Philippine Vernacular Architecture

Question 1

Earliest form of human habitation

Answer 1

Prehistoric Caves

Question 2

Earliest cave dwellers in the Philippines two to half a million years ago

Answer 2

Pleistocene people

Question 3

Most antiquated and largest cave dwelt by prehistoric families for 30 thousand years, in Lipuun Point, southwest of Palawan,

Answer 3

Tabon Cave

Question 4

Discovered the fossil in Tabon Cave

Answer 4

Dr. Robert B. Fox

Question 5

People who still live in caves in the Mantalingajan Mountain in Palawan

Answer 5

Tau’t Batu

Question 6

Basic sleeping platform made from tree branches and dried leaves

Answer 6

Datag

Question 7

Prehistoric drawings of human figures engraved in cave walls

Answer 7

Petroglyphs

Question 8

Mountaintop citadels in Savidug, Batanes

Answer 8

Idjang

Question 9

Fundamental act of building practiced by nomads in the Philippines

Answer 9

Windbreak (Lean-to)

Question 10

Lean-to of the Agta of Palanan; a botanic shield

Answer 10

Pinanahang

Question 11

Simple windscreen used by the Mamanua of Northeastern Mindanao made of wild banana, coconut fronds or grass

Answer 11

Dait-dait

Question 12

Of the Pinatubo Aeta, has no living platform and is usually constructed with a ridgepole

Answer 12

Hawong

Question 13

Provided the earliest written description of the tree house in the Philippines in 1854

Answer 13

Paul de la Gironiere

Question 14

The night abode of the Tinguian that rested in tree tops

Answer 14

Alligang

Question 15

First inhabitants in the Philippines

Answer 15

Negritos

Question 16

Age of the Terraces according to Henry O. Beyer

Answer 16

Existed at least by 1000 B.C

Question 17

Denotes indigenous, folk, tribal, ethnic, or traditional architecture

Answer 17

Vernacular Architecture

Question 18

Latin word for “Vernacular”

Answer 18

Vernaculus

Question 19

5 Principal Features of Vernacular Architecture

Answer 19

1. Builders, non-professional engineers or architects
2. Constant adaptation
3. Construction using intuitive thinking
4. Balance between social, economic, and aesthetic features
5. Protracted evolution of traditional styles

Question 20

“Pure, Southeast Asian type of domestic architecture…”

Answer 20

Balai