Johan Ramírez Blog

Is so difficult for me to decide one city that I want to visit because exist a lot of cities that I want to see. I have a kind of mental list, even I think that exist places that I never heard but that if I listen something about of one, I would wish to go to that part. One of the cities that I want to go for architecture is Paris, is almost a Cliché but I don´t want to lose that opportunity in my life, I really want to go to Paris and enter to the Louvre, go to eat something delicious and taste a good coffee. Bu I would to talk about of another city because I want to talk about a city but not for the point of view of an architect, I´m going to talk about of music too. I want to go to Seattle in United States… I love the music and some artist that I love lived in Seattle, is the cradle of the Grunge music and post tock and I really want to see those places. Where Kurt Cobain started his career and do a lot of strange things, how it was his environment and go to see his house. Sea...

I´m not a person that have a big group of friends... the group of friends that I have is variable, i dont know why, maybe because I meet person in the way, they become in my friends but in one point of my life they gone of the group for some reason. But I have one friend that he stay in the category of friend since we were little kids. In Colombia, when I was 8 years old I met a kid in my school, i started to talk with him and a few weeks later we were unseparables friends. One year after that he told me that he had going to travel to Chile and that was sad for me but, one month later my brother took the decision of travel too. So my family and  me came to Chile and my friendship with this guy manteins it normally untill today. Maybe we have some diferences now, we have growing up and changing but we still talking, going to partys, sometimes we go to play, he is a drummer too and I play the guitar. He and an another persons stay in my group of friends but he is the person that...

I know some places that I really like in Chile and Santiago but one of my favorites, or maybe more than my favorite is one of the most important for me, is Villarica lake. Beautiful landmark in middle of Temuco and Pucon, a lake that you see almost all the travel of Temuco to Pucon, is a big lake that has an awesome view of the volcano and obviusly, the view of the nature, the water of the lake and the trees of the area make it a relaxing place. This landmark is the most important for me because it was my first travel to the south of Chile. I went in the winter´s vacations of 2014 with an ex-girlfriend. we went in a little trip of "mochileo" and we only went to see Temuco and stay there for a week and maybe visit some near places. some day we wanted to go any thermspools and we take a bus to Pucon looking for some therms and we stay there for the day and we look the therms for the next day. While we was in the Pucon we visited the lake. We didn´t swim in the lake because it...

There are a lot of things that really passionate me, there are of humanist tendencies, like arts, politics, history but in preference the arts make me feel passion. When I looking a piece of art like a paint, the sensation that transmit to me are so powerful and is awesome how that sensations are different in every person that see the piece, that is so exciting. Not only the visual art, the musical part too, maybe for me, the people is more sensible to the music because exist a lot of kind of music and is easier to get it, in my case I am a person that Is based on the rhythm because is the first impression that I have of a song, how that makes me feel and it musically wealth, how the piece are build and what instruments have, after that for me comes the rhythm. But… all of these are parts of what passionate me but one of the things that really passionate me is the architecture and that is why I´m here. Maybe in a first instance I don’t know what really was architecture but once t...

For  this fiestas patrias, I planned a lot of things that I needed to do. First one day to celebrate with my University friends in the pircas. That was very craizy, was a good day haha a lot of remembers of that day comes to me. Next a day with my family, in home, they don´t celebrate this dates but we ate anticuchos and drank wine. For the next day I had tickets for the “Fonda Permanente! And I went with two friends of the university,  was a long day but I really enjoyed it, I listened a lot of good singers. The next three days I went to the fonda of the Estadio nacional with all friends, we drank a lot, play a lot of games (I won two teddies those days) and I was hosting in a friend´s house. In the afternoons, for lunch, we cooked a lot of food, experiments and different kind of foods, we did terrremotos in home and see a lot of movies. This fiesta patrias was one of the better fiestas patrias that I ever have. Is a week that I always wait with craving because is a good...

The last week it was a lot of things that I do but I can't remember... is terrible haha but I remember one of all of them. My old school it was preparing a trip to the General cementery in a curse of history, a friend of mine told me and invite me because that cementery have a lot of Mausoleums with a diferent kind of architectures, verys specials and curious, also it was a reaaly culturistic routh. I accept the invitation and I went, because I had the time because we was in "toma". I only can say That place is awesome! becuase it has a lot of interesting and weards mausoleums! one of the most interasting was the mausoleum of Juan Vicuña that it was a Hindu Mausoleum or something like that, I structure of oriental origins, like the temples of adoration in India or the Nepal temples. also it was a lot of classics and gothics mausoleums, big and small mausoleums. the place it is so green with a lot of trees and a specific and weard but confortable atmosphere. I visit t...

