Why things in this world can't work the way they are suppose to work??, i always thing the human factor mess everything up, here's how the story of 2 books i ordered from the AA bookstore (in London) is going so far: From: Kirsten Morphet To: MADianito Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:39 PM... View full entry

i hate burocracy... today i woke up at 7 am in order to avoid any kind of delays and long lines in the inmigration office thanks to the fact that the spanish goverment can't give u a visa for all ur staying after checking all ur papers and stuff...no, they give u a firts one for 3 months, then ask... View full entry

ok so this are some of the first activities that will take place at the institute this first month.....aka the lectures calendar: Friday, January 14, 20.00h >> Aaron Betsky Director of NAI ,Rotterdam Friday, January 21, 20 .00h >> Joan Busquets Architect, Barcelona Friday, February... View full entry

Ok so, after had my allergic reaction with shrimps during the new years' celebration, pretty much i decided to go back to my element, ha!, so yeah, back again to work, think, dream, etc... So, mmhh thinking about my urban proposal for next week (a very general idea yet, that we have to show next... View full entry

So, after dinner i had to spend the whole new year's party at the emergency room of the hospital in Barcelona after get intoxicated by some shrimps i ate in the dinner... its weird since no one else who had those shrimps got sick, i hope im not developing an allergy to shrimps... anyways... HAPPY... View full entry

*continues from my previous post 2/2Diagram(from lat. Diagramma = design) m. A geometric drawing that serves to demonstrate a proposition, resolve a problem or figure graphically the law of the variation of a phenomena. // 2. A drawing in which the relationship between the different parts of a... View full entry

Warning: this is going to be a long post divided in 2 parts...(continue) 1/2 So, yes, i know i've been terrible BLOGGER lately...sorry guys, i've been finding hard to adapt my timetables of life, student, and blogger here in Barcelona, anyways, here's a small scope of what was our first crit of... View full entry

so... last days been working gathering information and me trying to put everything (every data and info for the project we r gathering) in one simple diagram or graphic which can explain the way we r going to deal and to generate a new city... actually been reading a pair of books that might help... View full entry

following this tradition other bloggers r having about naming the words most used in their programs will give u a brief list of the ones used the most here (which actually the first one i already wrote it down in HUGE letters in front of my sketch/note book):COMPLEXITY territories borders limits... View full entry

im just working for today's 'mid-trerm' Izaskun Chinchilla's presentation, mmhh my project is based in structurizing the territory inspired in the work of Paul Graham, and also on Bruno Latour's Paris Invisible City, so mmhh pretty much i have everything nailed and ready for tonight's... View full entry

Land Structuring as an act of [trajective] developing:Izaskun Chinchillaroundabout, by Paul Graham After an overview of all the cases i mentioned on one of my previous entries, i chose to analyze and take as basis for my land structuringwhat we call: THE UNVEILING OF THE INVISIBLE STRUCTURE It is... View full entry

So this is what i've been doing lately here at the IAAC:Contemporary Phenomena: Ways of registering:Anna Pla Catala Basically in this seminar we have to recognize urban contemporary phenomena and register it. For registering it we been analyzing several architectural publications from the last... View full entry

So...some of the "readers" of my blog already know (or they should) all my life i was a fan of Real Madrid (since im not really a huge football w, im more into basketball) but last tuesday this brazilian guy finally convinced me that i can support Barca (at least) for a year...Ronaldinho running... View full entry

So our project until january its a regeneration of the "triangle" formed by 3 small towns an hour south of Barcelona, in the municipality of Tarragone, the 3 cities are Vila-Seca, Tarragona and Salou, what we aim is to re-organize the cities so they can grow and still be productive since their... View full entry

projects from the e.work seminar:VIRTUAL leisureProposal: Mariano Arias-Diez collaborators: Loredana Modugno + Nektarios Kefalogiannis By the understanding of a neighborhood network as the relationship between certain group of individuals [nodes] and the relationship that can exist between each... View full entry

projects from the e.work seminar:netBOURHOODProposal: Nektarios Kefalogiannis collaborators: Monica Potvin + Jasna Bajlo this proposal will like to improve the connections and the communication between the neighbours and to facilitate the diffusion of local news or data. believing that the... View full entry

projects from the e.work seminar:WEB NEIGHBOURHOODProposal: Monica Potvin collaborators: Mariano Arias-Diez + Dinko Peracic The social scene”¦”¦ how many ways has the nature of our interactions evolved in the past century. Whether we admit it or not, our desire to feel... View full entry

