A professional devoted to design
An artist , a creator …
Who provides beauty to what surrounds us
Someone who manages to control time and space
That person with enough capacity to design spaces , having in mind human necessities , and economic factors
Collaborative job
Responsability
Communicator
Sociologist
Empathic
- Architecture does affect people .
- Architects concretize the world .
- The studio is a place where your creativity is measured very directly by the people around you , where you and everyone is focused , whereas as a student you have to create on your own , from your own imagination , create in response to a set of problems . Then people discuss their work together and combine ideas to improve
There’s a point in school in which you stop dealing with objects and you start dealing with occupation
Learning to see
- Delve
- Analyze
- Draw
- Travel
- Read
- Take photos
- Watch films
Learning to think
- Express with the correct language
- Be critical , suspicious and curious
- Share ideas
Learning to create
- Understand the human needs
- Understand the compositional rules
- Understand the materials (compatibilities, technical characteristics, possibilities of use …)
- Understand the construction techniques
QUOTES
Peter Zumthor : “Architects wants to be philosophers or artists now “
Kazuyo Sejima : “Designing is a continuous process of finding “
Alfonso Muñoz Cosme : “Being an architect is is to recognize and interpret the reality that surrounds us , dreaming and imaging at the same time “ “Eye and hand are united in a mental simple process that connects what exists with what is dreamt “
Alberto Campo Baeza :
“An architect is able to turn a house into a dream , and a dream into a house “
How to become a young architect:
- Thin about the why of the things
- Study every detail
- Analyze
- Be prepared with studies
- Go and see a real construction