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Explore Philippine Architecture and History

Take a deep dive into the rich tapestry of Philippine architecture and cultural history with our engaging quiz! Covering a range of topics from historic buildings and architectural movements to influential figures in Philippine education, this quiz is designed to challenge your knowledge and expand your understanding.

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Significant architectural styles in the Philippines
Historic landmarks and their origins
Influential movements and educational programs

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The first building of the government to be executed entirely of reinforced concrete

Malacañang

Fort Santiago

Old Legislative Building

Insane Ward at San Lazaro

Noted for the architecture inspired from the bahay kubo and bahay na bato

Coconut Palance

Gabaldon School Buildings/ Gabaldons

Paco Train Station

Capitol Building

Was a five-story structure that displayed a Neoclassic facade, with a colonnaded ground floor, arched central portal, and divided, two-arched Florentine windows typical of a multistory Italian Renaissance palazzo

Masonic Temple (1913) in Escolta

Un-built Capitol Building in Manila

Manila City Hall (1941)

Agriculture Finance Building (1934)

The scholarship program that begins in 1903 permitting Filipino students to pursue university education in the United States

DOST Scholarship

Pensionado Program

CHED Scholarship 1994

GSIS educational subsidy program

Was bred in the Beaux Arts tradition and was a Neoclassist and sought to enhance the quality of public buildings as well as increase the richness of ornamentation and articulation for the most significant structures

George Corner Fenhagen works

Carlos A. Baretto

Antonio Toledo

Ralph Harrington Doane

Was the first recipient of the pensioned program scholarship for architecture

Carlos A. Baretto

Tomas Bautista Mapua

Miguel Lopez De Legaspi

George Corner Fenhagen

Was most popular from the 1920s to the 1930s (through in the Philippines, its popularity extended to the early 1950s), and used simple, stylized forms, linear motifs, zig-zags, lightning bolts, and geometrical patterns

Beaux Arts

Postmodernism

Art Deco

Deconstructivism

May have originated from the west, but the Philippines as an English-speaking Neo-colonial state that is thrust into context of globalization could not remain for long unaffected by the impact of this cultural and philosophical movement or trend

Deconstructivism

Art Deco

Postmodernism

Beaux Arts

A movement of postmodern architecture which appeared in the 1980s, giving the the impression of the fragmentation of the constructed building characterized by absence of harmony, continuity, or symmetry

Decontructivism

Postmodernism

Industrial

Beaux Arts

A late 19th-century--early 20th century neoclassical style imported from the United Stated and Europe

Art Deco

Beaux-Arts

Postmodernism

Neo-Vernacular

Built at the terminus of a newly laid boulevard fronting a semicircular Plaza Dilao, the building could be read as an ideological statement of the "White Man's Burden" frame of mind with the deployment of four garlanded American eagles surmounting the main cornice above the central motion the building facade

Manila City Aquarium (1912)

Paco Train Station (1914)

Parson's University Hall

Ateneo De Manila

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