The complexity of the situation we find in Santiago

When we talk about urban enviroment (more if you´re related in someway with architecture) , we usually think in urbanism , and how through this we can solve most of the problems characteristics in cities.Today more than a half of the humankind lives in cities and maybe in 30 years in future most of the planet will live in urban area, for this reason and even since 60´s early 70´s the urban planning has been a topic very frequent in the study of the cities.

Peter Calthorpe an urbanist talks about 7 principles for building better cities,specifically livable , one of the facts that he metion is that the problems that he experiment day after day , are produce by us , our behavior.The sprawl and the low-rise buildings in the periphery of the metropolitan city is making that many people going to be segregated in a physical and economic way just like what we see today in Santiago with the respective problems that involves like long times of travel to go form one point to another in the city , the segregation begins to be more agresive when all the people who lives in the city don´t have the same opportunities for live in the cities , many people dont have public transportation near to home , or services or green areas .

I'm agree with the fact of assume the commitment and the challenge to make the city a place for live better and colaborate to make of it a place with the same opportunities for all , that is to say democratic.

My Career

                                                 Why I decide study architecture


Some years ago i heard that the father of a friend was architect , but honestly I didn’t know anything about what it means .I knew that architecture was a career where is very important study art history , draw and make buildings but not much more than that.

Later when I was in the high school i had to do a presentation of the government of the popular unit and that was the moment when I meet to Miguel Lawner , I read an article in the newspaper “The Clinic” and was very exciting for me learn about the motivations of Miguel with the society and more specifically with the most vulnerable people . I realized that architects can do a lot for the society and for make the cities more equitable places.


 I choose the University of Chile because was the first school of architecture in Chile , has a long trajectory in this specific area and in my opinion the education here is more pluralistic , without religious dogmas and a state University , something very important for me , i’m very happy to be here.

Experience using Blog

I think that have been using the blog in the English class has a lot of benefits for our grammar and for our way to express what we think in the different topics of we talk. In the beginning I used to spend a lot of time thinking in what write and a lot more typing the letters in the keyboard, but now it’s really easier for me think quickly in English and then transcribe.

If I think in how much my writing skills have developed, I can say that constantly I'm learning new things and new ways to express one idea in a little few of words, the better part is when we review some sentences misspelled and there we have the opportunity of see our own mistakes, the most part of the time I think that the sentences doesn't have mistakes! So I learn much about it. In the future I would like to add other resources like videos or audios for show more about our daily life in an interactive way. Thinking in what else I would like to write about I would like write about books, because all the people have a favorite one and that can be interesting.

Remembering Hobbies

About my Hobby...

The last summer I used to do slackline ,because I had a lot of free time in my holidays  I started to do it because one day I went to a Sports Center with the purpose to do some sport . So I meet Juan Pablo that was my teacher of slackline , slackline is about balance you need to keep always a good posture and your view on the horizon while you are walking or balancing along a suspended length of flat webbing that is tensioned between two anchors. In this hobby you need to be really focus because when you are a beginner you lose the balance easily.

What I really enjoyed doing slackline was that it has a lot of benefits for your body and for your mind, for example helps you to

get a better straightening the spine and you could do it literally anywhere , preferably outdoor . I hope return in my winter holidays or in summer to do this hobby I remember that in something like two weeks I achieved advance very much indeed.

Favourite Subject

Every Tuesday at 8:30 am I go to my History, culture and habitat class.

 The course talks about what means architecture and how it has been develop along the history of the humanity, the class is ,in my case , in a normal classroom and the most part of the time teachers make you talk , to share what do you think or how you can make architecture in some little acts at day like I did the last May 28^th where I have to be architectural guide of “Palacio de los Tribunales de Justicia “ so that day I have been explaining to the people that this palace was built in the century of our country and has a particular design inspired in the old Greek culture , where the main buildings use columns Doric –Ionic . Other topics that we see in architecture are the different ways that architects use to project , like for example with Andrea Palladio born a new way of built based in values like , firmness (firmitas), utility (utilitas) , and beauty (venustas) he explains that in her book “I quattro libri dell'architettura “ ( the four books of architecture). I think that is a complete subject because all that we learn we can apply later in our workshop 

Let's talk about a person that I admire

Miguel Lawner Steiman is a chilean architect , he studied in University of Chile , was executive director of the Corporation of Urban Improvement during the government of the Popular Unit of Salvador Allende , until 1973 , then during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet he was detained and imprisioned in Isla Dawson until their liberation and exile in Denmark.One of the most important projects that i know about Miguel is the development of social housing in differents parts of Chile
in special one of them located in Las Condes and is named Villa San Luis . When i began to investigate about that i saw the architecture like a powerfull social tool and change agent , in special Villa San Luis represent that we have to work together and share with the different social classes , the poor persons don't should be displaced to the periphery of our cities only for don't count with money necessary for a good living place , we have to include them even live near because we need each other , Miguel in their construtions search that , make us all part of the same city so in the future i pretend to work with that ideas too and make of the city a place with more comunities in their living ways.

Absence...

