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TIMELINE OF PHILIPPINE ARCHITECTURE

PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES REFLECTS


THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN THE
COUNTRY. MOST PROMINENT HISTORIC STRUCTURES
IN THE ARCHIPELAGO ARE INFLUENCED
BY AUSTRONESIAN, CHINESE, SPANISH,
AND AMERICAN ARCHITECTURES.
DURING THREE HUNDRED THIRTY YEARS OF SPANISH
COLONIALIZATION, THE PHILIPPINE ARCHITECTURE
WAS DOMINATED BY THE SPANISH INFLUENCES.
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
THE AUGUSTINIAN FRIARS, ALONG WITH OTHER
RELIGIOUS ORDERS, BUILT MANY GRAND CHURCHES
AND CATHEDRALS ALL OVER THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
DURING THIS PERIOD THE TRADITIONAL
FILIPINO BAHAY NA BATÓ (FILIPINO FOR "HOUSE OF
STONE") STYLE FOR THE LARGE HOUSES EMERGED.
THESE WERE LARGE HOUSES BUILT OF STONE AND
WOOD COMBINING FILIPINO, SPANISH AND CHINESE
STYLE ELEMENTS.

MUSLIM PERIOD
MUSLIM PERIOD

ISLAM AS A RELIGION HAS LONG BEEN ESTABLISHED SINCE THE EARLY A.D. 600S. ALONG
WITH ITS EMERGENCE AROUND THE WORLD, IT ALSO PAVED WAY FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF ITS OWN UNIQUE STLYE OF ART. ISLAMIC ART PLACE EMPHASIS ON
CREATING AN ARTFORM THAT IS BUILT ON THE BEAUTY AND RESPECT FOR THE
TEACHINGS OF ISLAM.
ONE CHARACTERISTIC OF ISLAMIC ART IS THE ABSENCE OF HUMAN FORM.
THIS TRADITION COMES FROM THE BELIEF THAT ANY FIGURAL REPRESENTATION
SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF WORSHIP. THIS IS EVIDENT IN THE
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF MOSQUES IN MINDANAO WHERE CALLIGRAPHY IS USED AS
THE MAIN FORM OF EXPRESSION. HOWEVER, IT IS ALWAYS KEPT IN A MINIMUM.
BURAQ (ISLAMIC MYTHOLOGY)
FRAMES WITH QUR'AN PASSAGES
BAGUIO GRAND MOSQUE (AL MAARIF MOSQUE)
THE SULTAN HAJI HASSANAL BOLKIAH MASJID, ALSO KNOWN AS THE GRAND MOSQUE OF
COTABATO, IS THE LARGEST MOSQUE IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE MOSQUE IS LOCATED IN
BARANGAY KALANGANAN IN COTABATO CITY, AND WAS FUNDED BY SULTAN HASSANAL
BOLKIAH OF BRUNEI DARUSSALAM AT A REPORTED COST OF US$48 MILLION.
THE SULTAN OF BRUNEI, FUNDED THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS MOSQUE WITH HIS OWN
THE ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURES IS COMMONLY KNOWN FOR ITS
PERSONAL MONEY TO HELP THE EMERGING MUSLIM POPULATION IN THE SOUTHERN
PHILIPPINES.
 HUGE MOSQUES AND DOMES
 CALLIGRAPHY THE ONLY REMINDERS OF FILIPINO MUSLIM ART INSIDE MOSQUES IS THE TRADITIONAL
ART FORM KNOWN AS OKKIR.
 GEOMETRIC DESIGNS
 BYZANTINE CENTRAL
THISPLAN
ART OR
FORMARAB PLAN
IS BELIEVED TO BE OF HINDU AND CHINESE INFLUENCES. OKKIR USES
 HIGH AND MASSIVE WALLS
GEOMETRIC AND FLORAL ARTWORK. ONE POPULAR MOTIF OF THIS ART FORM IS THE
 SMALL OPENINGS USE
OR WINDOWS
OF AN IMAGERY OF A DRAGON OR SERPENT
 ROOFS THAT ARE FLAT, GENTLY PITCHED OR WITH DOMES
 COLUMNS THAT ARE STRUCTURAL AND DECORATIVE
 GEOMETRIC SHAPES OR FIGURATIVE PLANTS IN DECORATIONS
 ORNAMENTS WITH INTRICATE AND REPETITIVE ARABIC WRITINGS.
THE GRAND MOSQUE, SOUTHEAST ASIA’S SECOND
LARGEST MOSQUE, WAS BUILT IN COTABATO AS A SORT
OF RESPECT TO THE REGION’S ISLAMIC ROOTS. THIS
MASSIVE MOSQUE ON TAMONTAKA BUBONG ROAD IS
THE PHILIPPINES’ LARGEST OF ITS KIND. THIS EDIFICE IS
5,000 SQUARE METERS IN SIZE AND SITS ON A 5-
HECTARE TRACT OF GROUND. THE SULTAN HASSANAL
BOLKIAH MASJID, POPULARLY KNOWN AS THE GRAND
MOSQUE OR GOLDEN MOSQUE, HAS GOLD-PLATED
DOMES WITH OVER 40-METER-HIGH MINARETS.

