Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Chicago...

Michael Jordan, The best player
Chicago Bulls, Basketball team


Ozzie Guillen, Venezuelan

Chicago White Sox, Beisbol Team

World Series Champions 2005


Before the video the first thing that crossed my mind was Chicago Bull's , Michael Jordan, The White Sox and its manager Ozzie Guillen. Now i know more about it, has a very impresive architecture with the skycrapers. It's named The skyline city for its large number of tall buildings. It's the birthplace of architects like Mies Van der Rohe, Sullivan, Wright,etc.

Glass

Skylights

Glass Museum
Window
The glass is use in building to create a relationship betwen the interior and the exterior of a building, is use for example in windows, skylights and facades in general.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Concrete




A reinforced concrete bridge.... The bridge upon Maracaibo Lake... :) VENEZUELA
It´s named Rafael Urdanete









Use of concrete in a stadium...


Here... we have a traditional concrete mixer... This graphic explain how it works

Monday, November 07, 2005

Iron and Steel


Here is the timeline in the use of iron and steel... Nowadays is use for a lot of buildings and structures in contrast with de 1800´s


Another Aalto´s Building in which use bricks

Use of bricks on architecture


A common use of bricks on floor´s house

Use of briks on Architecture

Now... we can see how Mario Botta use the bricks...

Use of Briks on Architecture

There is the Baker House in Boston... Made by the architect Alvar Aalto

Use of stone


Here is a great building made on stones and concrete... By the famous Frank Lloyd Wright. It´s Fantastic

Use of stone

A church made all by stone... Good! ... No?

Use of stone


Prehistoric Uses of stones in Stonehenge

Brick Culture :)

Brick upon Brick: an expression can be like the junction of many things relationship to the same thing. The combination of the forces to a common thing. Collaboration

Brick and Mortar: Is necessary to mix the brick with mortar to make a solid and safe construction. The expression is related to things there are belong together. Can be the best friends for example.

Come up against a brick wall: for me is an expression for use when the things goes wrong and we think there is no exit. "We are against a brick wall"

Come down on somebody like a ton of bricks: is related to discharge the anger on somebody… pressure on somebody for something done what dislike hem/her/them.
"Poor people who received that ton of bricks" jaja.

Drop a brick: To put a brick in a strategic part to build something. Do something what is not to clever.

A good Paragraph

Primary, You might be very clear about you want to write, then you make a topic sentence about you want to express.
In addition you have to make several sentences around the paragraph (not much important than the topic sentence) that complement the main idea.
You have to keep the order between the sentences and the connectors.
It’s also important the orthography and the coherence.

Stones


Here is my brain map about the reading "stones" i hope you like it.... ;)


The stone is the oldest construction material. It’s use since the Stone Age. The stone was a great material because of its durability and adaptability to sculptural treatment and structures. In contrast are some disadvantages like the difficult to cut, quarry and transport that made of it an incomplete material.
Its weakness made of the stone a good material use for beams, lintels and columns and even to roofing, but this use requires more columns.
One of the types of stonework is the rubble which consists on broken stones of any shapes bounded in mortar. Another types are the brick, entablatures and ashlar masonry. The last one is use for monumental architecture.
The stone was the beginning of the constructive system.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Friends at Maracay and friends at USB

This page will use also to show all my friends, because they are great persons. I meet a lot of new great people once i came to the Simon Bolivar University. Also i leave a lot of great people in maracay... The city (town, wherever you like to call it) where i come.

Architecture for me... The best!!!

In this page i`ll show the things i like and those i dislike about architecture. That is what i`m studying rigth now and one of the thing i love. I show in this page a lot of buildings that i like, i hope you enjoin it. ;)