So last night Bostjan Vuga came to lecture here at the IAACAT, i might say his office SADAR + VUGA has a nice work but also i wasn't very impressed, anyway let's see how that stuff looks face 2 face next march when i vist Slovenia, meanwhile here's some info + ideas + comments i wrote down during... View full entry

Ok so, this week pretty much we spend it focused on Lucas Capelli seminar which was directed to the knowledge of what he calls "e-work" which is pretty much learn how to work in a remote way with tons or few collaborators located in diverse geographical locations... The task was simple but... View full entry

So last weekend recap: friday: slept early @ home as a good boy after dealing w/the incompetence of the american express office (mainly fault of the branch @ Mexico City). Saturday: a little bit of beach and then partying at night, first at this barcelonian locals party, then we all got kicked out... View full entry

Some people had asked me what is my master program about...sincerely, sometimes i dunno what to answer, and i dont think is a bad thing....sometimes i feel like the aproach would bemore URBANISM than ARCHITECTURAL, but somehow it feels 110% architectural, or sometimes i feel also im doing a more... View full entry

So, since my last POSTS might give u the wrong impression of what im doing here... (most of times i post stuff that has nothing to do with arch, because: i dunno u, but sometimes i get sick of thinking/talking about architecture so i need to think/write about something else like Real Madrid vs... View full entry

When the mediterranean way of live of BCN absorbs u, is when u start feeling part of this beautifull city... one of the architectural centers of the world, and also home of the IAAC... we the researchers r trying our best to adapt to the Catalan way of life...so we really try hard, like past... View full entry

So a fast recap on what was my weekend... first friday sessions with Andreu Ulied and after Willy Muller, Muller talked to us about TRANSAMERICANA...the project they did last year at the institute for Brasil in collaboration with 2 other brazilian schools, which pretty much i wont recall....i dont... View full entry

Today some input from Laura Cantarella an Italian architect working with image and photography and based between Brussels and Barcelona: "...Landscape can't exist without a viewer, landscape is the consecuence of a perception, is a "view" of ageography, and because of that it can comunicate a... View full entry

Ok and also more info about THIS 1st TRIMESTER, which is organized by a series of seminars, lectures and studio.seminars: - Alberto Veiga (Visualizing architecture) - Izaskun Chinchilla (structuring the territory) - Anna Pla (Contemporary Phenomena) - Jose Luis Echeverria (readings) - Andreu Ulied... View full entry

Ok, as i think i said before, here in the IAAC (Instit d'arquitectura avancada de Catalunya) we are more researchers than students and we are treated as that, so, so far things has been going on a little slower so we (the researchers) are now gathering and setting up work tactics to get this thing... View full entry

So, between moving to my new appment here (on the first placed i stayed i was right next to Enric Miralles Diagonal Mar park, and now in my window is the AGBAR tower by Nouvel, BCN is totally archi-wise), getting bank accounts, buying new mobile phone etc., i still have to attend classes (haha)... View full entry

So, first sessions, the recap.... friday intro sessions, and we were told how everything works around here, so basically, we r going to be treated more as a researchers than students, at least thats the interest of the people running this master. We will be doing and investigation about the... View full entry

YEAH so finally we found a place yesterday... as my friend Gabriel just commented we went to the websites my insitute provides for getting accomodations here in barcelona...and we didn't found too much, well a couple but most of them in old buildings close to "La Rambla" and the "Gothic"quarter... View full entry