Blog post 7: Who is a person/expert on your field that you admire?

Since I started studying architecture, I asked myself why I’ve never heard about a successful female architect, until one day a teacher spoke to me about Zaha Hadid. 

She was born on October 31, 1950. In 1972 she traveled to London to study at the Architectural Association, and she met the architects with whom she would collaborate as a partner at the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis. Then in 1979, Hadid established her own London-based firm, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA). Over the years she won many awards in the field of architecture, becoming the first woman to win many of them.

Her projects are characterized by aggressive geometric designs, she was the first woman in design an American museum, the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has made train stations, arts and science centers, an opera house, universities, among others.

I like her because she changed the vision of architecture through her designs, she went beyond architecture, making interior designs, furniture, clothing, and different objects. I also admire her very much for all the awards she won, being the first woman in many of them.

                                One of her most recognized projects, Heydar Aliyev cultural center.

Blog post 6: How can my major make the world a better place?

As most of you know, I'm studying architecture and through my years of study I have realized how my major can affect in terms of pollution, for example we could contaminate with materials that are not recyclable or that in their elaboration emit large amounts of CO2.  Or even if we use materials that are not thermally efficient, people will have to use heating, which is a big expenditure of energy.  I see myself in the future specializing in something related to the environment because I think that in the coming years it will be increasingly important to take care of our planet considering the damage we have done over all these years.

The way that my major could contribute to the worlds benefit is projecting sustainable buildings, worrying about the materials we use, and by using efficient ventilation techniques, so that is not necessary to spend on heating. Another way it would be to promote the use of renovable energies or collect rainwater.

Post 5: A photograph and its story

 This photograph was taken by one of my friends in 2019. This place is called Joffre Lakes and it's located in British Columbia, Canada. I went there to learn English but I also travelled around the country, I made many friends of different nationalities and Joffre Lakes it was one of the places that we visited together, I remember that to get that place we had to do a 4 hour hiking, also that day was so cold that it started to snow and the floor was very slippery, we almost fell a couple of times but it was fun and the landscape was amazing, we took many pictures and I'm pretty sure I will never forget how wonderful that day was.

This photograph means a lot to me because it reminds me of one of the best experiences I've ever had in my life, travel alone and learn another language. Also. that was the first time I travelled outside of Chile, so this photograph is definitely very meaningful to me.