Architect: Location: Number of Floors: Height

FAMOUS SKYSCRAPERS
1. Taipei International Financial Center

2003
Architect: Cy Lee and Partners
Location: Taipei, Taiwan
Number of floors: 101
Height: 502 meters
2. Lotte World 2 Tower

2005
Architect: Baum Architects
Location: Pusan, South Korea
Height: 465 meters
3. Asia Plaza
2008
Architect: uknown
Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Height: 431 meters
4. Shanghai World Financial Center

2004
Architect: Shimizu Corporation / KPF
Location: Shanghai, China
Height: 420 meters
5. 2 International Finance
Center
2003
Architect: Cesar Pelli and Associates
Location: Hong Kong, China
Height: 400 meters
6. Fairwell International Center
2003
Architect: Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum
Location: Xiamen, China
Height: 397 meters
7. Nina Tower
2003
Architect: uknown
Height: 319 meters
8. BDNI Center
Architect: I.M. Pei and Partners
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Height: 317 meters
GREAT BUILDINGS
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EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE
(circa 1200 BC – AD 1st Century)
Temple of Luxor
 or Southern Sanctuary at Luxor, Egypt, 18th
dynasty king
 dedicated to Amon-Re, king of the Gods
 built of sandstone for the quarries of Gebel Silsila
Abu Simbel
 dedicated chieftly to Re-Harakhti, God of the
rising sun
 built during the reign of Ramses II (1304 – 1237
BC)
Pyramid of King Zoser
Architect: Imhotep
 earliest pyramidal structure of the ancient
world, the Step Pyramid (c.2630 BC) of King
Zoser at Saqqara, Egypt
 consist of six terraces of receding sizes with a
one staba
The Great Pyramid

 the Pyramid of Khufu is the largest in the
world, measuring 230m (756 ft)
GREEK ARCHITECTURE
(circa 300 – 30 BC)
Parthenon
447-438
Architect: Itchinus and Callicrates with Phidias
Location: Athens, Greece
Style: Ancient Greek Doric
 on the historic Acropolis. Doric exemplar
Erechtheum
421 – 405
Architect: Mnesicles
Location: Athens, Greece
Style: Ancient Greek, Ionic
 has Caryatid Porch with figural columns. On
the Acropolis, uses grade change.
Epidaurus Theater
Architect: Polykleitos
Location: Epidauros, or Epidhavros, Greece
Style: Ancient Greek
 and the quality of its acoustics make the
Epidaurus theatre one of the great architectural
achievements of the fourth century.
 the largest and best preserved ancient theaters
in Greece.
 can accommodate 14,000 spectators.
ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
(300BC – 365 AD)
The Pantheon
118 - 126
Architect: Acrippa
Location: Rome, Italy
Style: Ancient Roman
 great domed hall with oculus
oculus – a single circular opening
 one of the great spiritual buildings of the world
 it was built as a Roman temple and later
consecrated as a Catholic Church
 revived the use of brick and concrete in temple
Architecture
Trajan’s Forum
100 – 112
Architect: Apollodorus of Damascus
Style: Roman
 composed of an arc of arched arcade
 most magnificent and architecturally most pleasing
 largest known forums
Colosseum
70 – 82
Architect: Vespacian and Domitian
Style: Ancient Roman
 three-quarter columns and entablatures, Doric in
the first story, Ionic in the second, and Corinthian
in the third, face the three tiers of arcades
 largest Roman Amphitheater
 designed to hold 50,000 spectators
 had approximately eighty entrances so crowds could arrive and leave easily and
quickly
AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE
White House
Architect: James Hoban
Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: 1793 to 1801, burned 1814, porticos 1824
to1829
Style: Georgian Neoclassical
 official residence of the president of the United
States of America, for the last 200 years
Capitol of the United States

