“…bahay kubo… is pinoy architecture about the form? the facade? the physical aspect? or would be within the behavioural aspect of the occupants?…”
hmm… lets see… ill try to perk up that certain part of our thinking and make it running just a little bit more than it already is. maybe, if we push a little bit more of what we already have in mind then maybe, we can come up with something.. and something better for the benefit of architecture and most of all of our own.
frank lloyd wright was the one to give name to what american architecture is (or was?. he INVENTED it by inventing the prairie house. he defined american architecture for the americans and for the world. how? he studied the behavioural aspect of the typical american family.
what does this have to do with us being filipino architects. how about defining our behavioural aspect as well.
bahay kubo… is pinoy architecture about the form? the facade? the physical aspect? or would be within the behavioural aspect of the occupants. financial aspect will certainly be of great consideration. availability of LOCAL materials will be another. climate also.
bahay kubo before because we were farmers. behavioural aspect was there, financial aspect was there, availability of local materials was there.
today.. even farmers no longer live in a bahay kubo. meron na lang bahay kubo sa tupana, sa palayan. pansamantalang pahingahanng mga magsasaka. but where do they RESIDE? they have a better house. better in the sense that its a little bit stronger than the bahay kubo.
there is beauty in a bahay kubo.
but there is also another side to a bahay kubo. pardon me if you will, but doesn’t a bahay kubo mean poverty? the bahay kubo was bornout of poverty. i thnk i would be right to assume that no farmer of today would forever want to live in a bahay kubo for the rest of his life. he dreams of a better life perhaps not of his anymore but of his children’s.
today.. who are most of these children? it is a fact that a rapid number of youngsters are turning out to be call-center agents. how is bahay kubo suitable for them?
another one.. those that are a little bit older than the yougsters are who? OFW’s. they’re number are also rapidly growing. this is even the main reason why residential condominium buildings are rising inthe metropolis.
i believe architecture is defined by the needs of the time, and that is why any civilization is best described by its architecture. architecture is built on the premise of the need of current situations. i think mr. leandro locsin gave that to us.
architectural progress also relies on the present and upcoming materials and of course… technology.
i would like to believe that what the filipinos need for our kind of architecture of today depends on what we are now and what we want to be in the near future.
like language, architecture constantly changes.
why were there bahay kubo and ifugao huts?
because we were once farmers and hunters.
this farmer has no financial means to put up a sturdier kind of dwelling and so he opted to use what he has from his surroundings. nipa, bamboo, coconut tree and rattan to tie them up.
once this certain farmer, through his hard work, earned a little more than he used to, will improve on his bahay kubo little by little. and up until he sent his child to school and finishes up a course and finds a job, you’ll find that his bahay kubo once has now concrete hollow block soccalo walls.
not the same case in the batanes though. the literally described bahay na bato is… because of we all know what - year-round typhoon.
what was filipino architecture?
our ancestors brought them to us
what is filipino architecture, what it will be?
i think its up to us and the younger ones to best describe them for the whole world… like sir leandro locsin did
my point of view is this… to define what philippine architecture is is to know who we are and what we are… then…now…and tomorrow.
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pamamahayag ng isang malaya at matayog na kaisipan lamang po. munting pagbabahagi tungo sa progresibong pamumuhay.
let’s think progressive. not regressive.
mabalos!
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very expressive, analytical, and artistic form of dissecting Filipino architecture….