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The Rizal Shrine in Calamba is an example of bahay na bato.. Báhay na bató (Filipino for "stone house"), also known in Visayan languages as baláy na bató or balay nga bato, and in Spanish language as Casa de Filipina is a type of building originating during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines.
General Aniceto Lacson House, popularly known as Casa Grande. General Aniceto Lacson Ancestral House, is a fine example of a bahay-na-bato built in the 1880s. It's balcony has a panoramic view of the surrounding hacienda, as well as having its own chapel at ground level. He is the brother of Domingo Lacson Sr. and Don Mariano Lacson; Tana ...
Bahay kubo, a type of stilt house indigenous to the Philippines especially in rural areas. Developed by the exchange of ideas within different ethnic groups of the christian lowland Filipino population from ancestral knowledge originated from the prehispanic Austronesian architecture , it integrated with the new Christianized lifestyle of ...
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. African
The house was built around the 1800s and was owned by Jose Alberto Alonzo. [1] The house is noted for its connection to the family of José Rizal. Alonzo is the father of Rizal's mother Teodora Alonso Realonda. Biñan is where Realonda would spend her teenage years and where she would meet Rizal's father Francisco Mercado who lived in a house ...
A large bahay kubo with walls made of thatch, c. 1900. The Filipino term báhay kúbo roughly means "country house", from Tagalog.The term báhay ("house") is derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay referring to "public building" or "community house"; [4] while the term kúbo ("hut" or "[one-room] country hut") is from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kubu, "field hut [in rice fields]".
The dominance of the Church over everyday life was expressed in grand spiritual designs which emphasized piety and sobriety. The Romanesque style was simple and austere. The Gothic style heightened the effect with heavenly spires, pointed arches and religious carvings. [2]
The Good Building Design and Construction in the Philippines is a handbook developed in cooperation with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), UNDP Regional Center in Bangkok, and the Secretariat of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. [1]