Architects: Thornton-Latrobe-Bulfinch
Date: 1793 to 1830
Style: Neoclassical
 meeting place of the U.S. Congress, the
national assembly of the United States of
America, consisting of the House of
Representatives and the Senate
National Gallery of Art
Architect: John Russel Pope
 houses one of the finest collections of painting,
sculptures, and graphic arts in the world
Washington Monument
Architect: Robert Mills
Style: Neo-Egyptian
 the obelisk is the only remnant of the original
blue print that remains
 with George Marsh, competition 1836.
standard Egyptian proportion of 10:1 height to
base
University of Virginia
1826
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Building Type: University campus
Style: Classical, Neo-Palladian
 ideas of symmetry and use of brick
 arcades connect buildings around central lawn
 curving brick walls surround campus
Massachusetts State House

Architect: Charles Bulfinch - first native-born professional American architect
 classical elements are pilasters, porticos and domes
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral

Architect: James Renwick
Location: New York
 shaped like a Latin cross
 the largest Roman Catholic Cathedral in the United States
 designed in a Gothic Revival materials at English and French Gothic Style
Connecticut State Capitol
Architect: Richard Upjohn
Monticello
1768 to 1782
Architect: Thomas Jefferson
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia
Building Type: House
Style: Colonial Georgian
 Remodeled1796 to 1808
 beautiful hilltop home is a classical example of
the late 18th Century American architecture
and a national historic landmark
New York City Hall

Architect: Pierre L’enfant
Style: French Renaissance - Georgian Style
 one of the most historical architecturally distinguished building in New York
Fallingwater
1934, 1938, 1948
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Location: Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
Building Type: house
Style: Expressionist Modern
 cantilevers dramatically over rock outcropping and rushing stream
 sends out free-floating platforms audaciously over a small waterfall and anchors
them in the natural rock
Guggenheim Museum
1956 to 1959
Location: New York, New York
Building Type: art museum
Style: Modern
 a gift of pure architecture—or rather of
sculpture
 based on organic forms that the architect
found in seashells and snails
Coonley House
1908
Location: Riverside. Illinois
Style: Prairie style
Building Type: house
Construction System: wood frame with
stucco
 a large, sophisticated prairie house
Ennis House
1923
Location: Los Angeles, California
Building type: house
Style: Deco Modern
Construction system: bearing masonry, concrete
blocks
 the last of the four Los Angeles textile block
house
Johnson Wax Building
1936 to 1939 and 1944
Location: Racine, Wisconsin
Construction system: precast concrete and brick
Style: modern
 unique structural expression in open hall, tower with rounded corners
 the tower is totally enclosed and does not allow for horizontal expansion of work
space
 articulated by dendriform columns capable of supporting six times the weight
imposed upon them, a fact Wright had to demonstrate in order to obtain a building
permit
Larkin Building
1904, demolished 1950
Location: Buffalo, New York
Building Type: commercial offices
Construction system: brick masonry
Style: Early modern
 large four-storey central atrium
 the first entirely air-conditioned modern office
building on record
Wingspread
1937
Location: Wind Point, Wisconsin
Building type: large house
Style: neo-Vernacular
 living room, dining room, kitchen, family
sleeping rooms, guest rooms, were separate
unites grouped together and connected by
corridors
Golden Gate Bridge
1933 to 1937
Architect: Joseph Strauss
Location: San Francisco, California
Building type: suspension bridge
Construction system: steel frame, steel cables
Styles: Structural Modern with some Art Deco
details
 one of the longest bridge in the world
 a powerful and elegant human structure in an
equally beautiful natural location
 overall bridge length of 9266 feet, or 2824
meters
 bridge main span length of 4200 feet, or 1280 meters
FRENCH ARCHITECTURE
The Louvre
1546 to 1878
Architect: Pierre Lescot
Location: Paris, France
Building type: palace, art museum
Construction system: cut stone bearing masonry
Style: French Renaissance
 also designed by Catherine de Medici, J.A. du
Cerceau II, Claude Perrault, etc.
 I.M. Pei: design the glass pyramid, which
serves as the main public entrance
Tuileries
 the Tuileries Garden of Paris is part
of the Triumphal way, which begins
at the Louvre and continues to the
City’s Western edge
Palais Royal
 commissioned by Cardinal Richeliev
 original name is Palais Cardinal
 17th century
 Daniel Buren: stripped columns
Sacre-coeur
 located at the hill of Montmartre which is the highest point in the city of paris
 1874: Paul Abadie
 1910: completed by Lucien Magne
Hotel de Ville
 largest renaissance building
 16th and 17th century
 Italian designer Domenico de Cortona
 1871: burned, renovated in 2 years
Arc de Triomphe
 Napoleon, the French emperor decided to build
a very big arch of triumph, which stands at the
top of the Champs Elysees
Pompidou Centre
1972 to 1976
Architect: Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano
Building Type: modern art museum
Construction system: high-tech steel and glass
Style: High-tech modern
 a cost of $100,000,000, with an average
attendance of approximately seven million
people a year
 massive structural expressionist cast
exoskeleton, "exterior" escalators enclosed in
transparent tube
Notre Dame de Paris

