Friday, May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Unit Summary.Explorations.
Number 3. Jeep Liberty.
I always wanted a Jeep, specifically a Jeep Wrangler. Last year 2008 I got a Jeep Liberty instead of the wrangler. I was not upset or anything but instead really happy of having a car that I could use and no longer have to rely on my parents cars availability. The car was from a friend of mine that he was leaving the country and he offer me the car for a very good price with just 20,000 miles on it. Despite the fact of the price, is the meaning that the car has towards me. It reminds me of my friend.
Soccer has been rolling around my life all the time. I played different conferences and tournaments in different countries. During my first year in UNCG I decided to make a small team and play in the outdoor soccer inter-murals. We eventually got to the finals and won the inter-murals championship by penalties.
Number 3. St Peters Square.
The first time I was in Rome one of the first thing I wanted to see was the Basilica of St Peter. Personally it means a lot for me because I am catholic and the St Peter is the heart of the Roman Catholic church, basically it does not get any bigger and significant than the Basilica of St Peter. There is a personal spiritual attachment.
Number 4. Plants + Gardens.
I personally love the outdoors and the nature. I enjoy planting plants and designing gardens. I personally take care of the garden of my house. I enjoy seeing them grow and seeing them blossoming on spring.
Number 5. Cooking + Food + Chef
I like cooking and it makes me distracted of my everyday life. It is a moment of enjoyment and a pleasure of taste where you can manipulate according to your personal taste. The chef hat is always been very attractive to me, it has a very unique design and anywhere one goes, it means the same concept.
Number 6. The School of Athens by Raphael
The drawings of the renaissance are the ones I like the most and personally connect with. I was recently in the Vatican Museum and The School of Athens has always been a incredible masterpiece for me and for many others for sure.
Number 7. Technology + Mp3 + Music
Music is a very important factor in my life. I can listen to music for weeks and not get tired. I like every kind of music, I enjoy almost everything and I have anything you can imagine in my Ipod. Right now I have around 3500 song in my ipod.
Number 8. Iron Gym.
The Iron Gym is a very interesting design tool to exercise your muscles every day and night before waking up or going to sleep or just even during the day. It works as one design that works different parts of your body muscles depending of how your are using it. It hangs in my room all the time.
Number 9. Blackberry.
Right now I own a blackberry and it has facilitated my connectivity with people. The blackberry has a program that is called "Blackberry Messenger", everyone that has a blackberry can talk through the messenger for free. It dose not matter where you are in the world you can still connect with people out of the country for free.
Number 10.
Citations
http://www.edmunds.com/media/roadtests/firstdrive/2002/jeep_liberty/02.jeep.liberty.f34.500.jpg
http://www.visualparadox.com/images/no-linking-allowed-main/soccerball800.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/St_Peter%27s_Square,_Vatican_City__April_2007.jpg/800px-St_Peter%27s_Square,_Vatican_City_-_April_2007.jpg
http://webpages.csus.edu/%7Eejw25/index_files/chef-hat-with-ladel.gif
http://www.communitiesinbloom.ca/App_Images/AdminImages/Image/Butchart%20GardenFall%203%20low%20res.doc.jpg
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/ipod-touch-a.jpg
http://www.asseenontvguys.com/productimages/as_seen_on_tv_guys_1/iron-gym-extreme-.JPG
http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/wp-content/phoneimages/blackberry88001.jpg
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opus Project/ 14th Week Prompts
Coming Full Circle
Community
What makes a community a community is an existing common share of a cultural, historical, locality, and government among a social group. Is because of people that things can mean more than what they are meant to mean. For example, the Spanish Steps in Italy is a plaza where the community gathers and enjoys a good time. What makes this plaza amazing is the people. The smoothness and connection that the people have with the plaza produces enormous amounts of life and meaning. Communities produce a specific locality that makes any structure subject to that particular place. It becomes more about celebrating the local rather than anything else. Roth explains that locality is about “creating environments for groups of people, living and working together in ancestral traditional ways”(Roth 607). Therefore anything that is build it has to satisfy the integrity of the community.