INTERESTINGLY, CHRISTIAN ARCHITECT FELINO


PALAFOX DESIGNED THE PROJECT, WHICH WAS
FINISHED IN 2011. MANY CHRISTIAN GUARDS ARE
STATIONED AT THE MOSQUE, DEMONSTRATING THE
PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE OF THE REGION’S VARIOUS
FAITHS.

VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE
BADJAO HOUSE BAHAY KUBO

THE BAHAY KUBO, OR THE TRADITIONAL PHILIPPINE


VERNACULAR HOUSE, HAS BEEN IMMORTALISED IN
POPULAR AND ACADEMIC LITERATURE AND ARTS AS
THE QUINTESSENTIAL REPRESENTATION OF
PHILIPPINE ARCHITECTURE. ARCHITECTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY CONTINUALLY USED THE BAHAY
KUBO AS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR
DEVELOPING A SUPPOSED DISTINCT PHILIPPINE
ARCHITECTURE.

BONTOC HOUSE
IFUGAO RICE TERRACES, ZONING
IFUGAO HOUSE
PRE COLONIAL PERIOD

CAVES AND ROCK SHELTERS LIKE THE TABON CAVE IN PALAWAN


SERVED AS SHELTERS FOR THE EARLY FILIPINOS.  LATER ON THE
INVENTION OF VARIOUS TOOLS ALLOWED FOR THE FABRICATION
OF TENT-LIKE SHELTERS AND TREE HOUSES.

THE FOSSIL, COMPOSED OF HUMAN SKULL, JAW BONES AND TEETH,


A FORM OF DWELLING COMMON TO THE FOUND IN THE CAVE DATE BACK TO ABOUT 22,000 TO 23,000 YEARS
NEGRITOS, AN ETHNIC GROUP MAKING IT THE MOST IMPORTANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY IN
REGARDED AS WANDERERS, HUNTERS, THE COUNTRY.
AND FARMERS PRACTICING SLASH AND
BURN AGRICULTURE EVEN DURING THE ANOTHER IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE CAVE COMPLEX IS THE
HISPANIC PERIOD. THE LEAN-TO IS A WORLD-RENOWN BURIAL JAR, THE MANUNGGUL JAR, FEATURED IN
SINGLE-PITCHED STRUCTURE OF THE 1,000 PESO BILL. THE JAR IS ALSO A NATIONAL TREASURE.
GRASS OR THATCH ON WOOD TREE HOUSE IS A SINGLE-ROOMHOUSE THAT ARE EITHER
BRANCHES FRAMING WITH THE LOWER TABON INTEGRALLYBUILT
CAVE COMPLEX IS ON138-HECTARES
HIGH TREES OF
ORRUGGED
ABOVE CLIFFS AND
END RESTING ON THE GROUND AND DEEP SLOPES IN LIPUUN POINT IN QUEZON MUNICIPALITY LOCATED
ATREESTUMPSERVINGASTHEHOUSE’SMAINSUPPORT.TREEHOUSESAREMA
THE UPPER END SUPPORTED BY WOOD ABOUT DEOFLIGHTMATERIALS.
145 KILOMETERS SOUTHWEST OF PUERTO
A SINGLE-ROOM PRINCESA
HOUSE CITYMATERIALS
OF LIGHT
POSTS. IT IS SAID THAT ARE EITHER INTEGRALLY BUILT ON HIGH TREES OR ABOVE A TREE
THAT“PINANAHANG”ISFORM OF STUMP SERVING AS THE HOUSE'S MAIN SUPPORT.
DWELLING COMMON TO
TREE DWELLERS IN THE PHILIPPINES: - GAD DANG AND KALINGA OF
THENEGRITOS,ANETHNICGROUPREGAR
LUZON - MANOBOS
AS AN AGRICULTURAL AND MANDAYA
ERA USHERED INTOOF MINDANAO
THE LIFE OF -THE
MOROS OF LAKE
EARLY LANAO
FILIPINOS,
DED AS WANDERERS, HUNTERSAND
- NEGRITOS
SOWING CROPS FOROF BUKIDNON AND
SUSTENANCE NORTHCENTRAL
ENABLED THEM TOMINDANAO
SET UP -PERMANENT
BAGOBO OF
FARMERS PRACTICING THE SLASHAND
DAVAO
SHELTERS. - MANDAYA
HAVING - BILAAN
DEVELOPED - LLONGOT
MORE ADVANCED TOOLS, NATIVES WOULD
BURN AGRICULTURE. THELEAN-
TOISASINGLE-PITCHED STRUCTURE OF TYPICALLY BUILD HOUSES THAT WERE “PREDOMINANTLY RECTANGULAR IN
GRASS SHAPE” THAT WERE “BUILT ON STILTS TO ALLOW THE HOUSE TO BE
ORTHATCHONWOODBRANCHESFRAMIN TRANSPORTED”, AN EXAMPLE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE COUNTRY.
G WITH THE LOWER ENDRESTING ON PERHAPS ONE COULD SAY THAT THESE WERE THE EARLY HOUSE AND LOT FOR
THE GROUND ANDTHE UPPER END SALE. MOREOVER, NATIVE FILIPINOS WENT ON TO SHAPE EVEN THE LAND
SUPPORTED BYWOOD POSTS. AROUND THEM AS WELL, LIKE THE IFUGAO CARVING OUT THE RICE TERRACES.
 

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