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====My name is Leonardo Jerez. I'm 19 years old and I study architecture at the Universidad Simon Bolivar. I like my career, including themes related to the design of buildings. Also I like painting, for it was a hobby that I adored as a child. Another of my hobbies could be reading and watching TV. I am very happy and fun, but sometimes a little reserved. My dad's name is Humberto and my mom's name is Margarita (Yes, a flower). I have two brothers and a nephew, son of my sister. My friends are many in collage, although I also have many friends in Guatire, city where I live. ====

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Hello, my name is Leonardo Jerez and I'm an architect graduated in 2013 at Universidad Simon Bolivar. I specialized in the area of construction, supervision and design of buildings. I have traveled to France, England and Spain to produce projects of buildings, then I moved to Los Angeles, California, where I am working with a company called "construction and PLH projects. There, I oversaw the construction and design of buildings beside a civil engineer. I now return to Venezuela to begin working on a state project in the municipality of Baruta. =====  media type="file" key="Leonardo Jerez Quiz 1.wav" width="300" height="50"__** 
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Residential building in Guatire



 Residential home in Baruta

<span class="short_text"> Art museum "Jesus Soto"

shopping center in "la Trinidad"



Sketch of a complex turistic in Margarita





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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus was one of the Ancient 7 Wonders of the World, chosen by Philon of Byzantium in 200 B.C. =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Built between 370 and 350 B.C., this monumental white marble tomb was dedicated to King Mausolus by his grieving wife, Queen Artemisia II of Caria, as a memorial to their great love. =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> According to records, the Mausoleum once stood some 50 meters high and was surrounded by 36 columns. It was designed by the Greek architects Satyrus and Pythius and four famous Grecian sculptors added an ornamental frieze around its exterior. =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> The structure stood atop a marble pedestal at the intersection of the two main streets of =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> The Mausoleum stood relatively intact until 1522 A.D., when it was ordered to be destroyed because it was an example of pagan art. =====

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Colossus of Rhodes __** =====



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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Colossus of Rhodes was one of the Ancient 7 Wonders of the World, chosen by Philon of =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> A gigantic bronze statue that once stood 32 meters high on a marble block, the =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Colossus of Rhodes was built by its citizens to revere the sun god Helios, who was believed to have helped Rhodes ward off the attacking Demetrius of Macedonia. Constructed by the engineer Chares, the Colossus was completed in 280 B.C. =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> In order to pay for the construction of the Colossus, the Rhodesians sold all of the siege equipment that Demetrius had left behind in front of their city when he retreated. =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Ancient accounts describe the statue as being built around several stone columns on the interior, standing on a 15 meter high white marble pedestal near the harbor entrance. =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Iron beams were driven into the stone towers and bronze plates attached to the bars to create the exterior. The upper portions of the statue were built with the help of a large dirt ramp. =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Unfortunately, around 224 B.C., an earthquake caused the Colossus collapsed into pieces. Even so, the statue was so admired that it was left lying in huge fragments for around 900 years. =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> In AD 654, an Arab force under Muawiyah I captured Rhodes, and, according to the chronicler Theophanes, the remains were sold to a traveling salesman. =====

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">__**PARAGRAPH ABOUT THE SEVEN WONDER OF THE ANCIENT WORLD:**__ =====

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<span class="long_text"> In ancient architectural works have been demonstrated surprising humanity. Although there are many magnificent works, only seven were selected by Byzantium in 200 BC, which are: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Pyramids of Giza, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis, the Lighthouse of Alexandria the Colossus of Roda and the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Currently, the Pyramids of Giza is the only existing wonder of the six remaining disappeared due to natural causes such as earthquakes, or destroyed by human beings in wars. =====

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<span class="long_text"> Although these works are important, I think the Coloso de Roda was the best of all by the majesty of the piece, as the boats passed through the legs of the statue, it makes me think of such a large scale of work. that would be awesome colossus Roda currently exist. =====

__**THE SEVEN WONDER OF THE MODERN WORLD:**__

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> __**ANGEL FALLS**__


<span class="long_text"> Angel Falls (meaning "jumping the deepest place") is the Highest waterfall in the world with a height of 980 m, generated from the Auyantepuy. This natural reservoir, Established as a National Park on 12 June 1962 and Declared World Heritage by UNESCO in 1994, covers an area of over 30,000 km ², to the Borders with Guyana and Brazil, and Its size is Considered one of the largest in the world.

