Folk Architecture by Rodrigo D. Perez III, Rosario S. Encarnacion, and Julian E. Dacanay, Jr.
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When I picked up Folk Architecture by Rodrigo Perez III, Rosario Encarnacion, and Julian Dacanay Jr., I thought I’d be leafing through a catalogue of old houses. What I found instead was a reintroduction to the everyday—bahay kubo, rice granaries, bridges, mosques—treated with the gravity usually reserved for cathedrals and palaces.
The book insists these structures are not primitive but ingenious: built from bamboo, nipa, and stone, designed for floods, typhoons, and heat, and passed down as collective knowledge rather than individual genius. A nipa hut becomes not a “simple hut” but an architectural solution, just as an Ifugao house on carved beams or a Visayan dwelling with lattice walls speaks volumes about resilience and adaptation.
What stays with me is how it makes you see these buildings differently. They are not just shelters but philosophies on balance, community, and survival.
Book Details
Book Details
Author(s): Rodrigo D. Perez III, Rosario S. Encarnacion, and Julian E. Dacanay, Jr.
Publisher: GCF Books
Publication Year: 1989
Condition: Good
Cover: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 9789719146728
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