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    The document discusses the architecture style known as Bahay na bato in the Philippines. It was popular among the elite classes in the 19th century when they built fine houses across the archipelago. This style integrated characteristics of native nipa huts with Chinese and Spanish influences. It used stone materials and was employed for convents, schools, and other buildings during Spanish colonization and later under American rule. After World War 2, its use declined with the rise of modern architecture. Today these structures are commonly called ancestral houses.

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    The document discusses the architecture style known as Bahay na bato in the Philippines. It was popular among the elite classes in the 19th century when they built fine houses across the archipelago. This style integrated characteristics of native nipa huts with Chinese and Spanish influences. It used stone materials and was employed for convents, schools, and other buildings during Spanish colonization and later under American rule. After World War 2, its use declined with the rise of modern architecture. Today these structures are commonly called ancestral houses.

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    The document discusses the architecture style known as Bahay na bato in the Philippines. It was popular among the elite classes in the 19th century when they built fine houses across the archipelago. This style integrated characteristics of native nipa huts with Chinese and Spanish influences. It used stone materials and was employed for convents, schools, and other buildings during Spanish colonization and later under American rule. After World War 2, its use declined with the rise of modern architecture. Today these structures are commonly called ancestral houses.

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    It was popular among the elite or middle-class, and integrated the characteristics of the nipa hut with

    the style, culture and technology of Chinese and Spanish architecture. The 19th century was the
    golden age of these houses, when wealthy Filipinos built fine houses all over the archipelago.

    The same architectural style was used for Philippines' Spanish-era convents, monasteries, schools,
    hotels, factories, and hospitals, and with some of the American-era Gabaldon school buildings, all
    with few adjustments.[3] This architecture is still used during the American colonization of the
    Philippines. After the Second World War, building these houses declined and eventually stopped in
    favor of post-World War II modern architecture.
    Today, these houses are more commonly called ancestral houses, due to most ancestral houses in
    the Philippines being of Bahay na bato architecture.
    Though the Filipino term Bahay na bato means "house of stone", these houses are not fully made up
    of stone; some are even dominated more by wooden materials, and some more modern ones use
    concrete materials. The name got applied to the architecture as generations pass by, because it is
    the first dominant house architecture in the Philippines that uses stone materials contrary to its
    predecessor Bahay kubo, which are fully made of organic materials. [3]
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    Vega Ancestral House Spanish colonial-era nipa mansion, a "Proto-Bahay na bato style" house in Poblacion, Balingasag,
    Misamis Oriental Mindanao Philippines
    Precolonial Philippine architecture is based on the traditional stilt houses of the Austronesian people
    of Southeast Asia. The first buildings during the early years of Spanish occupation were of wood and
    bamboo, materials with which the pre-Hispanic indigenous Filipinos had been working expertly since
    early times known as Bahay kubo (later named by the Americans as "nipa hut"). Bahay kubo's roofs
    were of nipa palm or cogon grass. In its most basic form, the house consisted of four walls enclosing
    one or more rooms, with the whole structure raised above ground on stilts. Its resemblance to a
    cube earned its description in Spanish, cubo. Clusters of these wooden houses clearly were
    predisposed to fire.[3]

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