It is Located in the Territory protected by the Canaima National Park in Bolivar State, Venezuela.The Universally Known Name That is, Angel Falls, Was released in honor of the American aviator Jimmy Angel, Who in 1937 Announced the Existence of the fall. This jump Was Known to the natives of the region, But its "discovery" Remains a subject of official discussion. Historians Some attribute it to Ernesto Sanchez, explorer reports The Who in 1910 to find the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons in Caracas.

Angel Falls is one of the Biggest tourist attractions in Venezuela, But Even today a trip to the falls is not a simple matter, Because the area is isolated by the thick forest, and make navigation Dangerous tepuyes air. The reason why this place should be one of the seven wonders of the modern world is the majesty of the waterfall waterfall That Also Represents the height (Which Is Considered The Highest waterfall in the world).

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// - Hi, Ma Yansong // //- Hi// //- Thank you for appearing on our show. First let me ask you about your studies. Where did you study? You started in China, right?// // - My undergraduate study was in Beijing. Then I did my masters in the US. // // - At Yale? // //- Yes, Yale. Then after Yale. I worked in London. I worked at the firm of Zaha Hadid Architects.// //Then you came back to China…// //-When I was in London, I entered a few Chinese competitions. And I got a commission.// //The SOHO project?// //-No, SOHO was done for Zaha. There were other projects in Shanghai and elsewhere.// //-And then you started MAD? Why did you call it MAD?// //-MAD is an abbreviation of Ma Design. Because I don’t want to only design buildings. I want to design other things as well.// //So you are going to….// //We are already designing things like furniture, a fish tank, and some interior design pieces.// //-What about the Canadian project and the building you designed?// //-It’s a unique building. At the beginning of this year, we entered the international competition. At the end of last year, we won a Chinese design competition. There were a lot of famous foreign firms competing, but we won, so that gave us confidence.// //-What competition was that?// // -It was Shengwu Island in Guangzhou. The Sun Plaza, a triangular building floating above the island. It came from a concept we had been developing. // // -Then we decided we wanted to enter a foreign competition. We saw this (Canadian) one on the internet. It interested us, so we entered it. From there, everything went very smoothly. After we entered, they selected six finalists from around the world. From the beginning, ours seemed to be the most popular. All the local newspapers highlighted our design. With big pictures in their coverage. It was nicknamed “Marilyn Monroe” building by a critic during the competition. Two months later, we refined the design, then we won. // //-Why did they come up with that name? Because it looked her legs?// //It looked like her body.// //-When you designed it, were you already thinking that?// //-I was thinking in those terms. It wasn’t exactly Marilyn Monroe or a women’s body. I just knew I didn't want it to be a box-like structure. I wanted to do an irregular twisting type of form.// //-When I first came to China, I thought the architecture was terribly unsophisticated, without international influences. Now that has changed completely. Why do you think it changed so fast? I feel like it happened quite suddenly.// //-This change is not only in architecture. It’s also affecting for example, fine arts and economy. So many things are changing quickly. But these changes manifest themselves in different forms. People often don’t really care about the background and history of these forms. So here it is possible to do anything.// //-What do you think is the biggest problem facing Chinese architecture?// //-I think of the foreign architects coming to China. Most of them are not very good. The problem is not that the market isn’t open. -And if you look at, for example (architects) Herzog and Koolhaas; many of these foreign architects are –excellent. But they can only design a few buildings, one or two in a city. Most projects go to commercial firms. They can’t assign a good architect to each project or else make constructive and creative works. Even more cities are impacted by Chinese architects. These architects don’t have time or don’t have the ability to do proper research or to properly understand their own culture and problems in society, so many projects do not have any connection with society. I think that is a big problem. It’s a two-part problem. One is the big, commercial foreign firms, the other is the local architects. This is the Hongluo Club (located in Huairou, Suburban Beijing), very difficult to build, a small house but very complex.// //-Was it expensive to build?// //-Not too bad, not too bad.// // -Thanks a lot Ma Yansong. Good luck to you. There are many challenges for Chinese architects in the future. //

Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. After graduating she worked with her former teachers, Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, becoming a partner in 1977. It was with Koolhaas that she met the engineer Peter Rice who gave her support and encouragement early on, at a time when her work seemed difficult to build. In 1980 she established her own London-based practice. During the 1980s she also taught at the Architectural Association. She has also taught at prestigious institutions around the world; she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture, guest professorships at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knowlton School of Architecture, at The Ohio State University, the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York and the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at the Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut. In addition, she was made Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.[1] She has been on the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.
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A winner of many international competitions, theoretically influential and groundbreaking, a number of Hadid's winning designs were initially never built: notably, The Peak Club in Hong Kong (1983) and the Cardiff Bay Opera House in Wales (1994). In 2002 Hadid won the international design competition to design Singapore's one-north masterplan. In 2005, her design won the competition for the new city casino of Basel, Switzerland. In 2004 Hadid became the first female recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Previously, she had been awarded an CBE for services to architecture. She is a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 2006, Hadid was honored with a retrospective spanning her entire work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. In that year she also received an Honorary Degree from the American University of Beirut.


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He works primarily in exposed cast-in-place concrete and is renowned for an exemplary craftsmanship which invokes a Japanese sense of materiality, junction and spatial narrative through the pared aesthetics of international modernism. In 1969, he established the firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates. In 1995, Ando won the [|Pritzker Architecture Prize], considered the highest distinction in the field of architecture. [|[1]] He donated the $100,000 prize money to the orphans of the 1995 [|Kobe earthquake]. [|[2]]
 * Tadao Ando** ( 安藤 忠雄,  //Andō Tadao//  [|**?**]  , born September 13, 1941, in [|Osaka] , Japan) is a [|Japanese] [|architect] whose approach to [|architecture] was once categorized as [|critical regionalism] . Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field.

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__** letter to Adrián: **__

Hello my name is Leonardo Jerez, I write to tell you that I really liked the article of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, especially when they mention the Coloso de Roda (one of my favorite works of architecture). <span class="long_text"> I would like to do a special magazine on the subject, to delve a little deeper into the story of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. I also want to send me information about why the wonders of the ancient world (except the Pyramids of Giza) were destroyed. I'll be waiting for your reply, thanks.

<span class="short_text"> to contact the editor or leave a message at:

leonardoj20@yahoo.com leonardo_ack@hotmail.com

04267069085



<span class="long_text"> Architecture of Tomorrow is a magazine that has developed in a class called "English for Architects & Planners" by the teacher Leticia Esteves. Week after week the teacher Leticia was helping to edit and improve each of the paragraphs of the virtual magazine, and each of us struggled to deliver a good job. The development of the magazine is a bit intense and we must keep up with paragraphs and daily readings, however, without the help of Professor Leticia this work would not have come to light, so thank you very much ...

=Asia's Most Innovative Buildings=

Asia wins innovation's wacky award time and again with their creative, yet impractical, architectural monstrosities. You may have heard of Taipei 101, residing in Taiwan and known as the world’s tallest building. But did you know the architectural kooks of Asia never rest when it comes to designing the world’s strangest, albeit innovative, buildings? Check out the Ryugyong Hotel in Korea if you are searching for a good example of Asia’s eclectic design. A huge, incomplete pyramid greets you as you walk up to the front doors. Construction began in 1987, and the project was abandoned in 1992. Some say it is because of a lack of funding, but rumors have circulated it had much more to do with the amount of low-quality, faulty concrete used in its preliminary construction.

