My favorite trip

My favorite trip is the first time that I went to Barcelona. I went there with my dad, sins he was going to do a workshop at Autónoma University of Barcelona.

My dad and I woke up very early every day, because we wanted to go to as much places that we could, during the time that we had.

We visited the most famous buildings of Gaudi, like La Pedrera, Batlo's house and Park Guell. Also we went to Dali´s museum, that was not at Barcelona, so we had to took the train. The museum was awesome, almost all of the artist work was there it was very impressive and exhausting too, because he had to walk a lot to see the hole museum. But the most entertaining thing was to just walk at the street, and feel the life of the cafes, bars, tabaco shops, and everything that gives the identity to the city.

For me Barcelona was an opening mind experience, in terms of culture and arts. To be able to see all of that helped me to make my career choice, because I had the opportunity to see what an architect could do at it's best.

Someone who I admire

The woman of the picture is Zaha Hadid, she is an architect. She studied Mathematics and then Architecture, she was student of Rem Koolhaas and followed his steps.

I really like her architectural style, she is very innovative, she uses organic forms and she always tries to make projects that have public spaces.

She was the first woman to win the Pritzker, that is a price that awards the best architect and it is given every year, it's like the Nobel price for the Architects.

I have never been in one of her buildings but it would be really exciting. I hope that one day I could visit the bridge that she made in Zaragoza in Spain, for the Expo Zaragoza 2008.

I think that she is really an inspiration, not only for me as a student of architecture, but also for all women that are being successful on their fields. Because she is not the typical successful person, she is a woman, she is Iranian, and she is not good looking, so I imagine that it should not have been easy for her to get were she is know. Also the fact that she is Iranian is very important, because there is a lot of discrimination for the Muslims around the world. 

The earthquake in the city of Constitucion

The earthquake of February 27, was my first earthquake and I was very lucky, in my house everything was fine and nothing broke. But not everybody had the same luck.
I had the opportunity to go to the city on Constitución, because of the workshop of the teacher Guillermo Crovari. He wanted to make the workshop about how we could make solve the need of houses by using containers.
At the trip we could see the destruction most of all caused by the tsunami, it was really sad to see the people belongings still left there, all of there memories and dreams where destroyed, just in a few minutes.
I hope that as an arcuitecture student I could make a difference in the future of Constitución, even if it is a very small help.

Introducing myself

I am Camila Knuckey, I study Arquitecture at University of Chile. Now I am in an exchange semester with Catholic University, I am just doing the subjetc of workshop of arquitecture.
I have two teachers, one is Pedro Alonso and the other is Francisca Astaburuaga, the topic of the workshop is a friendly environment proposal for the city of María Elena, that is the last "company town" left form the nitrate industry.