English III

THE SUBJECT: When I decided to study architecture, I knew that I want to study at the University of Chile. I liked this university because all its subjects interested me. As time has passed, and we have advance in classes, I have noticed that my favorite subject is workshop (the others subjects do not bother me, but they are not my favorites); I love that in that subject you can express yourself, the teachers make constructive criticism and they help you to improve your ideas. Something that I also like is that the jobs they give us are often very different from one another, different areas are worked in the semester. We also work with helpers and they give us their opinion about some ideas that we have. We have made plates, models, sculptures, and other things. At first, what cost me most was to learn to make good sketches, because I´m not very good at drawing, but little by little I have been learning. Something that I liked is to make models, because there are different m...

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1867-1959): He was an American architect, is one of the main masters of 20th century architecture. He was born into a family of shepherds of British origin, and spent much of his childhood and adolescence on a farm in Wisconsin, in full contact with nature, which years later conditioned his conception of architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright entered to study engineering at the University of Wisconsin, but after two years he decided to quit the career and moved to Chicago, where he started working at Joseph Lyman Silsbee´s studio, but considering him a too conventional architect, Frank Lloyd decided to leave that job and start working with Louis Sullivan. Among his most iconic works are Millard House in Pasadena (California, 1923), Kaufmann House or Waterfall House in Bear Run (Pennsylvania, 1937), Johnson Wax Company Administration Building in Racine (Wisconsin, Unitarian Church in Madison (Wisconsin, 1947) and the Price Tower skyscraper of Bartlesville (Oklahoma,...