HOA 4 (Spanish Colonial Architecture) Flashcards
On November 19 or 20, 1564 a Spanish expedition of a mere 500 men led by Miguel López de Legazpi departed Barra de Navidad, New Spain, arriving off Cebu on February 13, 1565, conquering it despite Cebuano opposition.
Five Instruments of Urbanism
▪ Reducción
▪ Encomienda system
▪ System of cities andtowns
▪ Cuadricula
▪ Colonial infrastructures
Forced urbanization and resettlement.
Reducción
The formerly scattered barangays were brought together and reduced in number and made into larger communities to facilitate religious conversion and cultural change.
Reduccion
What do you call under the sound of the bells?
De Bajo de las campanas
The colony was divided into parcels assigned to a Spanish colonist (encomendero) who wasmandated to “allocate, allot or distribute” the resources of the domain.
Encomienda
The institution ofa hierarchal settlement system
System of Cities and Towns
________ (city) or ________ (town), core of the
municipality. _________, adjacent barangays.
Cabecera, poblacion, Barrios
■ Patterned after the walled fortresses of Europe
■ Reserved for the nobility and the clergy.
Intramuros
Living beyond the walls
Extramuros
It is called villages outside the walls.
Pueblos
It is called a separate urban quarter designated to the Chinese community .
Parian
It Is called Japanese community.
Dilao
A system of streets and blocks laid out in a grid pattern, with uniform precision.
Cuadricula
What are the characteristics in The Laws of the Indies, 1573?
▪ elevated location
▪ an orderly grid of streets
▪ a central plaza, a defensive wall, and zones for churches, shops, government buildings, hospitals, and slaughterhouses.
Who proposed the Encapsulates the classicist theories of urban design?
Vitruvius and Alberti
Grid pattern of streets with the main plaza at the center surrounded by the
church, the tribunal, other government buildings, and the marketplace.
Plaza Complex
New building typologies and construction technology was introduced
Colonial Infrastructures
It is Edifices for religious conversion.
Churches
Parts of Church
▪ Altar mayor, main altar.
▪ Sagrario, tabernacle.
▪ Pulpito, pulpit.
▪ Retablo, elaborately ornamented altar screen.
▪ Sacristia, where the priest and his assistants put on their robes before the mass.
▪ Coro, choir loft.
▪ Tribunas, screened gallery.
It is called parish house or rectory
Convento
Also called as bell towers
Campanarios
Where can San Agustin Church be found?
Intramuros, Manila
San Agustin Church
■ The Church of the Immaculate Conception of San Agustín.
■ First church to be built in Luzon.
■ Only structure in Intramuros to survive WWII.
■ High Baroque style retablo.
■ Ceiling paintings in the trompel’oeil style.
■ Chinese fu dogs at the entrance.
Where can Paoay Church be found?
Paoay, Ilocos Norte
Paoay Church
■ Saint Augustine Church.
■ Most outstanding example in the Philippines of ‘Earthquake Baroque’.
■ Volutes of contrafuertes (buttresses) and in the pyramidal finials of wall facades.
■ Massive coral stone bell tower.
Miag-ao Church
■ Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Church
■ Stands on the highest point of Miag-ao, its towers serving as lookouts against Muslim raids.
■ It is the finest surviving example of ‘Fortress Baroque’.
■ The facade epitomizes the Filipino transfiguration of western decorative elements.
Where can Miag-ao Church be found?
Miag-ao, Iloilo.
Where can Santa Maria Church be found?
Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur