History of Architecture

Considered as the 1^st skyscraper in the Philippines

• Brise soleil

• Picache Building

• Aqueduct

• Pyramids

In mastaba, a small room for offerings

• Serdab

• Gargoyle

• Tholos

• Cloaca Maxima

Ancient Roman sewage system

• Cloaca Maxima
• Aqueduct

• Via Appia
• Ken

Largest and best-preserved beehive tomb.

• Dhunge Dhara

• Nave

• Tholos

• Romanesque

An external arched support for the wall of gothic cathedrals, enabled builders to put very tall but comparatively thin stone walls.

• Entasis

• Flying buttresses

• Trefoil

• Florence cathedral

Crowning member of a flying buttress helping to counteract the lateral thrust of the vault.

• spire
• gargoyle
• flying buttress
• pinnacle

Single upright stone with an average height of 9 meters, oriented in parallel from east to west

• Obelisk
• Cairn
• Dolmen
• Menhir

A slight convex curve in the shaft of a column, introduced to correct the visual illusion of concavity produced by a straight shaft.

• Entasis
• Expansion
• Curvature
• Elongation

Fortified settlements (without doors, where people access from the roofs)

• Igloo
• Teepee
• Yurt
• Catal Huyuk

Architectural character: sober and dignified

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

• Romanesque

• Roman Temple