Monday, May 2, 2011

My new book :)

Guess what!? Today, like every other, I saw my boyfriend Danielito… he had told me some days before he had a little present for me… so he sneaked up to his room and brought me a book J  … It was an architecture book he had read several good reviews about it.
The description of the book says something like this:
“The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environment useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest. We dream about how we might live, work, and play. From these dreams come some 95 percent of all private and public buildings; professional architects design only about 5 percent of the built environment. While much of what non-architects build is beautiful and useful, the ugliness and inconveniences that blight many urban areas demonstrate that an understanding of good architectural design is vital for creating livable buildings and public spaces. To help promote this understanding among non-architects, as well as among those considering architecture as a profession, award-winning architect and professor Hal Box explains the process of making architecture from concept to completed building, using real-life examples to illustrate the principles involved in designing buildings that enhance the quality of life for those who live with them.”

So, I´m pretty excited to start reading this book … I opened to the first chapter and turns out that the author lived in Mexico for a while, so the book contains really cool pictures of the colonial typical Mexican architecture J ( I love my land, mi México Lindo y Querido)

For future plans I had actually thought, and talked about it with my dad, about going to Mexico for a Summer or semester and study architecture there too, so I can get the architectural style for my future designs.

( Don´t tell Daniel I told you ;) ... but, when I opened the book I saw that he had written a little note that said :
"The best gisft one can give is a meaningful step to the future, and I try." )
SOOOO BEAUTIFUL<3

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