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English-readers notice

Dear English-readers,

Although I have started a process to translate most of the content of this website, I am afraid to admit that at this moment only a little part of it has already been translated to English. You possibly already know how difficult is to mantain your own personal and professional site as well as updating content in a regular basis, so imagine how difficult it is to do it in three different languages! I hope that in the near future most of the content will be available in that language, but till then, all of those who are willing to read about my thoughts or experiences (I am assuming that there will be someone, somewhere) you can visit the site in Spanish and use automated translators such as Google Translator.

However, if you are interested in a certain article and you utterly need it to be translated please let me know and I'll try my best to do it.

Thanks for your patience and sorry for the inconvenience.

About simplicity, complexity and deficiencies

published by carlos on Tue, 04/23/2013 - 16:42

Temas:

There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies; the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
– C. A. R. Hoare

When reading A byte of python by Swaroop C H, I found this quote being funny, well constructed and true. The funniest thing in my opinion is that it can also be applied to many other areas apart from computer science, being politics one of the most evident.

An experience as visiting lecturer at University of Limerick

published by carlos on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 20:00

Temas:

It's been a week since I came back from a short stage at the School of Architecture at University of Limerick (SAUL) as visiting lecturer with an Erasmus mobility programme for teaching staff, a school which shares certain similarities with the one I am currently teaching at, the School of Architecture at Universidad San Jorge.

Editorial proposal for 'Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme' magazine

published by carlos on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 11:26

On december 2010, the Col·legi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya (COAC)¹ organized an open competition for the new Editor and Editing Staff of its historical magazine Quaderns d'Arquitectura i Urbanisme (or simply known as "Quaderns"). Claudi Aguiló, Pere Buil and myself participated in that competition with an original proposal.

The observed observer

published by carlos on Fri, 07/29/2011 - 18:12

Temas:

Foto apresurada del libro en el que puede verse la fotografía de Pablo Garcia

Several minutes ago I received the publication of the 11th Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial's publication. This is a book which I certainly was willing to have and read thoroughfully, not only because is the final point and summary of the work I did for the Biennial but also in order to study all the participant works and read the articles. I have not yet have the time to read with the care it deserves to be red but it seems that there's been a pretty good work done by Fundación Caja de Arquitectos.

The following text is an abstract of the texts written for the book by Ethel Baraona, Pablo Garcia Bachiller and myself as the staff of the Biennial's Documentation, Dissemination and Transparency Team. The goal of those texts is to explain our work at the same time we offer a different, more intimate, point of view about another view: that made by the Biennial by making the selection of the finalist works.

Sensitive matter: young catalan architects

published by carlos on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 09:45

Curatorship, alongside Pere Buil and Joan Vitòria, of the itinerant event formed by an exhibition, conferences, debates between selected architects and public and visits to works.

'Sensitive matter: young catalan architects' is an exhibition that shows architectures made by young arhitects stablished in Catalonia who share not only the same generation but, above all, certain attitudes and a way to understand and practise architecture.

URL:

http://www.materiasensible.cat

Mike Hermans: humour and criticism

published by carlos on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 14:45

Temas:

My name is Mike Hermans, I am 38 years old and I was born and raised in Antwerp (on the left bank of the river). When I started studying architecture I knew nothing about it. I’ve started my first year in december. I came from the university of Leuven where I studied Physiotherapy. I was a sportsman (Basketball) and I liked to do some profession involving sports. The problem was that I didn’t like Leuven much so I went back to Antwerp where a few friends from high school studied architecture. So I went down there to have a look.

Scalae's website

published by carlos on Sun, 03/01/2009 - 16:39

Coordination of Scalae's new website, made by Crea't and Kings of Mambo. The goal of the new website was to gather and order all the content that had been generated since scalae's creation in 2004, which was previously divided into two different blogs, in order to display it in an easy and friendly way to our users, as well as adding institutional information and give everything a unitarian and professional appearence.

URL:

http://www.scalae.net