video games

I consider that we cannot consider the virtual world as a real one. we just can consider it as a great scene where to essay our ideas. The Architecture needs a function. In other words; we cannot forget the vitrubio´s lections: " utilitas, vetustas, firmitas". without a function, there´s nothing, just a design. anything but this, in my opinion, is not architecture.

wireless access

because of the initiative to provide the city of San Francisco with wireless access, i would like to introduce my opinion. While reading informs about this topic, I got really concerned ...it seems like if the new politicians of this century were more focused on high technology than primary neccessities. What about the poor quality of the water in San Francisco? What about the main social problems such as poberty, developing neiborhoods, social security? it is everything already solveed? I don´t think so. Considering the incredible waste of money that this initiative will cost, I think that they should first use all that money for more usefull purposes, at least other objetives that will benefit to a higher quantity of citizens.

assignment 3: intelligent diagram

Considering as true the definition of a rizhome that gilles deleuze & félix guattari make, I accept that a rizhome is a "theory and research that allows for multiple, non-hierarchical entry and exit points in data representation and interpretation". then, if we observe the ants, don´t they have a hierarchy? don´t they have different ways to form a cue due to its objetive? are not they so predictable? it exist a protocol that they obviously are going to comply: we cannot expect one ant jumping to a river by itself; we cannot expect a working ant acting as a explorer one, nor drawing the best link to the next station... Then, How can we assert that a group of ants is a rizhome??

I agree that there´s not a homogeneus linguistic community; it doesn´t exist one unique utilization of a lenguage, as it doesn´t exist an objetive use of it. although, i strongly believe that there is a unique way in which people should make a correct use of the lenguage. Do you think that there is no ideal speaker-listener?

BLOG DISCUSSION TOPIC

Social networks determine the use that people make of a determinated place. One clear example of it, might be the ancestral conception of the occidental city; Until nowadays, the nucleum of any occidental comunity was the church. To our civilization, religion had become the capital element in its social network. Because of that, you could find the “domo” in the preference area of that landscape. Begining from that point, the others buildings could be ordered closer or not, due to its importance. You can easily find examples of this in any european city, such as Florence, Venezia, Pisa, Burgos, Sevilla, etc. Nowadays, the more the social network changes, the more you can see it reflected on its urbanism. Just contemplating new plant cities, you can nottice that the nucleum has changed. In our capitalist way of life, the church has main place anymore. Instead of it, the new main character can not be other thing than a mall ( in small villages) or a business center in a big one.

assignment1:surfing in the net

structure

shadows

light at millenium park

The capital of Spain, located in the heart of the peninsula and right in the center of the Castillian plain 646 meters above sea level, has a population of over three million. A cosmopolitan city, a business center, headquarters for the Public Administration, Government, Spanish Parliament and the home of the Spanish Royal Family, Madrid also plays a major role in both the banking and industrial sectors. Most of its industry is located in the Southern fringe of the city, where important textile, food and metal working factories are clustered. Madrid is characterized by intense cultural and artistic activity and a very lively nightlife.

"la cetrería es no sólamente un sistema diferenciado de caza, sino el arte que ha llevado al hombre a la más profunda y libre alianza con el animal; por ello, hermano halconero, cuando una vez más, ave al puño, salgas a la caza de esa presa que siempre parece la primera pero que en verdad puede ser la última, recuerda que sobre tu puño perviven y viven cien mil años de poderosos cazadores"

In 1997 Mayor Richard M. Daley directed his staff to develop plans for a new music venue to be built over the active tracks and surface parking lot. What is now Millennium Park was first conceived in 1998 with the mission of creating new parkland in Grant Park to transform the unsightly railroad tracks and parking lots that had long dotted the lakefront. Over time, with Mayor Richard M. Daley's vision and Frank Gehry's involvement, the project evolved into the most ambitious public undertaking in Chicago's history.  

I swear!! it�s true!!! the acoustic quality of this auditorium is awesome!!! 

From the 1850s through the late 20th century, the site that is now occupied by Millennium Park was controlled by the Illinois Central Railroad. In Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago he considered the railroad property to be so untouchable that he developed the Grant Park portion of the plan around it. Construction began on Grant Park in 1917. The first areas to be constructed were the narrow strips between Michigan Avenue and the railroad tracks extending from Randolph Street to 11th Street. The original Peristyle was built at this time at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street. With the completion of Grant Park, the railroad area remained a blight in its corner. In 1977 four Chicago civic groups proposed the "Lakefront Gardens for the Performing Arts." The proposed park, which included a performing arts pavilion, lacked both a funding strategy and significant government support. Ultimately, the Petrillo Music Shell was built in Grant Park as a compromise between the civic groups and the Chicago Park District.

He visto, como el griego, las urbes de los hombres, Los trabajos, los d�as de varia luz, el hambre; No corrijo los hechos, no falseo los nombres, Pero el voyage que narro, es... autour de ma chambre.