Arantza's Blog

Hi guys, how are you? Today I’m going to talk about my study program at FAU The architecture curriculum in FAU only has three years, so still has a lot of problems. For example the teachers of the same subject teach different stuff, that is because some teachers teach us stuff of the old curriculum. That produce to us difficult in the next course. If you reprove a subject, sometimes you can’t take another courses which are in a totally different line, for example if you reprove “Morfología, diseño y materialización (structure)” you can’t take “Problemas de la arquitectura moderna (History)”. That is because the academic offer is very poor, that only has one schedule for each subject. The workload is too big, it is common to see people who hasn’t sleep in more than twenty four   hours and sometime teachers don’t care FAU have a big infrastructure problems, the building are in precarious situation. The free digital laboratory is on the last floor so in winter the rain bec...

What is your opinion about legalizing abortion in all cases? I think the abortion should be legalized for all cases that is because I believe in right to decide of each woman  about her body. Abortion is something that has always existed and it has been hidden to the society, many women have died from clandestine abortion, an example of that was my grandmother, she died in a clandestine abort when my mom was only a one-year child. My mother, who was a life person, lost her mother because people defend a set of cells before those who were born. What is your opinion about the US, Chilean, Argentine, and Brazilian far right governments and how they will impact our neighboring countries? Uff that is a very difficult question, I could give an opinion about each government, but it would take a lot of time. Firstly, I don’t know if I would qualify as extreme right the government of Chile or Argentina, as I would with the United States and Brazil. I think the problem of Latin Am...

Hi guys! Today I´m going to talk about my favorite movies and series. About movies, this could sound a little childish but one of my favorite movies is Hercules, I think everyone here know this movie so I do not think I have to spend time telling you what it is the history, the thing that I most like of this movie is the soundtrack. Another big Disney movie is The Emperor's New Groove, the best of this movie is that it is inspirit in Peru, so the details are fantastic, I see it again the last weekend and I really still love it.   Another one of my favorite movies is Jurassic Park, that although it is a trilogy, I think that the best is the first. When I was a child, I had this movie on VHS and I saw it almost every day, the truth is I still know the dialogues from memory. I think the new movies called Jurassic World ruined de saga, as it happened with Star Wars. My favorite series are Friends, How I met your mother and That ‘70s show all these are...

I am only in second year, and I use CAE to pay my studies, being honest, I do not think I have another option. In the future, when I finish my undergraduate, I will be indebted to the feet, so, being realistic, I do not think I can pay for a postgraduate without indebting me twice . But if I got the option to take a course, I would like to take a patrimony postgraduate, this area has been left aside by the Chilean architecture,  we need professionals who defend the culture through the protection of buildings, and specially of neighborhoods. I think, the first step to do that is go into each neighborhood, talk with the people who inhabit it and know its historical context. In this postgraduate I would like to study the conservation and restauration of patrimony and specially how we can identify patrimony.   I think I would like to study in another country, because Chile is not specialized in this area, for this I would like to be there, see the interventions in pe...

Hi people, today I am going to talk about photography. I think the photography is a very special topic,  because the photography is an art, and always are reason to talk about art. I am a little geek with photography, especially analog photography; I have read a lot books about this topic, my favorite photography book name is “Camara Lúcida” by Ronald Barthes. In this book, the author talks about his interpretation of this art, even he compare the photography with the theatre in the way of take a scene in a determinate moment. In this text also he relate the photography with dead, he said every photography shoot is similar to a gun shoot, with this he said that every time, when someone take a picture of you, a little part of you stay in this picture, the camera take you part of your life. I totally recommend you this book. My favorite photographer name is Sergio Larrain, he is a Chilean 60’s photographer and his pictures are about the people and their interaction wit...

Today I am 19 years old, so I only did spontaneous works like replenishment, digitizer, etc. Although they are not boring works, I would like work in something relate with my career, architecture. Even though I studied only 2 years in architecture, I fell in love with the social architecture, so I would like work in the street doing social architecture next to the people, I really wouldn’t like be an office architect or make private projects. I see myself in 30 years working with districts or foundations making improvements in neighborhoods, designing social housings, making project to help people. I hope, that job allow me travel to all the country, especially travel to extremes zones, this places was left aside by the architecture ... The The social architecture is required in all the world, so I could travel, know the social problems in the others countries and work for making better through the architecture. I am really not interesting in get a big salary, I...