1163 to 1250
Architect: Maurice de Sully
Building Type: church, cathedral
Construction system: bearing masonry, cut
stone
Style: Early Gothic
 one of the most celebrated Gothic cathedrals in
France
 twin towers marking the entrance
 probably the most famous image in French Gothic art
Paris Opera House

1857 to 1874
Architect: Charles Garnier
Building type: theater, opera house
Construction system: masonry, cut stone
Style: Neo-Baroque
 polychrome façade, opulent staircase
 commission by competition
 masterpiece of 19th century architecture
 one of the largest and most opulent theaters in the world
 false ceiling painted by Marc Chagall
Elysee Palace
1718
Architect: Claude Mollet
 official residence of the president of France
Hotel de Invalides
 Napoleons tomb is within the structure
 founded by Louis XIV for disabled soldiers
 late 17th century
La Madeleine
Architect: Napoleon I
 church of Ste. Marie Madeleine
 constructed as a church in 1842
 surrounded by 52 Corinthian columns
Sorbonne
 most famous building at the University of Paris
Chartres Cathedral
1194 to 1260
Location: Chartres, France
Building type: cathedral
Construction system: bearing masonry
Style: Gothic exemplar
 the elevation was in three tiers as it had no
gallery and the vaulting was quadripartite, which
eliminated the need for alternating supports
 supreme monument of High Gothic art and
architecture
Amien’s Cathedral
1220
 145 meters long
 largest French Gothic Cathedral ever built
 intricate façade completed during the 15th century
Rheims Cathedral
 one of the greatest monument of Gothic art and
architecture
 construction commerced by Jean d’Orbais and
was completed by Robert de Coucy
 a work of remarkable unity and harmony
Eiffel Tower
1887 to 1889
Architect: Gustave Eiffel
Building Type: exposition observation tower
Construction system: exposed iron
Style: Victorian Structural Expressionist
 dominates the sky line of Paris
 one of the most famous landmarks in the world
 built for the Paris Exposition of 1889
Notre dame du Haut

1955
Architect: Le Corbusier
Location: Ronchamp, France
Building type: church
Construction system: reinforced concrete
Style: Expressionist Modern
 soft-form composition, deep windows with
colored glass (wall thickness 4' to 12')
 Le Corbusier’s dramatic pilgrim church
Villa Savoye
1928 to 1929
Architect: Le Corbusier
Location: Poissy, France
Building type: house
Construction system: concrete and plastered unit masonry
Style: modern
 an early and classic exemplar of the "International Style", which hovers above a
grass plane on thin concrete pilotti, with strip windows, and a flat roof with a deck
area, ramp, and a few contained touches of curvaceous walls
GERMAN ARCHITECTURE
Burgtheater
1874 to 1888
Architect: Gottfried Semper with Karl von
Hasenaver
Berlin Opera House

