I hereby extend a cordial greeting to you. (Every reader of my profile) My name is Rolando Jesús Vázquez Martínez, an Architect with more than 4-year experience, and graduated three years ago. 

Although my training as an architect developed throughout my undergraduate program, my inclination towards this profession originates from my childhood: my mother was always concerned about cultivating creativity in me and my younger siblings. The LEGO system sets and buildable games that she bought for us were a big part of this formation. My afternoons summed up in doing homework, swimming, and building my creativity.

Throughout my life I have always been interested in my sports performance, however the passion that captivated me about architecture ended up convincing me and I decided to study the career. In my first semester my interest in urbanism and the architecture aw. Through this I understood that architecture, in my opinion, it’s a personal projection that affects and involves society, thus, recognizing social needs allows me to project my designs with greater assertiveness.

One person who had the greatest impact on my academic development was the architect Zaida Montañana: she broke many archetypes that existed in my school, suddenly we had thousands of other architectural solutions for challenges we thought could be done only in one way, breaking the conventional mold.

One of the things that I liked about her teaching is that she really enjoyed each student’s individual process. She was an instructor who adapted to the individual’s method rather than making the classroom adapt to her benefits.

Architecture has the quality of being a discipline in which individuality is exploited and that is what the architect Montañana instilled in me.

Precisely thanks to this I started with the Architectural Contests.  She became known for a contest called “Design the last Skyscraper”. This is important to me because I strongly believe that competing gives you visibility among young architects and puts you in the spotlight between the higher-ranking architecture firms.

The contests results are recognition of your own merits, solving an endless matter of architectural situations and objectives. And to enter these contests, rendering is essential. It was in my early college years that I realized that it was of utmost importance to be able to communicate my projects in a visual way. I began to delve a lot into rendering and photorealism, and I specialized in these since it’s the way in which a novice architect can make his work known.

Personally, one of the aspects that I like the most about architecture is the personal deconstruction process. It begins as an individual concept in introspection; The more I know myself, the better the more I will be able to materialize my wishes, interests, and identity within architecture. All of this is a never-ending process, just like learning, for it is refined in self-exploration.

Furthermore, architecture implies solving challenges and complications; it lies on seeking solutions on what we thing it’s impossible, making it realizable. It is a discipline that works as a means of giving a material appearance to the imagination and making it habitable. With this concern to solve complications, I have set out to participate in different contests and calls, such as the Pavilion of Humanity where I managed the team which lead the “US project” to enter the finalists stage..