History of Architecture 3

1st Semester SY 2016-17First Day Orientation

Grading SystemActivitiesSchedules

Ar. Ronald John Dalmacio, uap m_archHD

• Sir Ron• SR• “Siiiiiiiiiiiiir!”

Grading System• Final Grade – 25%• Midterm Grade – 15%• Plates – 15%• Activity – 12%• Reporting – 10%• Prelim Grade – 10%• Assignments – 8%• Attendance – 5%

Prelim Grade• 30%• Activity # 1• Plate # 1• Assignment # 1• Assignment # 2

• 70%• Prelim Examination

Midterm Grade• 30%• Assignment # 3• Plate # 2• Activity # 2

• 70%• Midterm Examination

Final Grade70% - Final Examination

20% - Plate # 3, Assingment # 4, Assignment # 5, Plate # 4

10% - Pre-Final Exam (Activity # 3)

Total Grade• Final Grade – 25%• Midterm Grade – 15%• Plates – 15%• Activity – 12%• Reporting – 10%• Prelim Grade – 10%• Assignments – 8%• Attendance – 5%

Schedule

July

August

Asian Architecture

Course Objectives (School ver.)At the end of the course, the students should be able to:1. Understand the mutual reinforcement of culture and architecture reflected in the thoughts of the times.2. Gain sufficient insights in the history of human community with special emphasis on the structures built in Asia.3. Understand the contribution of the past architectures in the development of high tech utilities and construction systems.

Course Objectives (Sir Ron ver.)1. “space” differentiate “form”,

2. Understand the word “precedence”

3. How Asian architecture’s “precedence” evolved thru space and form

4. Understanding lessons in HOA3 is crucial to our local identity (Filipino Architecture)

Assignment # 1

Why do I Exist?

Humans are born to live. from the moment you are thrown into the universe you breathe, eat, drink, procreate. It is what we do as living organisms.

But why would one procreate, let alone find a reason to stay alive without something to stay alive for?

Humans don't stay alive for the sake of survival, But rather for the sake of things that bring purpose: religion, art, music and love. in an endless oblivion of darkness and space, humans are the only species primitive to care. you must do what you love.

The best things in life will always end in conflict. That is why humans are primitive. – E.T.

Victor Hugo

Hunchback of Notre Dame

He pauses the narrative to “Philosophize the ancient significance of Architecture”,

From the beginning of time, he says, cultures of the earth wrote their thoughts with rock.

Victor HugoLater on, they made words; they placed stone upon stone, they coupled those syllables of granite, and attempted some combinations. The Celtic dolmen and cromlech, the Etruscan tumulus, the Hebrew galgal, are words.

Some, especially the tumulus, are proper names. Sometimes even, when men had a great deal of stone, and a vast plain, they wrote a phrase. The immense pile of Karnac is a complete sentence.

The traditions had given birth to symbols, under which they disappeared like the trunk of a tree under its foliage. And the rock symbols had need to expand into a structure.

Victor HugoThe Hunchback of Notre DameBook V, Chapter II

Architecture developed concomitantly with human thought.

Reflected by the great styles of the era.

Locked into the walls of these temples, palaces, and churches a civilization could launch what it knew into the future,

Confident that only the greatest upheavals and natural disasters might dislodge it from the earth.

- Nerdwriter1 (2015)

The advent of printing press changed everything!

In printed books ideas found an even more durable “capsule” for transmission into posterity (all future generations of people);

One that cost far less to produce and one that could be copied and sent across the world

The rise of the printing press mirrors the decline of architecture as the dominant aesthetic force.

- Nerdwriter1 (2015)

Western Architecture

• Survive

• Brag/ Indulge

• Rule-the-world

• Rational

• Standardization

• Science (Causality)

Eastern Architecture

Hazrate-Masomeh’s mosque in Qom, IranThe Shwezigon

Goju-no-to Pagoda, Miyajima Lingxiao Pagoda of Zhengding, Hebei

Menakshi Temple, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India Hindu temple Spires (Shikhara, Vimana)Vijayanagar in Karnataka

Materials (per group)• Folder • Tooth Pick • 8.5x11" Styro • Cyno or Superglue

• Scale model maker

• Presentor

Instructions

1. SCALE MODELS WILL BE DONE in class. All models done before June 25 will be invalidated.2. For 2 hours do your scale models using only the materials provided above,3. Use all the principles you learn/ know/ remember from HOA 24. After 2 hours all groups will present their models5. Dialogue will start after each presentation6. Points will be counted from all valid points answered from the dialogue

Fin.