Summary About Architecture

2. WHAT IS THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF ARCHITECTURE?
 Architecture is an art.
WHAT IS ARCHITECTURE?
Since the needs of different periods in
history varied, different architectural
styles evolved.
 is to fulfill a need that lead to its creation..

3. STYLE
• The style must accommodate and express the function of
the structure.
• It must also address the future.
• It must also be able to provide for functions which are
unknown at the moment of the construction.

4. FACTORS AFFECTING ARCHITECTURE
• Materials used
• Methods used in assembling the materials
• Availability of material
• Durability and beauty

5. MATERIALS
• Stone and wood have long been used in architecture.
• Brick has also been in use from very early times.
• Concrete was known and extensively used as early as the roman period.
• Other materials like glass and plastic materials are also used by
architects today.
Lintel
Post
Post-and-lintel
- consists of two vertical
posts for support (post) and a
horizontal one (lintel)

6. • The arch is dominant in roman
architecture. It is an architectural
form built from pieces of wood
called voussoirs with joints
between them and are arranged
in a semicircle.
• Cantelever is any structural part
projecting horizontally and
anchored at one end only.
voussoirs

7. MOST COMMON MATERIALS USED IN ARCHITECTURE
• Wood
It’s advantage
- abundance
- relative durability and high tensile and
- compression strength
Disadvantage
- easily destroyed by moisture, insect and fire.

8. • Stone
- is the material used in most of the great architecture of the
world where permanence is desired.
• Concrete
- is a building material made of sand gravel mixed with cement.
- high compressive strength
• Steel
- is a tough alloy of iron in variable amounts.
- It is malleable under proper conditions and greatly hardened by
sudden cooling.