History of Architecture 4: Midterms Reviewer part 2 Flashcards
A style which originated in Western Europe in ca. 1840-85 reviving the elements of the Italian Renaissance
Architecture of the 16th century
Italianate
The architecture of the 16th century with square cupolas or towers; elaborate classical detailing; wide overhanging eaves with closely-spaced decorative brackets; tall and narrow square or arched windows; L shaped plans; arcaded porches with balustrades; and /ow-pitched or flat roof
Italianate
Notable buildings of this style are:
Nelly’s Garden House, Iloilo
Villa Lizares (now the Angelicum School), Pasig
Museum and Malacanang Palace in Manila
Italianate
A small round window, often
along the dormer or exterior wall.
bullseye
A type of roof having a low slope or inclination.
low-pitch roof
A wall with building stones of
rough surfaces and chamfered or beveled edges.
rustic wall
A type of window that protrudes
from a wall, forming a bay or alcove in a room.
bay window
The arrangement of columns or pilasters in pairs, placed very closely together.
Accouplement
A type of segmental pediment
with a base having an opening at
the center; usually applied to a wall above a door or window.
broken-bed segmental
pediment
A type of column with a shaft
carved into twisted or spira{form
salomonica columns
An emblem often of heraldic
bearings and usually placed
above the main entrance door or along the hip gable wall.
eskudo/ coat of arms
A canopied niche or opening
flanked by pilasters or colonnettes.
aedicule
A style in Europe during the reign
of Queen Victoria in Great Britain
(1837-1901) reviving and/or
combining the elements of Gothic
and Italianate styles
Victorian
Architectural characteristics include: steep
gabled roof and dormers; cone- shaped turrets or square tower with mansard roof; intricate or richly ornamented panellings, trusses, and braces; panelled exterior walling with either
horizontal, vertical or diagonal design; and wide overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends.
Victorian
Notable buildings of this style are
Carcar Dispensary (now Carcar Museum) in Cebu,
Legarda Elementary School in Manila, and
Silliman Hall in Dumaguete City.
Victorian
Any tower which is roughly square
in plan and roofed with a doublypitched gable or hip-roof form. ·
square tower with mansard roof
A type of gutter, usually of sheet
metal, firmly attached to a fascia
board of an eaves to catch
rainwater from the roof and
convey it to a downspout.
fascia gutter
A rain water pipe, usually
of metal sheet, vertically
attached to an exterior
wall to direct rain water
from a roof gutter to the
ground or catch basin.
downspout
An air vent placed along the · eaves with ornamental design
pattern.
decorative eaves vent
A thin decorative column
placed along an exterior
window opening as means of division and added
support for sliding window
shutter.
Colonnete
A framed roof-like shading structure over a window or door to provide protection especially against the sun and rain.
sibi, awning ..
A type of exterior cladding of
timber boards in a lattice form.
lattice siding
A series of steps placed in
front of a building that
leads to its main entrance.
approach stair
An architecture movement which
originated in the United States at
the end of the 19th century
reviving and/or employing the
elements of the Spanish Colonial
Revival Style.
Mission Revival
This has been widely used in California
characterized by the used of lowpitched gable tiled roof, stucco finish exterior walls, wide eaves with closely-spaced exposed
rafter end, frontispiece with exposed gable wall, and imposing square towers with pyramidal roof
Mission Revival
Notable buildings of this
style are the Bureau of Science
Building and Normal School (now Philippine Normal University) on Manila, and Cebu High School in
Cebu.
Mission Revival
The underside of roof eaves openly showing portions of the rafter which overhangs the wall.
exposed rafter tail
A projecting space at the lower
portion of a window in the
upper floors that is enclosed with either wood, stone, or metal decorative railings.
balconette
The underside of the balcony or balconette with series of decorative brackets of equal
spacing.
bracketed eaves
The masonry wall having smooth faces brought about by the limebased stucco coating applied to the bricks or natural stones wall to reduce the effect of erosion.
smooth finish stucco
A type of window composed of
four lobes or foils.
quatrefoil window
A type of dormer projecting above the tiled roof in Mission Architecture with multi-curved shape design similar to the mission parapet.
mission dormer
A low wall, extending from the
junction of an external wall and
roof, with multicurved-shape
design on its upper end
mission parapet
a tower, square in plan, covered
with a pyramid form roof
square tower with pyramidal roof
A type of cornice supported by a series of decorative brackets of
equal spacing.
bracketed cornice
A fire-proof vertical structure
that encloses a flue carrying
waste gases from buildings or other apparatus.
tsimenea, chimney
A style which originated in Europe and in the
United States from 1885 to 1925 reviving and
combining the Greek and Roman Classical
Architecture with the ideas of Renaissance
Architecture.
Neoclassic
Also called Classical Revival and
Beaux Arts Classicism, this style incorporates
grandiose symmetrical composition and facade, colonnaded portico with grand stair and imposing columns, balustraded balconies, pronounced
cornices and entablatures, and triangular
pediment.
Neoclassic
Significant buildings of this style include
Post Office Building and Paco Train Station in
Manila, Sorsogon Provincial Capitol in Sorsogon City, and University of the Philippines in lloilo City.
Neoclassic
The triangular gable usually
enclosed by horizontal and
raking cornices above a portico or colonnaded facade.
pediment
The thick horizontal band above
columns, consisting typically of
the architrave, frieze, and
cornice.
entablature
A column based on the classical
Greek and Roman orders,
consisting typically of three
elements: the base, shaft, and
capital.
classical column
A solid piece of masonry or concrete, usually without ornamentation and form as the
lowest member of the base.
base block
An ornament used as moulding
or as a border consisting of two
or more interwoven bands
around a series of circles.
guilloche
An ornament in circular pattern
which resembles a stylized rose
flower or any other similar
flower.
rosette
An ornamental element added as
an adornment in a building.
palamuti, decoration
A decorative element, often
carved or molded, in a form of
intertwined flowers and or
ribbons and hanging between
two points.
peston, festoon
An ornament common in classical architecture based on stylized palm leaf or honeysuckle foliage
Anthemion
The uppermost structural member
of a classical column or pilaster,
often ornamental and placed
above the shaft to support the
entablature.
capital
The vertical portion of a classical
column or pilasters between the
capital and the base.
shaft
The lowest portion of a classical
column, usually carved
according to patterns and
proportions of the Greek and
Roman orders .
classical base
