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=Reply to the texts: Purposes of Architecture and Urban Design as career=

I couldn't agree more with these two readings. It makes sense for us all that Architecture isn't meant only as a shelter for making human life possible (because it would be possible anyway without shelters), but to mean something, to express and to make better life, to be an image of self esteem and to give a sense of greatness to humankind. Like the reading says, buildings are often metaphors (but what a metaphors!!!!) of human values and feelings, and sometimes, just pretentious objects.

(Esherick House: Louis Kahn)

About the second reading, "What is urban design", I felt the important thing is that tried to make us be conscious of the consequences of creating a building here or there, redesigning a public place, and so on. Please!!!! It's our world, our surroundings we are talking about!!!! Taking a light decision of how an entire public place will be is so wrong, anyone knows it. Every building has to be created with the maximum care about where will be located, what buildings, streets, parks will be around it and how will those public or private places change with the creation of the building... Will the shadow of the building make a dark corner? Will the reflections of the sun in our beautiful blue glass windows dry trees of the front street? Is it comfortable?

And those are just the more superficial questions we can make about this. Definitely, trying ourselves to be a little more like (good) Urban Designers is a really good way to make tangible our love for what we do, and specially, for who we are: humans.

(Project for a village: Hundertwasser)