GUESSING

GAME
1 UNIVERSITY OF STO. TOMAS
Espana Avenue, Manila

CULTURAL CENTER OF THE

PHILIPPINES
Complex Pasay
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE
PHILIPPINES

HENRY SY SR. HALL, DE LA SALLE

SAN MIGUEL CORP. BUILDING UNIVERSITY
Ortigas Center, Mandaluyong Taft Avenue, Manila
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At the end of this lesson, you can answer the following questions:

WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE?
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS OF ARCHTECTURE?
WHAT ARE THE MEDIUM AND ELEMENTS USED?
WHAT ARE THE EXAMPLES OF ARCHITECTURE?
WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ARCHITECTURE TO US?

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DEFINITIONS & ORIGIN:
– comes from the Latin word “ARCHITECTUS” and Greek word
“ARKHITEKTON” which means master builder.
- Art of designing and constructing building.
- A general term to describe buildings and other physical structures
- The art and science, or the action and process, of designing and
constructing buildings.

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MEDIUMS
WOOD
• Common building material.
• Advantages: abundance, relative
durability, and high tensile and
compressions strength.
• Disadvantages: easily destroyed by
moisture, insects, and fire.
• Plywood: improved the structural
possibilities of wood; stronger than
any known material.

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STONE

- Materials used when permanence is

desired.

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CONCRETE
• Made of sand and gravel mixed with
cement.
• High compressive strength
• Doesn’t crumble or breakdown when
subjected to heavy weight
• Does not corrode and is fire resistant
• Stronger: ferro-concrete or reinforced
concrete (reinforced with steel)

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STEEL
• Tough alloy of iron in variable amounts
• Malleable under proper condition and greatly
hardened by sudden cooling
• Tensile strength
• Made possible the building of the high-rise
structures which are very popular this days
• Materials used and the methods of assembling
them are among the factors contributing to
architectural style.

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ELEMENTS
AXIS
The balanced distribution and
arrangement of equivalent
forms and spaces on opposite
sides of a dividing line or
plane, or about a Centre or
axis.

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SYMMETRY
An axis is an imaginary line
formed by two lines in the
space about which structures
can be achieved. Axis can be
horizontal, vertical or inclined.

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RHYTHM
Refers to a harmonious
sequence of pattern of
repetition of elements
usually consisting of
alternating voids,
alternating colours, etc.

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HIERARCH
Y Refers to the placement of the
structures in the order of their
importance. In architecture
hierarchy is commonly seen as a
practice of giving rise to the parts
of a structure in the order of their
importance.

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DATUM
A datum refers to a line, plane, or volume of
reference to which other elements in a
composition can relate. It organizes a random
pattern of elements through its regularity,
continuity, and constant presence.
To be an effective ordering device, a linear
datum must have sufficient visual continuity.
If planar or volumetric in form, a datum must
have sufficient size, closure, and regularity.

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FUNCTIONS
SIGNIFICANCE
OF
ARCHITECTURE
 FAMOUS
ARCHITECTURE
(LOCALLY AND
INTERNATIONALLY)