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The Elizabethan era saw growing prosperity, and contemporaries remarked on the pace of secular building among the well-off. The somewhat tentative influence of Renaissance architecture is mainly seen in the great houses of courtiers, but lower down the social scale large numbers of sizeable and increasingly comfortable houses were built in developing vernacular styles by farmers and townspeople.
Varying Austronesian architecture existed althroughout Southeast asia including what would later become the Philippines. These varying styles exist within different Austronesian ethnic groups but what they have in common is the used of organic materials, Thatch roofings and are often raised above by posts or stilts to avoid floods.
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Elizabethan architecture — a style of English Renaissance architecture during the Elizabethan era (1558–1603). See also the preceding Category:Tudor architecture and the succeeding Category:Jacobean architecture
Several public buildings and parks designed by Parsons are a hybrid of colonial architecture and that of the Philippines, which is a tropical country. Such designs also adopted the use of local material, such as hardwoods and capiz shells for window sash in place of glass to reduce sunlight glare (see Capiz-shell window). [7]
19th-century religious buildings and structures in the Philippines (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "19th-century architecture in the Philippines" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
There was a conglomeration of factors that led to the presence of Baroque elements in the architecture of the Philippines, specifically in church architecture. During the Spanish colonial period (1565–1898), Spanish missionaries arrived, sharing not only their religion but also their architecture, inspired from their native land.