Akyles Arqu reflection

 Akyles D.  Two images are presented next to one another. One of them is an interior courtyard, with symmetrical and uniform collum's, the other is a street with houses with second floors that extend over the sidewalk and are supported by a series of collum's of different sizes and shapes. it clearly depicts, from an arquitectual point of view, the difference between design and desire, creativity and necessity or preparation vs ingenuity. the duality of human creations and our legacy or some of us can be grouped and we can place ourselves in a uniform and symmetrical fashion, more often than not we surround ourselves and stand next to those who are wildly different.

 Akyles D. During class my professor made an analogy or perhaps its better described as a metaphor. He said, though I am somewhat para phrasing, the proses of design is comparable to the scientific method and here id like to try and expand on it. Let's start with observation. The process of acquiring data in order to get to a hypothesis. the observation process can easily be associated with the desires and vision of the client and the space and resources provided for the project. our hypothesis shall be the initial draft of plans and projected cost and time requirements of the project and possibly not the resulting cost or appearance. next the experiment which becomes construction a process in which the arquitect, engineers and other personnel are present. second to last is the acquiring, organization and/or processing of data which I can't think of anything that ties it to the introduction to arquitecture course that I'm taking because what are they going to do, look at th

 Akyles D.  A movie about the human condition. baraka was mesmerizing, the imagery beautiful and the sounds captivating, some were annoying but still amazing. I found myself enjoying much of it, to my surprise, and falling asleep for a little bit at the end, to my shame. I have also found or developed an annoyance for an aspect of the "human condition", which is what baraka claims to illustrate. In part of Baraka, we are shown temples, markets, city roads not made of asphalt or concrete but of stone, steps that led to a body of water that was constantly used, ritual grounds, artistic marbles and castles all of them ancient and old and covered in dust, moss, rot and/or rust. this really bothered me because many of these places where in constant use, filled with people and full of activity yet it didn't look alive at all. why not? why are these places where goods are still sold, where people still walk, where they pray, where they pay respect to the traditions of their ance