(STAATSOPER)
Architect: Georg Wenzeslaus von
Knobelsdorf
Wurzburg Residenz
Architect: Balthazar Neumann
 one of the best structure of the Baroque-
Rococo period
Einstein Tower
1919 to 1921
Architect: Erich Mendelsohn
Location: Potsdam, Germany
Building type: laboratory, observatory
Construction system: bearing masonry, concrete over
brick
Style: Expressionist Early Modern
 curvaceous, streamlined form
 designed to hold Einstein's own astronomical
laboratory
 this 'sarcophagus of architectural Expressionism' is
one of the most brilliantly original
buildings of the twentieth century
ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE
British Museum
1823 to 1847
Architect: Sir Robert Smirke
Location: London, England
Building type: art and historical museum, library
Construction system: masonry, cut stone
Style: Victorian Ionic façade,
Classical Revival
 Includes one of the world's great library rooms. Glazed roof over restored
courtyard by Norman Foster
Salisbury Cathedral
1220 to 1258
Location: Salisbury, England
Building type: Cathedral (church, temple)
Construction system: bearing masonry, cut stone
Style: English Gothic
 Cathedral of Saint Mary
 an outstanding example of the Early English
architectural style
 tallest in England 404ft (123m)
 use of Purbeck marble to create a strongly coloured
scheme
Queen’s House
1616 to 1635
Architect: Inigo Jones – the greatest of English Classical
architect
Location: Greenwich, England
Style: Palladian, Late English Renaissance
 was built by Jones for Anne of Denmark, wife of
James I
Somerset House
1776 to 1786
Architect: William Chambers
Building type: government offices and art school
Construction system: cut stone masonry
Style: Neoclassical
 Home of Royal Academy of the Arts. Corinthian orders
above arched courtyard apertures, rusticated base
Saint Paul’s Cathedral

1675 to 1710
Architect: Sir Christopher Wren
Construction system: masonry, brick, timber and cut
stone
Style: Late renaissance to Baroque
 the dome peaks at 366 feet above pavement
 a masterpiece of Baroque architecture
 largest cathedral in England
Chiswick House
1729
Architect: Lord Burlington
Location: Chiswick, England
Style: Palladian
 also known as ―Burlington House‖
Westminster Palace
1836 to 1868
Architect: Sir Charles Barry
Location: London
Building type: seat of government, government
center
Construction system: cut stone bearing
masonry
Style: English Gothic Revival
 Big Ben: the clock tower best known is a
great symbol of London
 originally seat of kings as a royal residence
Glasgow School of Art

1897 to 1909
Architect: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Location: Glasgow, England
Building type: college
Style: art and crafts, art nouveau
 imaginative synthesis of elements of Art Nouveau and Scottish Architecture
Durham Cathedral
1093 to 1280
Location: Durham, England
Building type: church, cathedral
Construction system: bearing masonry, cut stone
Style: Romanesque
 one of the most impressive Norman Romanesque
style in Europe
 had a reciprocal influence on the architecture of
Normady
 the rib vault covering of Durham Cathedral is the
oldest example that has survived
Buckingham Palace
Architect: sir George Goring
 built during the reign of king James I
CHINA, TURKEY, ITALY, INDIA AND SPAIN ARCHITECTURE
Temple of Heaven
Location: China
 700 acre enclosure built by the Ming
Dynasty emperor Yongle (Yung-Io)
 means ―Perpetual Help‖
Hagia Sofia
532 to 537
Architect: Isidoros and Anthemios
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Style: Byzantine
 a tremendous domed space
 built as the new Cathedral of
Constantinople by the Emperor
Justinian
 a masterpiece of Byzantine
architecture
 additional minarets when the church became a mosque
Cathedral of Siena
Location: Southern Italy
 incorporated Gothic elements in a
strongly Mediterranean design
Pisa Cathedral
103 to 1350
Location: Pisa, Italy
Building type: church complex
Construction system: bearing masonry, cut stone,
white marble
Style: Romanesque
 "Pisa Cathedral with Baptistery, Campanile and Campo Santo, together form one of
the most famous building groups in the world
 the cathedral complex includes the famous Leaning Tower, La Torre Pendente
 white marble with colonnaded facades
Florence Cathedral
1296 to 1462
Architect: Arnolfo di Cambio
Location: Florence, Italy
Building type: domed church, cathedral
Style: Italian Romanesque
 1296: Cathedral begun on design by Arnolfo di
Cambio
 1357: Project continued on a modified plan by
Francesco Talenti
 1366-7: Talenti's definitive design emerged
calling for an enormous octagonal dome
 1418: competition for construction of dome.
 1420: technical solution for vaulting proposed by Brunelleschi approved and
construction begun
 The Duomo – dome added by Brunelleschi
 1436— church consecrated
Krak des Chevaliers

