Hi everyone! Today I´m going to talk about a subject that I have enjoyed this semester: Interventions in Public space.  This course is presented in English. Each week we have to read a text about interventions in public space, artistic or architectural. Then, one group of two or three students, must make a power point presentation about the theme of the text and analysis the main ideas. There is another evaluation method that is the journal. The journal is like a  resume of each class that includes phrases from the lectures, images or drawings, also own reflections. The main contents are: first the definition of what is an intervention in public space, by making the difference between an architectural one. Secondly, the understanding of the modern Public Space, and finally, interventions in different scales. I like this subject, because the interventions are treated under a more sensory view, not only by analysing the space. It is like an integral method that shows you o...

Hi everyone! Today I´m going to talk about the architect Louis Isadore Kahn.     Louis Kahn was born in Estonia on 20th Frebuary of 1901 in the bosom of a humble Jewish family. He and his familiy migrated to the Unitaed States, specifically to Philadelphia. He studied architecture at the University of Philadelphia. There he was formed on the theorical bases of architecture, centered on historicism. His projects are monumental, influenced by Le Corbusier. Khan's buildings focus on material nature and light, neatness and simplicity. The library of  Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, EE. UU. 1965- 1972, was one of the renownest work of Louis Khan. Other is the National Assembly of Bangladesh and the First Unitarian Church of Rochester in New York.   I like him because of how he used the light on his work and also because the concept behind the structure that it is not only a building, is a composition of the form that light gives to it.   Goodbye!! Se...