ARCH 1121 A History of Architectural Technology Fall 2012 Mishara

I am Cristian Aguilar. I am from Ecuador. I came to this country 5 years ago. I did not know who my parents were, because they left me when I was one year old. I saw them fourteen years later. I grew up with my grandparents and aunts. I visited Ecuador two times since I am living in New York City.  I went to Newcomers High School. I joined the soccer team two consecutive years, the first year as defense and my second year as goalkeeper. I earned the Athlete Award the two years.  I graduated from High School on 2011, and then I went to York College. Now, I am on City Tech, because I like architecture since I worked on construction when I was 12 years old. I want to learn more things about architecture and designing buildings and houses.

Hello my name is Glenny, I was born In Manhattan, NY. I come from a Dominican descendant. Something interesting about me is that I was raised in NY and in D.R, that’s because my family kept traveling back and forth between those two countries.  We settled Back in N.Y. 8 years ago. Where I got to finish HS, and attend College. I’m currently taking architecture because I believe is a challenging and fun major, and because I like the idea of designing buildings. I have no background whatsoever in any type of art and science but I’m ready to learn lots of new things In this roller coaster.

Hello everyone, my name is Hercules Emile Anthony Reid. Interesting fact about me is that I have two first names. I am a NY native and have lived from the Bronx to Upstate NY and now Teaneck NJ. I am a transfer student from Delaware State University where I studied Psychology. The school became too expensive to attend and my heart was not in to psychology as I had thought. After a class in high school I discovered a passion for the architecture field. Transferring to City Tech, I choose the best option for me to succeed. I am in love with sports. I have participated in soccer, swimming, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball, and track and field in my life time. Track and Field I loved and succeeded in the most. I planned to run for City Tech only to find the cancellation of the program. So instead I plan to take up Karate and Boxing along with perfecting my new craft and love Architecture.  By the way I am trying to make new friends.

Hello, my name is ying. I come from Guangdong China. I has been NYC almost 4 years. I like New York, because I can see a lot of things that I might ever never be seen in my home town; especially all different kinds of buildings in the streets, such as different shapes,structures and materials of houses,offices, churches, etc . From all different constructions, I am attracted; therefore, I am in Citytech, as a beginner to study architecture. I know it will be difficult for a second language speaker; however, I will do my best. Even I don’t have any expericence before, surly I will learn a lot soon.

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We will be using this Open Lab site and a Blackboard site. This may be confusing, so let me try to explain. On this Open Lab site we will be writing about architecture, thinking and forming ideas, interacting with one another, and eventually posting final projects. This is an active site. On the other hand, the Blackboard site will be passive. I will post lectures and homework assignments for you to download. The two sites are necessary because there is not sufficient memory in Open Lab for all the graphics and images we architects love to use.