Why architecture?

 Hello there!

In this post i´ll explain why i choose architecture as the career that i want to study and live. Well, since i was a child i had a reference about this because my father is an architect, but he recomend me don´t study architecture because he didn´t think i really like the design, but when i saw him working in desgin of models and drawing blueprints i turn crazy, i really admire he and his passion. I was totally focused about study architecture in the U. Chile and i didn´t had any other options when i take the PSU, even when i postulated, i only mark one option: Architecture in U. Chile, that was my only alternative since i was twelve years old.


My experience in the career

At the moment i love this career, it´s demanding but exiting, even when i must stay up all night working in design workshop class. The only problem is the pandemic because i´m in third year and only have real classes in first year, in the online classes is very hard focus in learning.




My objetives: Architecture, for who?

At the first, i know that i like architecture and that was the activity that i want to study, but ... "for what?", what was my goal if i want to be an architect, well i was sure the "thing" that i want to do as an architect, an that is design the space, then the real question wasn´t "for what?", the real question was "for who?".

I didn´t want to be an architect in the actual condition of the construction sector, in this society divided in social classes i don´t want to be the architect of the richs, i don´t want to be a Le Corbusier, or a Mies Van Der Rohe, i want to be an architect for the working class. So my goal was not only design the space, but was think how we can build a new society, and a new city for the working class, and with this basis design spaces for the people. Like the swiss architect Hannes Mayer sais: "The architect knows that in the capitalist system, like an intelectual worker in the drawing table he is a slave as his companion, the construction labourer."

I want to cooperate in the built of a new society, and a new construction industry focused in guarantee a high habitability for the people. I wish some day will work in the design of neighborhoods, with good houses and public space, maybe some day doing classes in my university.

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