Smiljan Radic

I'm going to talk about Smiljan Radic, he is a chilean architect that was born on 1965 in Santiago, as the son of a marriage formed by Smiljan Radic Pirano and Cora María Clarke, he obtained the degree of architect by the School of Architecture of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1989. 

In 2000 he won the contest for the civic district in Concepción, Chile, a project which won him the prize for the best Chilean architect under 35 years of the Chilean Architects Association in 2001.

He has given numerous lectures and his work has been exhibited in Mexico, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Norway and Austria.

He has built many constructions of different types, the most recurrent projects are characterized by making use of the small scale, houses, pavilions and facilities. In them construction details and material experimentation are reiterative themes, where rocks appear as heavy and massive elements as opposed to light transparencies.

This house is called house for the poem of the right angle, and it's used by him and his family  like a holiday house. The exterior resambles a cave, but inside we can realize the great permeability that exist. This house has only 3 doors, one in the entrance, another in the central yard and another in the bathroom, this is so that there is always a visual communication inside the house.

What I like the most about him is the sense of nature that his buildings inspired, and how the choice of material give character to his buildings.

Drumming

I started to play the drums when I was 18 years old. Before I learned to play the drums I played the guitar on a rock band that we formed with friends of my school. We played a lot of songs, most of them were pink floyd's songs and others that we liked of bands like pearl jam, the doors and sometimes we improvised. We didn't have the room and the equipment to play in our houses so we had to lease rehearsal rooms that were very expensive. After a few years, me and my family moved home to a larger house and I cleaned up a room that I found in my backyard so I had the room but not the equipment, but one day, I talked to a friend that had the equipment and another band but they didn't had the room to play, then we united force and shared that little home studio. My cousin gave me his old drums because he had entered college and no longer played it and we needed it too. After a while we stopped playing because we had different schedules and my friend could not keep having his equipment in my house but I still had the drums and the room so I started to learn how to play the drums. Now I the drums in a mand and it is one of the methods that I used to relax.

My favorite piece of technology

My laptop

My favorite piece of technology is my laptop because it is the gate to the virtual world for me and i think that the virtual world is becoming very important for this modern world. It's also my principal tool for the university, everthinig I have to make I can do it with it. I bought my laptop 2 years ago when I started my career. My parents has been gathering money for my studies since I was a child, so we decided to spend it on something that would help me with my career and on my career  I have to use plenty of softwares. It could not be a bad laptop, on the contrary it has to be powerfull so I asked my sister that was going to Canada if she could buy me an specific model that wouldn't be very expensive but powerfull. And so it goes, I have my precious and I hope to use it for many long years.