This blog will begin with the explanation of why I don`t went to my English class the last 25^th of May. Well how all the students of my faculty knows we have a very big social conscience so the Wednesday 24^th  of May there was a kind of vote to decide if we will go to the strike, so at the final of that day the decision of go to stroke was the most voted. As we all know when there’s a stroke nobody can be in class but in my case I had to present a big model of the area of Mercado Central  and Cal y Canto station  , so that day I was working on my project for get a good mark , I started to work with my group the Wednesday  , some of us don’t sleep , we spend more than one and a half day in the classroom B26 , at the final of the revision the teacher give us just a 3,5 so we were very sad for that .

I uploaded a picture of my model , don't was too bad... what do you think?

Llanquihue Lake

I choose this picture of internet because reminds me a picture that my old sister took at the same place some years ago in 2007. This peninsula is named Centinela and it´s near to Llanquihue Lake a big lake in the south of Chile in the X region of Osorno . The picture shows the lake and a wonderful background in wich appears the Osorno Volcano. We went there for holidays with my father , my sister Bárbara and my brother Joaquín . Was a very special moment for me beacuse was raining a lot those days and we were in a camping so we have some problems with the water but that doesn't prevent us to enjoy a great experience , the better part of my travel was when the rain stopped and we went out to walk aroun the peninsula , so we see many beautiful landscapes with a lot of nuances of violet , light blue , and even pink in the sky . Since 2007 i don't go back to Centinela so my dream is some summer get back and see how has changed the penisula and explore seeing a lot of vegetation and swimming in the crystalline water of that Lake.

Films that makes you reflect: "Full Metal Jacket"

Year released: 1987

 Awards:

-1988 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
    [Best Director ; Stanley Kubric] ,  Best supporting actor (R. Lee Ermey),

-David di Donatello Awards : Best Producer , Foreign Film

Story/Ploy :

 A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. After having their heads shaved, they meet Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, who employs forceful methods to turn the recruits into hardened, combat-ready .The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, now a sergeant, is a war correspondent in South Vietnam Joker(January 1968,), covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.

Characters/actors:
                Matthew Modine           ...            'Joker' Davis
                    Adam Baldwin              ...           Animal Mother
              Vincent D'Onofrio            ...            Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence
                       R. Lee Ermey             ...            Gny. Sgt. Hartman (as Lee Ermey)

Opinion: Full Metal Jacket is a film that somehow show us how is the mentality of an American  soldier but in a historic context , The Vietnam War . We can see clearlythe transition of typical citizen to a Killing machine,literally, and a big change at mental level. The film shows American soldiers proud of his nation and with a big internalized nationalism who see in the massacre of Vietnamese folk a favor for the good of mankind.

Why is this film important?
It is because shows how the war and its consequences are so devastating, both for winners and losers , other thing that is interesting is the way that the film can expose the fragility of life , companied by  notable soundtracks  .

My favourite piece of technology

This gadget is very entertaining and vintage , some years ago my brother Joaquin give it to me I remember that I was in my room and he ask me : "what do you think about Soda Stereo?" so I answer that I really like the Argentinian rock.

This device must be used in a table or a firm surface, has a square base and a thin arm with a little peak in the end of that in the center of this square I put an medium or large circle , if I don’t have this circle I can’t use this gadget .

I enjoy every time that I can spend time in this gadget and many other people can join to me at the same time.

Why I chose architecture

When I was a child I wanted to be a lot of things.In first place I wanted to be a scientist because I always been interested in investigation of our nature and some chemicals , I usually thought in have my own lab and make chemical reactions, that was until I get 11 or 12 years old, before that i began to dream with be an actress because i feel atractted for the drama and theater world , thinking in the possibility of become in anything that you want , maybe a villain , or some mythical character like Julliet , knowing better the feelings or emotions of the humans, and using your emotions for entertain people . When i was 15 years old i started to think that work like actress is really difficult beacause you have less opportunities that the rest of professionals in the job's world and if you don't work in hollywood it's hard to begin in a recognized actor . Before thoose professions  i follow the medical area , thinking that maybe been a psychiatrist would be my future major , studying the human behavior and some mental diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder , psychosis , depression and so on , working in mental hospitals or with teenagers in Sename centers of our country . Psychiatrist was a very good option for a long time but i started to feel that it would be very difficult get into a good university , like University of Chile to study medicine , and get a really good score in the PSU ( test for admission to university). So i started to search in webpages and did online test , always think in areas that I am good and and I like too , so that's how i finally read a reportage in a newspaper of a chilean architect Miguel Lawner and a great building that he made "Villa San Luis" in Santiago , Chile. I begin to investigate more about the architecture , what is it , in what work in the future and know the greatest architects in the world , Le Cobuisier , Mies Van Der Rohe , Schulz . So i feel haunted for this profession , because has a lot of drawing and you can develop all your crativity in every minute that you are learning in a classroom or even walking for the streets .
Actually I'm studying Architecture in University of Chile , it's my first year and in future i intend continue studying in other country like France or London , maybe come back to Chile to work in some public area or in my own projects .