1150 to 1250
Location: Syria
Building type: fort
Style: Medieval
 crusader castle
 the best preserved and most wholly
admirable castle in the world
Alhambra
1338 to 1390
Location: Granada, Spain
Building type: palace
Style: Moorish (Islamic)
 palace of Nasrid Dynasty
 the most beautiful remaining example of
Western Islamic Architecture
 built as a cathedral in the mid-1200’s
 ―hall of justice‖: noted from its elaborate stalactite (maqarnas) decoration
Casa Batllo
1905 to 1907
Architect: Antonio Gaudi
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Building type: apartment building
Construction system: concrete
Style: Expressionist or Art Nouveau
 uses animal styles al through-out the
structure
Casa Mila
1905 to 1910
Building type: multifamily housing
Construction system: masonry and
concrete
Style: Art Nouveau
 expressionistic, fantastic, organic
forms in undulating facade and roof line
 light court
 it could be compared with the steep cliff
walls in which African tribes build
their cave-like dwellings
Sagrada Familia
1882 to 1926
Construction system: masonry
Style: Expressionist
 Church of the Holy Family
 uncompleted during Gaudi’s lifetime
 crowned by four spires
Taj Mahal
1630 to 1653
Architect: Emperor Shah Jahan
Location: Agra, India
Building type: Islamic tomb
Construction system: bearing masonry, inlaid
marble
Style: Islamic
 onion-shape domes, flanking towers,
built for wife Mumatz Mahal
 located on the Jumna River
 museum for Mogul emperor’s consort
PHILIPPINE SKYSCRAPERS
1. PB Com Tower
2000
Architect: Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM)
Location: Makati
Height: 241 meters
2. Petron Mega Plaza

(Mega World Plaza)
1999
Location: Makati
Height: 200 meters: roof
210 meters: pinnacle
3. BSA Twin Tower
1999
Architect: unknown
Location: Mandaluyong
Height: 197 meters
4. G.T. International Tower

2001
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox & Associates and
Recio Casas
Location: Makati
Height: 181 meters
5. Robinson’s Equitable Tower
1998
Architect: HOK
Location: Pasig
Height: 175 meters
5. ICEC (LKG) Tower

1999
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox & Associates and
Recio Casas
Location: Makati
Height: 175 meters
6. Pacific Plaza Tower 1 & 2
1999
Architect: ARQUITECTONICA
Location: Makati
Height: 174.20 meters
7. Roxas Triangle 1 & 2

2000
Location: Makati
Height: 174 meters
THE SKYSCAPERS
- tallest to smallest
- antenna, radio communications, etc. are not
included
1. Petronas Tower
1997
Architect: Cesar Pelli & Associates
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Height: 452 meters
2. Sears Tower
1974
Location: Chicago, USA
Height: 443 meters
 still the tallest building if the antennas are
included
 has the highest occupied floors
3. Jin Mao Building

1998
Location: Shanghai, China
 design most refer to the number 8, an auspicious
number for Chinese
4. Plaza Rakyat
2000
Height: 382 meters
5. Empire State Building
1931
Architect: Shreve Lamb & Harmon Associates
Location: New York City, USA
Height: 381 meters
6. Central Plaza
1992
Architect: Dennis Lau and Ng Chu Man &
Associates
Height: 374 meters
7. Bank of China
1989
Architect: I.M. Pei & Partners
Height: 369 meters
8. Emirates Tower I
2000
Architect: NORR Group Consultants Int’l. Ltd.
Location: Dubai, UAE
Height: 358 meters
9. The Center
1998
Architect: Unknown
Height: 350 meters
10. T & C Tower

