Expert that I admire

The expert that I admire is "Tadao Ando", an japanese architect. He was born in Osaka in 2941 and he learned architecture in a self thaught way. When he was young he was an amateur boxer and then he dedicated himself to architecture learning during his travels in Africa, Europe and the United States. In 1970 he began with his first works with small constructions that later became larger. His work is closely related to japanese culture, history and architecture.

In his constructions, use a simple and minimalist geometry. Also, he use the light like an important element in his constructions. An example of this is the famous "Church of the light", wich a natural light enter to the enclosure in a controlled way and becomes the protagonist (we can see in the photo). Other important works are the "Koshino house", "Azuma house", amog others.

I like this architect because I like the manner of he use the light and the harmony in his work, in a spiritual way that's nice for me to see. I also like cleanliness in his works and the way in wich nature occupies inside his constructions to insolate them from the cities.

 

Favorite subject

My favorite subject has been one of this first semester of this second year in the univeristy, this is "urban sustainability" teaches by the teacher Constantino Mawromatis. 

I like this subject so much because addresses a topic that catches my attention, like is the urbanisim, the sustainability , among others. Other reason is because the activities are funny and insteresting to do. For example,  we have to do activities that involves the photography and the edition, the investigation about a topic or the oral presentations. 
As I mentioned before, it deals with the topic of the sustainability, and I can say that is the theme most significant that I learned until now. The way in that the city is distributed and how this affects in different forms to the planet and the way of life of the inhabitants is something that I have been valoring in this subject.

 I think that this subject is very important to the carrer of architecture, because the sustainability has become more important these ages with the change climate and the search of a better way of life whitout damaging the environment.