Spanish Colonial Architecture Flashcards
On November 19 or 20, 1564 a Spanish expedition of a mere 500 men led by ________ departed ___________, New Spain, arriving off Cebu on February 13,1565, conquering it despite Cebuano opposition
Miguel López de Legazpi
Barra de Navidad
Instruments of Urbanism
Instruments of Urbanism
▪ Reducción
▪ Encomienda system
▪ System of cities and
towns
▪ Cuadricula
▪ Colonial infrastructures
Forced urbanization and resettlement
Reducción
Native peoples, many of whom had lived in small villages or hamlets before contact with Europeans, were forcibly relocated to these new settlements.
Reducción
The formerly scattered barangays were brought together and reduced in number and made into 2. _________ to facilitate religious conversion and cultural change
- Reducción
- compact and larger communities
___________, under the sound of the bells.
De Bajo de las campanas
The colony was divided into parcels assigned to a Spanish colonist (encomendero) who was mandated to “allocate, allot or distribute” the resources of the domain
Encomienda
Encomienda System
The colony was divided into parcels assigned to a Spanish colonist 1. (____________) who was mandated to 2. “___________” the resources of the domain
- encomendero
- “allocate, allot or distribute”
The institution of a hierarchal settlement system.
System of Cities and Towns
_____________, core of the municipality
Cabecera (city) or poblacion (town)
__________, adjacent barangays
Barrios
Patterned after the walled fortresses of Europe
Intramuros
Reserved for the nobility and the clergy
Intramuros
___________, the Walled City
Intramuros
Living beyond the walls
Extramuros
________, villages outside the walls
Pueblos
__________, a separate urban quarter designated to the Chinese community
Parian
________, Japanese community
Dilao
A system of streets and blocks laid out in a grid pattern, with uniform precision.
Cuadricula
The Laws of the Indies, 1573
Characteristics:
Characteristics:
▪ elevated location
▪ an orderly grid of streets
▪a central plaza, a defensive wall, and zones for churches, shops, government buildings, hospitals, and slaughterhouses.
Encapsulates the 2. ___________ of urban design proposed by Vitruvius and Alberti.
- The Laws of the Indies, 1573
- classicist theories
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
Edifices for religious conversion
Churches