaningful distinction between luxury and necessity. - Answer -Metarationalism The idea of building monuments; "The form of an object should last." - Answer -Monumentalism Bolstered by ideas of national aggrandizement; fed on particular local historical motifs and devices. - Answer -National Romanticism Pictorial decoration like biblical or secular history depicted in churches or structures natural physical features - Answer - Naturalistic
Correct size and shape for equipment, furniture, and circulation within - Answer -Physical qualities of units (property of form) a form's location relative to its environment or visual field - Answer -Position Tells a story - Answer -Pictorial reaction to "meta-architecture" - Answer -Post-metabolism English architect and engineer; leading representative of high tech architecture; Shanghai Bank, Hongkong; Carre d'Art Gallery, Nimes; Reichstag, Berlin; Great Court, London - Answer -Sir Norman Foster (property of form) the real dimensions of form. - Answer -Size restrictions, set-backs, building height limit, allowable site coverage, uses, parking requirements. - Answer -Size & zoning (programmatic concept) mixed flow, separated flow, sequential flow - Answer -Spatial flow (circulatory element) makes the communication possible between the various floors. - Answer -Stairs, ramps, elevators & escalators (type of line) sturdy, masculine - Answer -Straight line Requires that materials and construction be used economically and logically - Answer -Strength of structure Iron construction; initiated by Joseph Paxton's "Crystal Palace"; brought about a trend in architecture - Answer -Structuralism
Surface with two-dimensions - Answer -Surface / area Balance is equality; elements are arranged precisely in the same manner on either side - Answer -Symmetrical balance Formed by a rebellious group of young Turks who contested the principles of modern architecture; Bakerna & Eyck - Answer - Team X (property of form) the surface characteristics of a form, identified with materials (rough or smooth, etc.) - Answer -Texture Must have contrast, rhythm, and scale; suggests harmony. - Answer -Unity more subtle and elusive balance - Answer -Unsymmetrical balance Prefabricated; seeking for economic solution for low value sites, as well as alternative or cheap forms of construction - Answer - Utilitarianism water supply, sewage and drainage, phone, electricity, railroad, etc. - Answer -Utilities (type of line) proud, exalted - Answer -Vertical line (property of form) the degree of concentration and stability of a form; depends on its geometry as well as its orientation - Answer - Visual inertia (Architect) Philippine General Hospital - Answer -William Parsons