(Tuntex & Chien-tai Building)
1997
Architect: Hellmuth, Obata &
Kassabaum/Cy Lee
Location: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Height: 347 meters
11. AON Center
(Amoco Building)
1973
Architect: Edward D. Stone & Associates
Height: 346 meters
12. John Hancock Center

1969
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Height: 344 meters
13. Shun Hing Square

1996
Architect: K.Y. Cheung Design Associates
Location: Shenzhen, China
Height: 325 meters
14. Citic Plaza

(Sky Central Plaza)
1996
Architect: Dennis Lau snd Ng Chu Man & Associates
Location: Guangzhou, China
Height: 322 meters
15. Burj Al-Arab Hotel

(Arabia Tower)
1998
Architect: Tom Wright of WS Atkins & Partners
Location: Dubai, UAE
Height: 321 meters
16. Baiyoke Tower 2

1998
Architect: Plan Architect Co.
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Height: 320 meters
17. Chrysler Building

1930
Architect: William Van Allen
Location: New York City, USA
18. Bank of American Plaza

(Nationsbank Plaza)
1992
Architect: Johnson / Burgee Architects
Location: Atlanta, USA
Height: 312 meters
19. Library Tower

(First International World Center)
1990
Architect: Pei Cobb Freed and Partners
Location: Los Angeles, USA
20. Malaysia Telecom HQ

1998
Architect: Hijjas Kasturi Associates / Daewoo & Partners
Height: 310 meters
21. AT & T Corporate Center

1989
Architect: Peter Ellis, SOM
Height: 307 meters
22. Chase Tower

(Texas Commerce Bank)
1982
Architect: Pei Cobb Freed and Partners
Location: Houston, USA
23. Ryugyong Hotel

1995
Architect: Baikdoosan Architects & Engineers
Location: Pyongyoang, North Korea
Height: 300 meters
CHURCH ARCHITECTURE
Instructor: Architect Eva Maria Villanueva
CHURCH ARCHITECTURE
 simple, patterned after early Christian types; either
rectangular or cruciform with simple naves and aisles
 thick walls reinforced with heavy buttresses for earthquakes
protection
 immense sizes because of colonial policy which dictated that a
church should be built for every 5000 baptized
 materials used include: volcanic tuff (adobe), hardened lava,
volcanic ejecta, sandstone, river boulders, clay, corals,
limestone, oyster shells, eggs
SIGNIFICANT EXAMPLES
 PAOAY CHURCH, Ilocos Norte
 built in 1694 by Antonio Estavillo, completed 1702-1710
 façade: rectangular, with arched doorway, four continuous
pilasters alternating with niches
 finials and crenellations at pediment niche at the apex
 huge volutes with low relief lines tracing the contour to
disguise the large buttresses
 VIGAN CHURCH, Ilocos Sur
 finished in 1800
 located within the grid iron planned streets of a
colonial town
 baroque elements include protruding columns and
solid frames; three arched doorways leading to three naves at
the first level, guarded by ionic pillars with chinese fu dogs
 urn-like finial at pediment
 SANTA MARIA CHURCH, Ilocos Sur

 constructed late 18th century, 85 steps leading to
the church was built by Augustinian Benigno Fernandez
 massive brick church perched on a hill
 façade has circular buttresses, three openings and
a blind niche, semi-circular pediment
 TUMAUINI CHURCH, Isabela
 begun 1783-1788 by Dominican Domingo Forto and
town mayor Pablo Sason; 1803-1808 – circular belltower
was completed
 pampango artisans carved the hardwood molds for
the clay insets that decorate the church
 ultra-baroque : unique for its extensive use of
baked clay both for wall finishes and ornamentation
 ornamental details : serpentine reliefs, spiral
curves, flowers, foliage, sunfaces, cherubs and saints
 circular belltower with white limestone finish,
decorated with bright red clay rosettes and festoons
 ANGAT CHURCH, Bulacan
 begun 1756-1773 by Augustinian Gregorio Giner;
completed in 1802 by Fray Joaquin Calvo
 baroque style : coupled Corinthian and Doric
columns divide façade into levels or segments, statues ringed
with wreath-like ornaments flank niches, windows with bas-
relief ―curtains‖
 plain three-storey belltower with balustered top
 BARASOAIN CHURCH, Bulacan

