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1
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A cistern storage of collected rainwater underneath the azotea of bahay na bato

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ALJIBE

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2
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In Egyptian architecture, the tomb of the pharaoh is the_____

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PYRAMID

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3
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The great pyramid at Gizeh was built during the 4th dynasty by ________

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Cheops

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The beginner of the great hypostyle hall at Karnak and the founder of 19th dynasty

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Rameses I

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5
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The mineral of greatest importance to Greek architecture of which Greece and her domains had ample supply of _____

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MARBLE

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6
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Greek Architecture was essentially

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Columnar and Trabeated

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7
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Forming the imposing entrance to the acropolis and erected by the Architect Mnesicles is the _______

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PROPYLAEA

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8
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The building in the acropolis generally considered as being the most perfect building erected ________

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PARTHENON

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9
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With the use of concrete made by possible by pozzolan, a native natural cement, The Romans achieved huge interiors with the ________

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ARCH AND VAULT

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10
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Which of the order was added by the romans to orders used by the Greeks?

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COMPOSITE

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From the 5th century to the present, the character of byzantine architecture is the practice of using ______

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DOMINICAL ROOF CONSTRUCTION

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12
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The finest and remaining example of Byzantine Architecture

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St. Sophia, Constantinopole

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13
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The architectural character of the Romanesque Architecture

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SOBER AND DIGNIFIED

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Romanesque Architecture in Italy is distinguished from that of the rest of Europe by the use of what material for facing wall

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MARBLE

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15
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The most famous and perfect preservation of all ancient building in Rome

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PANTHEON

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16
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The space between the colonnade and the naos wall in Greek temple is _____

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PTEROMA

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17
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Ampitheaters are used for

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GLADIATORAL CONTESTS

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18
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Ancient Greek Portico, a long colonnaded shelter used in public places

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STOA

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19
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The fortified high area of citadel of an ancient greek city

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ACROPOLIS

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20
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An upright ornament at the eaves of tile roof, concealing the foot of a row to support the ornament, more usually, the ornament itself.

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ACROTERION/ACROTERIUM

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21
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Also called honeysuckle ornament

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ANTHEMION

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In ancient Greece, and Rome, a storeroom of any kind, but especially for storing wine

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APOTHECA

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23
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The characteristics of Greek ornament

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ANTHEMION

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24
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The use of _______ for facing walls distinguishes Romanesque architecture in Italy from that of the rest of Europe

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MARBLE

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25
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The outstanding group of Romanesque is found in

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PISA

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26
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The dining hall in a monastery, a convent, or a college

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REFECTORY

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27
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The architecture of the curved line is known as

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BAROQUE

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28
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The open court in an Italian palazzo

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CORTILE

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29
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The ornamental pattern work in stone, filling the upper part of a Gothic window

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TRACERY

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30
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Japanese Tea House

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Cha-sit-Su

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31
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A muslim temple, a mosque for public worship, also known as place for prostation

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MASJID

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32
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Dominical mound containing a velic

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STUPA

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33
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Ifugao House (southern strain)

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BALE

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34
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In mesopotamian architecture, religion called for temples made of sun dried bricks

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ZIGGURAT

35
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The style of the order with massive and tapering columns resting on base of 3 steps

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DORIC

36
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Tomb of the Pharaohs

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PYRAMID

37
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Earthen burial mounds containing upright and lintel stones forming chambers for consecutive burials for several to a hundred persons

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TUMULI

38
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A semi-circular or semi-polygonal space, usually in church, terminating in axis and intended to house an altar

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APSE

39
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temples in Greece that have a double line of columns surrounding the naos

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DIPTERAL

40
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Senate house for chief of dignitaries in Greek Architecture

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PRYTANEION

41
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Architect of Einstein Tower

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ERICH MENDOLSOHN

42
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Founder of the Bauhaus School of Art

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Walter Gropius

43
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Architectural term is termed to be free form from any historical style

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ART NOVEAU

44
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Architect of Chrysler Building in New York

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WILLIAM VAN ALLEN

45
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Another term for crenel or intervals between merlon and embattlement

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EMBRASURES

46
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Taj Mahal temple is located in

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AGRA,INDIA

47
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In the middle kingdom, in Egyptian architecture, who consolidate the administrative system made a survey of a country, set boundaries to the provinces, and other helpful works

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AMENEMHAT I

48
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Who erected the earliest known obelisk at Heliopolis

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SENUSRET I

49
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Jubilee festivals of the Pharaohs

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HED-SEB

50
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The world’s large scale monument in stone

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PYRAMID OF ZOSER

51
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The highest sloped Pyramid in Gizeh

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PYRAMID OF KHUFU

52
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A vault created when two barrel vaults intersect at the right angles

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GROIN VAULT

53
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Sarimanok is a decor reflecting the culture of the

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VISAYAN

54
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Caryatid Porch is from what architecture

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GREEK

55
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Female statues with basket serve as columns _______

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CANEPHORA

56
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a small tower usually corbelled at the corner of the castle

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BARTIZAN

57
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a hall built in Roman Empire for administrative of justice

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BASILICA

58
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Parthenon is from what architecture

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GREEK

59
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a roof in which 4 faces rests diagonally between the gables and converge at the roof

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HELM ROOF

60
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a compound bracket or capital in Japanese architecture

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MASU-GUMI

61
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A concave molding approximately quarter round

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CAVETTO

62
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architect of Iglesia ni Cristo

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Carlos Santos-Viola

63
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A Filipino architect whose philosophy is the “the structure must be well oriented”

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CAESAR HOMER CONCIO

64
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what is not required as a feature in modern muslim mosque

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PINNACLE

65
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architect of Robinson’s Galleria

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WILLIAM CONCUELLELA

66
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Major contribution of Romanesque architecture

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BAROQUE FORM ORNAMENTATION

67
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” A house is like a flower pot”

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RICHARD JOSEF NUETRA

68
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richly carved coffins of Greece & Mesopotamia

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SARCOPHAGUS

69
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King Zoser’s architect who was deified in the 26th dynasty

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IMHOTEP

70
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council house in Greece

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BOULEUTERION

71
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Elizabethan Architecture is from what Architecture

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US/ English RENAISSANCE

72
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Art Noveau style first appeared in what structure

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TASSEL HOUSE

73
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A faced without columns or pilaster in renaissance architecture

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ASTYLAR

74
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Art Noveau is known as the international style, in Germany it is known as

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JUGENDSTILL

75
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Less is More

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DE ROHE

76
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Embrasures

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CRENEL

77
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First school which offered architecture in the Philippines

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LICEO DE MANILA

78
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Formal architecture one of the principles of composition

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BALANCE

79
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Different historical styles combined

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ECLECTICISM

80
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Architect of the TWA airport

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EERO SAARINEN

81
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The falling water by Frank Lloyd Wright is also known as

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KAUFMAN HOUSE

82
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First President and founder of PAS

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JUAN NAKPIL

83
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Modern architecture need not to be WESTERN

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Kenzo Tange

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