QUIZ

Do You Know How to "Go Green"?

I always thought I knew about saving the planet from global warming, but apparently I still have a lot to learn. In the questionnaire I had 70% since there were some solutions or topics on how to take care of the world that I had never heard. For example, interesting elements for making paper, such as panda, hemp and sheepskin excrement. Also the impact of the use or the replacement of objects such as light bulbs, lamps or heating, which could be a way of enviromental saving and care.

What I knew mostly was about how architecture contaminates the environment. Constructive materials of strong CO2 emission, such as the displacement of buildings and also that different spaces with green areas would provide benefits in the health of people, in the city and in the ecosystem.

I think there should be more of this type of questionnaire. Sometimes we do not inform ourselves and this dynamic system would allow all the people to know small data, which are within our reach to be able to change the world little by little. Inform us would let us know the real damage that is causing global warming, irreparable problems could be present in a few years and we must seek all means to stop the phenomenon.

VIDEO 3: An activity you like to do in your free time

English Language Challenges

ENGLISH

In my school, English was never an important subject. Teachers always focused on learning language, science, mathematics, which made my English level go down and I could never move forward. I tried to learn on my own, but it always became difficult for me. When I entered the university that changed. They made us realize that English is a language that, if we dominate, could help us a lot for the rest of our lives. In the labor market, when working and having to communicate with other people.

My experience has been positive, all the teachers that I had were experts and have a good will to teach, very necessary for people like me who have a bad foundation. They have taught us key material to be able to talk about topics of our career, they have perfected us in the pronunciation and they have made us exercise in the grammar. One of the ways to exercise are blogs. Material that I found most beneficial for us. Talking about different topics, which are sometimes complex, helped me a lot to improve my grammar and be able to formulate an opinion better.

The aspects that I would improve from my English are, probably, make more dynamic activities. We have done some but perhaps we are lacking time to talk student to student, make games, exhibitations, etc. In the future I plan to do this by taking English courses, using interactive programs and maybe going in Exchange to other countries and lear it more directly.

In my daily life I am practicing English when I watch movies, series and when I listen to music. To learn English it is necessary to reinforce the language every day and I find that listening to it or reading it while doing the things you like most can have a radical and positive effect.

PERSONAL OPINION

What is your opinion about legalizing marijuana and other drugs?

In my opinion we shouldn´t legalize any drugs. According to scientific studies, marijuana its a gateway to stronger drugs. We should not be giving the liberty to destroy the quality of life of the people. People would in some way test drugs for the naturalness that would be given to them, and we would risk directly affecting the lives of individuals and families.

What is your opinion about the legalization of abortion in the 3 cases?

In my opinion the cases should be more radical. We women have the right to choose for ourselves with our body and 

with our life. The reasons to abort are many and they don´t consider 

that they´re beyond our control. We completely lack the freedom to choose.

What is your opinion about Immigration?

We all have the right to choose where we want to develop our life. And countries should give free access to people who want to live in Chile. Except that they have criminal history and only come to keep commiting crimes. If not, the diversity of culture, language, would be enriching for all.

What is your opinion about recycling?

The world is going through many phenomena that could be very dangerous for people, such as global warming, the greenhouse effect, etc. And I find the strategy that people are beginning to be aware of recycling very good. It could be a great help to avoid these possible changes, protect our environment and change our culture.

VIDEO 2 A job you would like to do in the future

2018 Have you so far had a good year?

"2018"

Taking out accounts, this year has been so much better than the previous one. I´ve been studying architecture for a year already and I was able to gain enough pyschological experience to make everything much easier. I´m more relaxed and happy doing what I like and that its extremely important for me. So let me tell you, architecture is a career that takes away all the free time and where you leave behind many things such as friendship and hobbies, and as much academic load as you can bear.

On the other hand, my family is the most important thing for me and I have a very good relationshop with everyone, I can communicate enough with each one of them, understand their feelings, and viceversa, they understand me and help me too.

As always, there have been bad things. I broke up with my boyfrind of one year with what I have lived during my daily life, I´ve had also a series of discussions with classmates doing work for the career. I´m intolerant of people who don´t work or take advantage on others, but this year I´ve controlled it better. Even so, I love my career so much that I will give that and more to continue focusing as much as possible.

My achievements this year have been absolutely psychological, for example, I´m proud because the past year, 2017, I was a much obsessive and immature person. The university and the different kinds of people made me grow as a person and prepare myself better so that when it happens in the future I will be ready.

I need to do many things right now, first, finishing this academic year, which ends in January. Enroll into a dance academy because I need to do extra activities and lastly, keep sharing with the people I love the most.

Postgraduate Studies

CINEMA AND ARCHITECTURE

A postgraduate course that I would like to do when finishing the degree would be related to the cinema. I find the magic of filmmaking very interesting, and how a screen is capable of doing everything. More than to dedicate myself to it in the future, I would like to have it as a hobby and complement it with architecture.

The subjects that I would like to study is the history of cinematography. Meet filmmakers who have been ahead of their time and films that have changed the whole paradigm of the seventh art.

I also would like to know about movies, series that are based on architecture and urbanism. Knowing how the spaces and the context in the cinema, are fundamental and witness how they are applied in a certain way so that they are so perfect in some scenes.

I would like to go to study to Europe. They are known by having a more realistic cinema, which is usually considered boring, but Europeans make it (and any theme) into a true work of art that makes good use of its cities and beautiful landscapes. The United States would also be an option, they lead the film industry and it would be nice to know what the movement is like in this art.