Community as a service has been always been something that I enjoy. I have gone to do Community service over at New Orleans to help the people affected by the hurricanes. These people live in trailers and tents because their houses have been ripped off the ground by hurricanes. Our job as a community service group is to help them to rebuild their houses and make them feel that they are not alone. The feeling of being part of this community is so great because since one comes to help, these people are in “wide open arms” to give you the best hospitality they can afford. Therefore, community does take a big place in my life, and I enjoy it as much as I enjoy anything else.
Stewardship
Today’s reality is about taking responsibility for our dependence of the environment. Architects, designers, artist, engineers have shifted their attention in creating a sustainable desing that requires less materials that could affect the environment. The safety and continuance of the human family is a “parallel concern for sustainability of the biological environment, the sustenance of the encompassing community of flora and fauna on which humans are utterly reliant”(Roth608). The concern for a “green” sustainability has shifted architects and people to create, with limited resources, an artfully skilled style and forms of buildings depending less on nonrenewable energy. Therefore, the environment becomes a stewardship for architecture, desing and people because we ought to adapt to what the environment can support, and nothing less.
innovation
Personally I believe that the Deconstructivism Movement is a great innovation in terms of original desing and style. Basically is to create a new thing over the supposed way to create buildings, to be original. The reality is that many people loosed focused in trying to be original, but I believe that Deconstructivism was a great and solid movement of originality. Deconstructivism “composed an interior which looks as it may fall apart, a loose collection of different technological and structural elements”(Massey 216). This movement is a big innovation because people starts to use desing with things that would have been never considered to be used as a desing component. Becoming original and innovative is what Deconstructivism has made, and has added new styles of desing.
I always thought that technology is an innovation that mutates all the time. I have been so impressed in my photography class because is a perfect example of a constant mutating technology. Back in the days, photography was made only by a reaction of a set of chemicals but today is different. Today we can enjoy in taking millions of pictures without having to change a film or worrying about how expensive would it be to develop the pictures. Because of the digital camera, photography has become a key component for advertisement, desing, etc because of its easy way to manipulate the image. In my class we can work with Photoshop and manage to place people in pictures in which they never existed. Therefore photography as a technological innovation is a fact.
Authenticity
In contrast to community and locality there is the Post Modernism. An authenticity of a demonstration of combined set of rules (classical+modern) and the idea to build everywhere and anywhere. It is a very anti local movement because there is not about where is located but about what does it represent. Does not matter where it is, as long as the structure has something to say, to project. Buildings and such, have to do more about providing shelter for humans. We ought to feel in harmony with the structure otherwise the building is a failure. An authentic use of new colors and shapes with a very playful style is one of many things that conforms a Post Modern structure. Massey describes Post Modernism as a “decoration used to create a striking mix of the antique and the contemporary”(Massey 208). Is about striking and mixing places, styles, images, and materials, to the unique idea of making something that is “seen to be seen”.
In my Desing Perspective class we have argued about enormous amounts of topics regarding life and the nature of order. The authenticity of this class is very interesting because the class is essentially personal. That is, there is no right or wrong answer in that class because everyone has a different perspective of the particular topic of nature and its order. Therefore, is a very authentic class because is unpredictable of what every person is going to say, or to think and argue about, so it remains as a personal perspective.
During this last week of class I have come to understand that, architecture, design and life has to do a lot with authenticity, community, stewardship, innovation and much more. We are constantly creating new things through technology, and becoming bigger as a community. We are challenged, as students and professionals, to be original and authentic in every aspect of our job or as our student carrier. Because of an idea of creating something new and original the Post Modern Movement and the Decontructivism was invented. Great styles and ways to live are taken out from being authentic and innovative. I believe that every designer, architect, engineer, has to involve him/herself into being a authentic original innovator integrating the community.
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