Filipino Architecture: Designing Beyond Form

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Designing Beyond Form It’s interesting how we have a lot of different types of architecture now mixed, merged and created into fusions of these styles depending on various people’s perceptions and views on things. It’s that different reaction and response to a certain type of architectural style or basically of anything that makes one automatically unique from another and these reactions are rooted deeply in the culture and beliefs encompassing people’s lives. The HTC subject has been constantly influencing and teaching its students on various types of architectural styles emerging from different kinds of races, nationalities, continents, etc. It taught me how there is no such thing as a “pure culture” as all these belief systems and traditions are interrelated and are influenced by each other. All types of architectural styles that are adaptable and suitable to the needs of the Filipinos and our culture can be called as influences to our own type of architecture. Architecture acts as a representation of an identity not only through the literal structures seen but the feeling of visibility and experiences it gives off. Even in Indo-Islam Architecture, principles such as the Vastu Shastra, a traditional Hindu science of design and construction also strongly takes into account not only the physical but the spiritual health and prosperity existent and being embodied by these structures, which can only be achieved through the careful study of the people’s identity and culture. Other Asian or eastern architecture such as Chinese architecture exhibit strongly what kind of culture these people have even at a distant not only because of the oriental forms seen through these structures but the essence of the experience and strong feeling of rich culture and tradition. It is clear how the Chinese strongly supports and believes in mythical concepts specifically what is

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