ARCHITECTURE

MY FUTURE JOB

By the time I enter the world of work, I like to have many challenges. I am a person who would love to know all the architecture specialties, but I have preferences. I mainly like sustainable architecture, patrimony and urbanism. I would like to work in the offices, maybe in some important things, but also work outside the doors, rehabilitate places and investigate the environment.

I would love to travel around the world with my work like architect. Architecture that I love are from another’s country’s like Spain, France, Italy, England. So, if I have the possibility of working there, it would be a great honor.

The salary for me is also an important factor in the place where I want to work. I don´t think how much money I will need in the future, but I asked less to let me live in peace and be able to do things that I like.

I'm in the second year of architecture and I still do not choose a specialty, I'm thinking of taking sustainable architecture, but I'm still not sure, I like them all, which is very good. But this is an architecture, which has been developed, the last years, the future, architecture, sustainability and being able to know more about this area, will be beneficial.

https://www.lsnglobal.com/opinion/article/1116/bjarke-ingels-building-a-pragmatic-utopia

VIDEO 1

TED VIDEO

URBANISM CHANGES LIVES

When I saw the video of the urbanist and architect Peter Calthorpe in

TED, he made me think and reflect on many things on which I totally

agree.

In many parts of the world and in Santiago, we are in a process of urban rehabilitation. Of course, to improve our quality of life and adapt contemporary needs in the best possible way. But sometimes the strategies implemented aren´t the best to make a radical change in the city. The key concept missing in those strategies is: urban design.

It´s fundamental to make a city within human scale, adequate proportions and standards, besides other implementation ideas. Those ideas are: Avoid expansion and marginalization of social strata to the peripheries of the city. This is solved with compact design and densification, changing social inequality by giving them access to services and equipment to all the population.

Public transport in Santiago is an obstacle and measures such as sustainable transport, supporting the use of the bicycle or simply walking should be implemented. But for those measures to work you need a walkable city and have all the necessary tools. 

It´s important to be aware of the huge impact that urbanism can make to our daily lives, we must fight against adversity with it and rehabilitate our city in the best possible way. Serious participation of the people would help us all to change our most urgent urban needs.

"so much depends on how we shape our cities: not just environmental impacts, but our social well-being, our economic vitality, our sense of community and connectedness."

Peter Calthorpe

https://www.gochile.cl/es/tours/bicicleta-maanera-por-santiago.htm

ARCHITECTURE

                                                                 MY CAREER

Sometimes, when I´m working at 5am, I wonder how I can study something as sacrificed as architecture. I think about it and then I realize I could never choose something else. I find that architecture is the only art that really leaves a mark on the quality of life in people. We are able to change the city and change lifestyles. What´s more powerful than that?

I always knew that I wanted to study architecture. Since I was 8, 9 years old, it always caught my attention, but for some reason I do not understand, I started studying arts at the Universidad Católica. I always liked the two careers, but I felt that I had to be in both of them to know which one satisfied me more. I discovered that I preferred architecture. I realized that art does excite people, but that architecture was deeper, towards that and it changed people.

After spending 2 months in art, a classmate in drawing classes told me: hey you draw like an architect! and I told him, DONE !!!, that's the signal I needed !!!

Prepared the PSU and got into the Universidad de Chile, to study architecture. Why the Universidad de Chile? because of the quality of teachers and academic excellence. Apart I like its ideology and the values ​​and the type of people who study here.

It changed my life, I think sometimes sacrificing plans to work, learn, sweat, read, add, mourn, has been worth it, because it is what I like the most and what I want to happily spend the rest of my life.

"IF A BUILDING BECOMES ARCHITECTURE, IT IS ART"

Arne Jacobsen

                                   

THE BEST CONCERT ON EARTH

LONG LIVE ROCK!

I'm a fan of music and I've gone to many concerts. But if you ask me which was the best, I immediately say The Wall.

Rogers Waters after many years without stepping on the country,  returns to play at the National Stadium in 2010, when I was only 14 years old. Former member of Pink Floyd was always one of my favorite bands and also in my opinion a group that changed the music theory.

Before going to the concert I had a very bad time. My dad was going to buy the tickets for us to go together (it's also his favorite band). He arrives at my house and says: Dominique the tickets are over. I was very sad and disappointed, I felt that I was not going to listen to his live music ever.

But a few days later, my dad comes back to the house ... but with the tickets! It was so much the sales success that they decided to make another day of concert. WHAT A LUCK I HAD!

It was incredible. I have never heard such good musicians. They created an atmosphere with the instruments, which was really impressive. Apart from that, the special effects were sensational. Giant dolls came out of a huge wall that could be seen from all over the stadium, a wall that symbolized the whole history of the album "The Wall". It was also very exciting to see all ages and kind of people who were at the concert, there you realized that Pink Floyd is a universal band that changed the lives of many people. It is a memory that I will never forget, as I sing so many songs next to my dad, both enjoying, one of the things that we like the most, seeing the great, unsurpassed, ROGER WATERS!

THE BIG APPLE

                                                New York, a dream to me

For a long time, I have wanted to visit the big city, "New York" in the United States. The architecture and the diversity of the people have been the reasons for my great passion and enthusiasm for knowing this place, which for what I have had is magical and fast.

The first reason is the memorable architecture, many buildings with important stories, that will change this discipline, such as museums, bridges, parks, streets, etc. They change your perspective of architecture and the city.

Another reason is the variety of people. Different cultures, languages, countries, skin colors, lifestyles, live together in one place and that is very interesting.

In conclusion, New York is a great city that I would like to visit, for the quality of the buildings and the difference of people, which is a great value. The "Big Apple" is also the most influential city in the world because of many artistic and cultural factors that have to be known once in a lifetime.