Theory of Architecture QI

- the flow of natural energy in Feng

ANDREA PALLADIO
Shui that circulates the earth and
- most influential Italian
moves in specific pattern on a site
Renaissance architect in the history
TRADITIONAL FILIPINO BELIEFS
of Western Arch.; author of four
- Doorways should not face each
books of Architecture
other; place coins in the foundation
DE RE AEDIFICATORIA (THE ART
for prosperity; never use materials
OF BUILDING)
that once belonged to a church
- a classical architectural treatise
NORMAN FOSTER
written by Leon Battista Alberti and
- a British architect who became a
was the first printed book of
knight in 1990 and considered
architecture in 1458
Britains most prolific builder of
ELEMENT OF CIRCULATION
landmark office buildings
- Approach, Entrance, Configuration
FRANCISCO MANOSA
of Path
- was proclaimed National Artist
THEORY
for Architecture by the virtue of
- Descriptive Theory, Critical
Executive Order 236
Theory, Prescriptive Theory
PROXEMICS
BASIS OF PROPORTION
- introduced by anthropologist
- Material Proportion, Structural
Edward T. Hall in 1966 which the
Proportion, Manufactured
study of set measurable distances
Proportion
between people as they interact
BAUHAUS
PASSIVE COOLING
- a socialist movement in
- system using building design and
architecture, developed into a
construction to maintain a
school by Walter Gropius in
comfortable temperature for
Germany
building occupants
ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE
STACK EFFECT
- Frank Lloyd Wrights philosophy
- the tendency of air to rise when
that architecture must not be an
heated
alien feature of the natural
LOUIS KAHN
landscape but must be a natural
- Form is what, design is how
element of a site
REM KOOLHAAS
PETER BEHRENS
- Dutch architect, Pritzker Prize
- a German architect who was
awardee in 2000, designed a
considered the first industrial
proposal for a barcode-inspired
designer in history
European flag and whose work
NEW YORK FIVE
includes the massive CCTV
- Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves,
Headquarters; headed a S,M,L,XL
Charles Gwathmey, John Hedjuk,
publication, a 1376-page tome
Richard Meier
containing essays, manifestos,
NEW URBANISM
diaries, fiction, travelogues, and
- an urban design movement which
meditations on the contemporary
promotes walkable neighborhoods
city
that contain a range of housing and
EPHRAIM OWEN GOLDBERG
job types
- birth name of Frank Gehry
 CHARLES EDOUARD JEANNERET make prominent use of the color
- birth name of Le Corbusier white
LOUIS SULLIVAN IEOH MING PEI
- leader of the Chicago School - Geometry is the key to all
movement; Form follows function architecture
TEN SECTIONS/BOOKS ERGONOMICS
- number of sections/books does - human engineering
De Architectura of Marcus Vitruvius POGGIO BRACCIOLINI
Pollo contain - humanist philosopher who
RATIO rediscovered the de Architectura in
- relationship between two or more 1414
similar things KEN YEANG
PHILIP JOHNSON - Malaysian architect who promotes
- 1st Pritzker awardee in 1979 the Bio-Climatic Theory
TOMAS MAPUA FERRERA
- 1st registered architect in the - considered as the first modern
Philippines city when it was redesigned by
ILDEFONSO P. SANTOS Italian architect and urbanist Blagio
- National Artist for Landscape Rossetti in 1848
Architecture FLORENCE
CARLOS ANTONIO SANTOS- - a star-shaped city designed to
VIOLA resist cannon fire
- The chief designer of the Gothic UTOPIANISM
architecture inspired Iglesia ni - a belief that planning is most
Cristo kapilyas effective when it proposes
NOTEWORTH ACHIEVEMENT OF sweeping changes that capture
2OTH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE public imagination
- Skyscaper, Metal Frame CONCENTRIC THEORY
Construction, Non-Load Bearing - a theory by Burgess wherein city
Curtain Wall grows from center to form cities
WILLIAM LE BARON JENNEY RATIONALISM
- designer of the 1o storey Home - Neue Sachlichkeit in German term
Insurance Building which was COMPONENT FOR CITY
considered as the 1st ever built PLANNING IN THE LAWS OF THE
skyscraper INDIES
JOSE MARIA ZARAGOSA - Pueblo, Presidio, Mission
- architect of Meralco Building in EBENEZER HOWARD
Meralco Avenue, Pasig City - father of landscape architecture
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER and author of Tomorrow: A
FULLER Peaceful Path to Social Reform
- More with less ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE - considered as the center of
- Less is more development in the neighborhood
ROBERT VENTURI unit concept by Clarence Perry and
- Less is bore; American Clarence Stein
architect, whose rationalist building
 LE CORBUSIER so that most children can walk from
- author of The Cities of home
Tomorrow CHARACTERISTIC OF PLANNING
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT IN THE PHILIPPINES DURING
- conceptualized Broadacres, THE AMWERICAN PERIOD
wherein 1 acre is for a single family - valued sanitation, valued housing,
unit in US valued aesthetic improvements
STALINGRAD COMMONWEALTH ACT NO. 457
- an example of a planned linear - Quezon City was the new capital
city of the Philippines
CONURBATION SAMPALOC, MANILA
- a neologism coined by Patrick - 1st university town in the
Geddes which means the inflow of Philippines
population, build-up and backflow CHARACTERISTIC OF A CITY (RA
EKISTICS 1760)
- the science of human settlements - at least P20M local government
by Constantine Doxiadis in 1942 income, at least 10,000 hectares of
BRASILIA land area, at least 150,000
- constructed between 1956 and population
1960, it was considered as the LAW ON EMINENT DOMAIN
most prominent example of an - the sovereign power to acquire
entire modern city properties
BROKEN WINDOWS THEORY CITY
- a theory argues that small - imaged by pathways, districts,
indicators of neglect, such as edges, landmarks and nodes
broken windows and unkempt IAN MC HARG
lawns, promote a feeling that an - author of the book Design with
area is in a state of decay Nature
SEASIDE SIXTEEN CITIES
- the first fully new urbanist town, - cities the Metro Manila composed
began development in 1981 on as of 2010
eighty acres of Florida Panhandle QUEZON CITY
coastline - most populated city in Metro
ELEMENT OF NEW URBANISM Manila
- the neighborhood has a WOHA DESIGNS
discernible center, there are a - proposed a masterplan to keep
variety of dwelling types, an Singapore safe from rising sea
elementary school is close enough levels while shrinking the
ecological footprint of the country
to the size of the island