AMERICAN COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE

American Colonial Architecture

Colonial infrastructure were built to facilitate different ventures, especially in public health and sanitation

Foreign Styles and Influences

-Colonial Revival Mission

-Neoclassicism

-City Beautiful Movement

Colonial Revival Mission

use of clay roof tiles, adobe, concrete, stucco, gabled roof, round arch entrances, arcades, corridors and mirador towers

Neoclassicism

Revival of using Greek and Roman orders as decorative motifs

Capitol of Pangasinan

- Supervised by Ralph Harrington Doane, Consulting Architect

Philippine General Hospital

-Manila , by William Parsons

Urban Planning

Proposed Ideas of organized comprehensive urban planning based on the principles of the City Beautiful Movement

Formulaic Elements

-A civic core

-Wide radial avenues

-Landscaped promenades

-Visually arresting panorama

Daniel Burnham

Proposed plans for the development of Manila and Baguio

Improvements in Sanition

-Cubeta

-The Sanitary Barrio

-Tsalet

Cubeta

"Pail System"

Way of introducing the concept of toilet among the dwellers of the bahay kubo

The Sanitary Barrio

"Neighborhood concept"

Nipa Houses Built on highly regulated blocks of subdivided lots.

Tsalet

A tropical features of vernacular buildings combined with hygienic structural principles and modern materials that gave a premium to light ventilation, and drainage.

constructed of wood or ferroconcrete.

New Materials And Systems

-Use of steel-framed skeleton construction, reinforced concrete (ferroconcrete), and concrete hollow blocks

-Khan Truss System

-Prefabricated components and Precast concrete

-Adaptation of standardized plans and modularized system for buildings

Gabaldon Schoolhouses

Lelevated floor: huge windows with capiz shutters, classrooms

opening to a hallway adjecent to an open area

Davao Municipal Hall

Left pic.

Calape Municipal Building

Right pic.