 1871-1878 : stone church was constructed to replace
wooden structure; 1880 – earthquake ruined the church
 1885 : Augustinian Juan Giron commissioned a
builder named Magpayo to rebuild the church
 variation on the circle motif
 flutings on pilasters with ends blunted into semicircles
detract from the NeoClassical
 belltower has a cubic base, three layes accented by
blind and open windows, top has crenellations and six-sided
cone
 SAN SEBASTIAN CHURCH, Manila
 a church built for all times after previous churches
were damaged by earthquakes in 1863 and 1880
 designed in the Gothic style (without flying
buttresses) by Genaro Palacios in Revivalist architecture
 made entirely of steel; plans were sent to Belgium
where the parts were made in sections then transported to
Manila
 interiors were painted to resemble faux marble;
adorned with sculpture by Eusebio Garcia and painting by
Lorenzo Rocha
 SAN AUGUSTIN
CHURCH, Manila
 oldest church in the Philippines; built 1587-1607
by Juan Macias according to the plans approved by the
Royal Audencia de Mexico and by a Royal Cedula
 1854 : Don Luciano Oliver (Municipal Architect of
Manila) directed the renovation of the façade by adding to the
height of the towers; these towers were damaged in the 1863
earthquake and were never rebuilt
 plaza adorned with Fu dogs represents colonial urban
planning
 High Renaissance : superpositioned Tuscan orders at
first level, Corinthian capitals at second level; circular windows
at plain pediment; heavily carved, two-paneled main door with
images of St. Augustine and St. Monica amidst Philippine flora
 nave is flanked by 12 collateral chapels each housing
a Baroque or NeoClassic retablo
 Baroque elements include trompe l’oeil : sculpture by
Italian artists Cesare Dibella and Giovanni Alberoni on the
ceiling and pilasters
 cloisters built around an atrium with a garden planted
by Augustinian botaninst Manuel Blanco
 TAAL CHURCH, Batangas

 1858 : Fray Marcos Anton, with the help of the
architect Don Luciano Oliver, started construction; the
church was completed in 1878
 built on top of a hill and may be reached through
flagstone steps, unobstructed by other buildings
 façade : arched windows alternate with Ionic columns
at first level, Corinthian at upper level; projected cornices and
mouldings; three pediments
 interior is cavernous bur drab with stout piers and
semi-circular apse : mathematical exactness rather than
ornamentation
 DARAGA CHURCH, Albay
 established by people who fled the eruption of Mt.
Mayon form Cagsawa
 the Franciscan wanted a church with the best features
of Romanesque and Gothic, but it was executed by the
carvers in Baroque
 façade : a whole tablet without columns and cornices,
only symmetrically positioned fenestrations, apertures and
niches; whorls, twisted columns, foliage, medallions, statues
and reliefs
 MIAGAO CHURCH, Iloilo
 present church was built 1786-1797 under the
supervision of fray Francisco Gonzales Maximo; a storey
was added to the left belfry in 1830
 also served as fortress against Muslim pirates, simple
and massive structure mixed with ornate details
 local botanical motifs at façade reliefs reminiscent of
cookie cutouts (de gajeta), used to describe 16th century
Mexican architectural reliefs
 SANTO NINO DE CEBU BASILICA, Cebu

 built by Fray Juan de Albarran about 400 years ago,
on the site where a soldier found an image of the Sto. Nino in
a settlement that the Spanish soldiers have burned down
 the Convent was founded in 1565, making it the first
to be built in the country
 constructed with stones from Panay and Capiz
 façade : blending of Moorish, Romanesque and
NeoClassical elements; trefoils on the doorways; two levels
divided into three segments and topped by pediment; retablo
at the center
 belltower has four-sided balustraded dome
 interior : pierced screen with floral motifs, pineapple
decors at the choirloft, corn cobs at the capital

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