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PRE HISTORIC History of Architecture 1

The document discusses pre-historic architecture from the Stone Age periods including Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic eras. It outlines the key structures of this time including natural and artificial rock caves used as dwellings, tents and huts made of organic materials, and religious monuments such as menhirs, dolmens, and cromlechs which were made of piled or arranged stones. Burial mounds in the forms of tumuli or barrows were also constructed as places for burials during the pre-historic period.

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PRE HISTORIC History of Architecture 1

The document discusses pre-historic architecture from the Stone Age periods including Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic eras. It outlines the key structures of this time including natural and artificial rock caves used as dwellings, tents and huts made of organic materials, and religious monuments such as menhirs, dolmens, and cromlechs which were made of piled or arranged stones. Burial mounds in the forms of tumuli or barrows were also constructed as places for burials during the pre-historic period.

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PRE-HISTORIC

History of Architecture 1

Archt. Lexphil John B. Rgael


Instructor
History of Architecture- The history of architecture is a record of
man’s effort to build aesthetically. It traces the origin, growth and decline of
architectural styles or periods which have prevailed lands and ages.

INFLUENCES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF


ARCHITECTURE
The factors affecting the particular design of structure starting from planning
to walling, columns, openings, roofing, mouldings and ornaments such as:

A. GEOGRAPHICAL
B. GEOLOGICAL
C. CLIMATIC
D. RELIGIOUS
E. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
F. HISTORICAL
PRE-HISTORIC STRUCTURES
OBJECTIVES:
1. To trace the development of prehistoric architecture
2. To know the different prehistoric structures
3. To identify the remaining architectural examples of the pre
historic period.

CULTURAL STAGES
I. STONE AGE
A. Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)
B. Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age)
C. Neolithic (New Stone Age)
Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)
Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age)
II. BRONZE AGE
4000 TO 3000 BC
III. IRON AGE
25 TO 50 YEARS BEFORE JULIUS
CEASAR
FOUR CONSTRUCTION PRINCIPLES

1. POSTAND LINTEL (TRABEATED)


2. ARCH AND VAULT
3. CORBEL AND CANTILIVERED
4. TRUSSED
THREE CLASSIFICATIONS OF EARLY
KNOWN TYPES OF ARCHITECTURE

1. DWELLINGS
2. RELIGIOUS MONUMENTS
3. BURIAL MOUNDS
1. DWELLINGS

A. ROCK CAVE-EARLIEST FORM OF


DWELLINGS
1. Natural Cave
2. Artificial Cave
3. Cave above the Ground
1. NATURAL CAVE
2. ARTIFICIAL CAVE
3. CAVE ABOVE THE GROUND
B. TENTS AND HUTS- Made from tree
barks, animal skins and plant leaves.
3. RELIGIOUS MONUMENTS
Two Classifications of Religious
Monuments
A. MONOLITH-isolated single upright
stone also known as “MENHIR”.

MENHIR-Memorial of victory over one


tribe.
B. MEGALITHIC- Several number of stones.
1. Dolmen- 2 or more upright stones supporting
a horizontal slab.
2. CROMLECH- 3 or more upright stones
capped by an unhewn flat stone, indicates
places of religious rites.
STONE ROW- made up of 3,000 stones
spaced upright. (STONEHENGE)
BURIAL MOUNDS
A. Tumuli or Barrows- earthen mounds use
for burials or several to a couple hundred
of ordinary persons. Prototype of pyramids
in Egypt and of the beehive huts.

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