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Architecture and Seism

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I must to be honest, the structural subjects are not my speciality, indeed this year it´s not very different, even if im not bad in maths, i´m too slow for calculus, and i hate memorize formulas. But there is one thing that i love about the structural subjects, learn the logic of the science behind a building, and how to apply the different materials in the architecture. That´s why i really like the architecture and seism  subject in this fifth semester. In this subject we study how the seism work s, and how the building answers in the face of an earthquake. With this conceptual basis, we must apply in a teamwork some formulas to verify if the architecture can support an earthquake, and if the structure fails we must think in another solution. Apart from the calculus, the search of a correct solution for one building in the face of an earthquake using the structural logic, it´s very interesting. Also, understand this subject and the seismic technology is very important thinking in ...

Hannes Meyer

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Hannes Meyer was a swiss architect, he was the second director of the Bauhaus, the most important architecture school in twenty century after Walter Gropius. Before the Bauhaus, he work in Switzerland in trade union projects, as the Friedorf Siedlung. When he was director of the Bauhaus, Meyer gave the Bauhaus a comunist and scientific perspective, from a colective work focused in the development of the tecnic for build quality houses for the workers.  Meyer was expelled in 1930 by the Major of the city of Dessau for organize a communist cell in the school. After his expulsion he went to live and work in the USSR, where he had most of his professional activity as a  loudspeaker to the world, of the achievements of socialism, and explaining what it means to be a leninist architect. Later, at 1936, he returned to Switzerland to import the socialist experience inthe USSR, and later he traveled to Mexico turning into a mentor of latinamerican socialist architecture. He was expel...

Architecture as a class weapon

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 Hello there! Today i´m going to talk about my perspective about the architecture, as a weapon for build a different world.  I think architecture is a disicpline whose is dependent on the ideology of the ruler class, as a way to build in the territory the method of the social relationships in a determinated system, by way of the architecture the society adjust the relationships between the workers and their jobs in the urban land, between the areas of the economy, and between the city and the field. That´s because it´s necesary not only work since the individual actions, we must modify the architecture, its teaching and its practice. Actual capitalist architecture is the discipline responsible for the build of segregated cities, monuments for the rich and left the misery for the working class, in exchange of this i thing we must work for a socialist architecture. The socialist architecture will be scientifically planned in accordance to the social needs of the people, by means...