image courtesy of gridskipper.com Today the building is famous for its construction site ghost town, as the windowless, fixtureless, forever incomplete hotel has been added to local currency and maps even though it is never expected to be a functioning business or residence. However one must admit it took a truly innovative mind to conceive the idea of a 3,000 room hotel for North Korea – a nation that limits its tourism and visitors more tightly than almost any other nation on earth. Go figure. If you are looking for further amusement, check out the currently underconstruction National Grand Theater in Beijing. Also known as “the egg”, the Grand will be open and functioning in time for the 2008 Olympics. So what’s weird about it? With it’s opera house logistics, the enclosure is semi-transparent, shaped like (you guessed it!) an egg, and will give guests a feel as if they are floating above a lake. Designed by the French, the local Chinese despise the building, however construction is still going strong so Olympic visitors can experience one of Asia’s architectural oddities in less than a year.
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image courtesy of worldtraveldirectories.com **inside of the theater:** image courtesy of english.people.com.cn Trailing behind Beijing’s dysfunctional theatre is the Oriental Pearl tower in Shanghai. Completed over a decade ago, the cringe-worthy design continues to dominate Shanghai’s night sky. It was originally supposed to look like various sized pearls dropping toward a jade plate (read – the river below), however most locals agree it looks instead like a giant, illuminated syringe after dark.
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image courtesy of www.ilankelman.org **Shanghai Riverfront with Pearl Tower:** image courtesy of www.ilankelman.org A final innovative building credited to Asian culture is an airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Ignorning the local’s nickname for the region – the “cobra swamp” – Suvarnabhumi Airport opened late last month with its neon lights and glass walls.
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Unfortunately it contains a cracked tarmac and an incessant amount of robberies on its grounds. It is also famous for its distinct lack of bathrooms. The new airport is such a disaster, Thai officials are now confessing to the media that opening the old airport is their only option to keep up with customers and flight service. With the world’s largest control tower but some of the most ramshackle landing strips on the planet, you can’t help but wonder what it is Thailand was attempting to compensate for.

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=Architectural Wonders: Building Innovation=

====Nearing the end of a year that has seen a new skyscraper win the title of tallest in the world and an innovative factory redefine what a manufacturing plant can be -- not to mention ongoing construction in China at a scale that makes the Pyramids look like an ant colony -- we felt inspired to come up with a list of new wonders of the world. But what raises a building from mere architecture to a marvel of innovation?|| || || Click here to find out more! || The ancient Roman architect Vitruvius famously wrote that a building should have "firmness, commodity, and delight." In other words, it should stand up, it should do something, and it should look good. Meeting the first requirement can be as easy as running load-bearing analysis software and designing accordingly. But with architects (and clients) venturing ever higher and experimenting with novel forms, basic engineering becomes a challenge. As for commodity and delight, most buildings succeed at one or the other. They are functional but not so pretty, or beautiful but inefficient. So, in gathering a list of the most innovative buildings completed in the last year (give or take a few months), we find that Vitruvius' trio continues to embody the key challenges facing architects today. But they have new ones as well, like the threat of terrorism, escalating energy costs, and a world in which regional differences can be harder and harder to identify. The 10 buildings in the accompanying slide show are the year's best answers to the following questions: **Firmness** How do you keep a building from falling down, especially during an earthquake, a typhoon, or a terrorist attack? Architects and engineers are year by year finding innovative ways to make buildings stronger, particularly those that present the most demanding problems of height, size, and security. **Commodity** How do you make a building more useful, such as an office that encourages collaboration, or a factory that helps hone its own assembly line? Architects and their clients -- whether corporations, governments, or retailers -- continue to develop new methods of improving a building's function, often by rethinking traditional office arrangements, mixing disciplines, or changing a retail store's relationship to the street. **Delight** How do you measure beauty today? The most acclaimed architecture communicates the spirit of its purpose -- whether it's a powerful brand image, an ideal of good government, or a way to relate to nature. **Technology** How does architecture incorporate technology, and how does technology help create architecture? Not surprisingly, some of the most innovative buildings are also the most technologically advanced, whether in their sophisticated composite materials or the data infrastructure that allows work to get done. **Sustainability** How do you lessen a building's impact on the environment? More and more, sustainability -- reducing a building's energy consumption and making it relate to its landscape -- isn't an add-on to the architecture, but a necessary starting point for thinking about almost every other aspect of the building, from its materials to its location to how its uses are arranged. **Security** How do you make a monument secure? By virtue of their prominence, nearly all the buildings on our list are targets, requiring creative ways of ensuring the safety of their occupants without compromising their symbolic meaning. **Sense of place** What does "local" mean today? Buildings are more meaningful when they're connected to their surroundings, whether through their materials, the cultural traditions they accommodate, or the way they blend in -- especially icons of globalization, like airports and office towers. While not every building on our list is innovative in all of these ways, each stands out in its answer to at least one of these questions. Take a tour of //BusinessWeek//'s architectural wonders of the world.====

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