Oscar Niemeyer

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 15, 1907 and died on December 5, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro with 104 years.
A great follower of Le Corbusier, he is considered one of the most influential figures in modern international architecture. He was a pioneer in the exploration of the constructive and plastic possibilities of reinforced concrete.
With Lucio Costa as urban planner and he as architect of the buildings, he designed the new capital of Brazil, Brasilia, to achieve this he had to project all the buildings that would house different activities, such as religious or political, and reinterpetrate them using reinforced concrete and His own way to see the modernism that used pure forms but, unlike Le Corbusier, curves, many curves.
I like to take the modernist principles of the time and know how to give their own stamp. I also like that him consider him surroundings and use the curved line to highlight the geography where he are

This is the Cathedral of Brasilia and it shows how a modern activity related to old buildings gives a modern form. 

My favourite subject

I find it difficult to say which is the subject that I like the most because I like them all, both mathematics and humanists. I think that is one of the reasons why architecture caught my attention, has a mathematical side, where physics is applied to the reality of materials to structure what we want to build and also has a more human side, which studies to inhabit, for the inhabitant, their needs, their customs and their history, and, you take all the components and make an artistic proposal with them, for this you need to express yourself and thus communicate your ideas both in a technical way as are the plans, in a written form and in graphic form that allows you more freedom.
For all this, I do not think I can decide on my favorite subject, maybe the workshop is the most capable of collecting everything, that's why I like it a lot, but at the same time is the most stressful, so I do not know if it's my favorite, I could define workshop as a subject to which I have love and hate.

One of my favourite photos...

This photo is one of my favorite photos. It was taken almost two years ago, I gave my camera to someone to take this photo and I could appear in the image. In the photo you can find all the people who worked in the cique du solei function in honor of  sodaestéreo, 7th day, in Chile, in the image there are artists who travel around the world showing the show and the Chilean staff, among them, I .
I love this picture because it reminds me of how well I spent working on that show and all the experiences I gained.
I remember that, among many things, they said that no matter how beautiful the show was, seeing it every day would tire me, but it was not like that, I did not get bored every time I saw it, it seemed more beautiful and I took more love. Also, I can not separate the function, the music, the friends and the learning in my memory, so every time I see the photos, or listen to the sodaestéreo or meet the people I met there, I am filled with the emotions, maybe that's why i like much more sodaestereo now

Environment and my career

  Actually is really necessary think about the environmental impact that our acts in life and career have because the planet needs people to worry about it.

In the past, the world was not considered to have an end and the future was projected as if the resources would never end, but now we know that this is not the case.

I think our university knew how to act well by adding courses that deal with this topic, such as urban sustainability, where we studied what urban planners have done in the past so as not to make the same mistakes and also the principles of habitability and sustainability, where we study the constructive possibilities that they help to save energy and improve the quality of life, in this way the university is responsible for making professionals aware and able to contribute to the environment from the architecture                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

My favourite piece of technology

My favorite piece of technology is my smart phone.

Why? Well, because is the piece of technology more used for me, many, many times in the day, all the days.

Can be easier many things in your life, it´s a computer on your pocket, it´s my watch (and alarm), my contact because I don´t have phone in my home, only use mobile, it´s my maps when I go to somewhere I didn´t know, it´s my way to know many things about my classes, I can see my e-mails, I can search all the questions I have immediately, I can play with the applications I download in before, and so many things more…

I remember the first time I think in jump to smartphone was in university, I really felt like I did not know anything and y I thought “I need internet in mi cellphone” and a few months later I buy my first smartphone.

I really don´t need the smart phone, no for living, but if I want to be a professional I need be connect with the world all the time, and the smartphone do that, connects you. 

Why did I choose my career?

This is a good question, actually I don´t know, but I like it.

When I think what job wanted when I was children, only remember, because my family didn’t let me forget, I wanted be a dishwasher, because I loved have mine hands in water.

In the school I lived the moment, so I didn’t think about anything of the future.

In last year of the school, I didn´t have classes and I wanted repeat the grade so I didn´t think in a career, but few weeks before PSU test, my teacher call to my mom and my mom told me “you need pass this year” and in three weeks I had to approve 4^th grade, take PSU test and think about my promotion and what career I will take in my future.

So, I choose study architecture in university of Chile the year after that because three reasons:

1.       My family convinced me that university is the best pre-university, and if disliked that career I could change the next year.

2.       Architecture sound good.

3.       University of Chile sound good.

Until now I like the career, I love study architecture but it´s difficult to me workshop because I have many distractions in my life, I don´t have much time, that’s kill me. And the future…. I prefer think in pass this year.

bye bye !

My Autobiography

Hi, my name is Magdalena Sofía Steinbrügge Torres.

I was born in Santiago, Chile in 1993. 

Yes, i 25 years old.
My academy information is really boaring, my first school was Eduardo Frei Montalva, it´s a public school in Ñuñoa.
In third grade, in a middle of the year, i changed school to Santa Margarita school.
After, in 2006, i was enter to seventh grade in Carmela Carvajal de Prat.
Since 2006 to 2011 the Carmela was on strike, taken by students, three times, the longest was in 2011, eight month. So, my graduation was in an office of the municipality. Only consist on going to find a paper.
After that, i was enter to university of Chile to study arquitecture, but destiny was not good, that year my dad had a heartattack, so i lost that academy year.
Since 2012 i have many problems, so i delay the career.
Actually i´m in second year of the arquitecture, and i live whith my boyfriend and i pay all my things. I´ts dificult, but no ones says that live is easy.