The best concert that I went was the concert of Pearl jam two years ago... Pearl jam came to Chile for the Lollapalooza 4 or 5 years ago and in that time I couldn´t go to see them and that was very sad for me because is one of my favorites bands, Eddie Vedder have a great voice and the music is awesome, is a really talented band. two years latter of that Lollapalooza they anounce that they will come again to Chile and inmediatly I buy the entrance! it wasn´t  expensive so I was really happy for had the entrance. I really know a lot of things of Pearl jam, I only wanted hear them. A friend of mine accompany me... In the concert Eddie drinks wine like always and read a letter that he wrote in spanish for say thanks and say that the wine was "Un manjaaarsssh"! it was really funny and closer to the people. after that they play a cover of Imagine By John Lennon and all the people turn on their flashes of their cellphones while Eddie Vedder was singing. Finally he started throwi...

I am using this session of the blog for comment something that really upset me... Since I was a kid I like a lot Gorillaz, the digital band created by the vocalist of Blur (Damon Albarn), It´s very interesting group, have lyrics so significant and a have a unic rithym that no any band have. Other thing very interesting of this digital group, are their concerts, because his quality of digital make his concerts uniques and differents, a really unusual show that I have always wanted to see but they never came to Latinoamerica and also the band stayed inoperative for a lot of time. This year, the band released a new album and all the fans was so excited... it started the rumor that they will came to Chile... finally that they came, they confirmed that rumor, but, when I Try to buy the ticket for the concert I have the surprise of it´s excessive price... come on! that is not fair! All kind of persons must have the oportunity to buy the entrance but this is really expensive... I´m a little...

I don´t know if I am really good in something, but I like to do a lot of artistic things, I like to play guitar, sometimes I write little texts, but the most important for me, with the music, is the draw,  the visual arts are very important in my life since I was a child. Since I have memory I reaaly enjoy drawing every that I can. I started drawing cartoons or mangas, when I grew up I try with more complex things, like real persons or more detailed draws.  All kind of draws requires a lot of materials, I have had a lot types of pencils, paints, papers, brushes but the most important... time and patience, somethig that I have but a little. I still doing this but for my own pleasure becuase I don´t cosider me good doing this but I like it.  Now in the university I have been learning more forms to do visual art and techniches of draw, and is for this, another thing for what I love this career. I still learning a lot of things of how draw and I still trying, i have...

The photograph that I chose is the only picture that I have here in Chile (because I'm from Colombia) and it was present all my family core. This picture was take in the graduation ceremony of my cousin Lady in Colombia, she is a doctor now. The picture was take by my uncle, he is a professional photographer and he always be the photographer in every familiar event. For me it is very funny and curiousity this picture because my sister, brother and cousin was in the university, and me... I only was 7 years old in that time. I was enter to the primary school that year and my brother and sister was at the middle of their professional studies at the university (becuase they only have one year's diference in their age). In the picture apears my Mom, sister, brother, cousin, my dad and me, is not necesary to explain who is who becuase is very obvius. This photo is one of the few photos that my mom look at the camera becuase she always look to another part or she are with the mo...

I like a lot the experience of a class that you can speak in english in a superior level because the teacher who really speaks in english is an incentive for speak better although we speak less maybe for shame or for another reasons. maybe all of we are very worried about for anothers classes but for me was a good english class, diferent from the one's I'm used to do.   I think that this method of write blogs is interesting and for me was confortable. I think that I improve a lot my writing with this exercise and makes me think more in English, know that I can write a simple but long text in English using every time less a traductor or a dictionary is a good advance for me.   I would like to include maybe another types of activities for learn more to think in english, I don’t know exactly what but something more informal, less “academic” that causes more interest in the students. Maybe a kind of video game or something that involve all of us but only in English.   I wo...

draw I have some hobbies but one of the most important for me is draw. I started to draw when I was a little kid, since I have conscience, I really enjoyed this hobby, try to draw my favorite cartoons or even characters of the video games that I liked. When I grew up I try to do other things and explore a little more in the world of drawing. For draw you need materials, tools and every you want, every people have a preference about what they want to use becase everyone have their own style for do it.I like to have three kind of mechanical pencil, or kind of pencils, with diferents thicknesses, a good eraser and paper with a intermediate grammage like fabriano paper. Also if I want to paint my draws I can use oleos or markers... i want to lear to use acrilics and acuarelas... I usually draw alone since I was a kid, is something so personal for me and this make me feel "free" because I can expres what I want but sometimes I can't expres what I want and that is hor...

Geometry Is kind of dificult to choice one subject like my favorite because I like every subject that I have in the career but this one, is in the one that I have better marks, is easy for me, so I enjoy a lot this class. In this subject we have to see, understand and build geometrics forms in the space, understandig their spaciality, volume, projections and how we see it in the real life. we started wit simple forms in 2D, transforming it, deforming it... that is called "transformations". After that we take this geometrics forms and try another thing, we "homologate" the form in a second plane... the vertical and horizonthal plane, deforming the figure like the projections that are presented in the reality. finally we learn to project a figure but now in 3D in a new plane, a espacial plane that is conform again with the horizonthal and vertical plane but now in this case we can put the figure not only in the planes, now between the planes, spatially wi...

Antoni Gaudí He was a Spanish architect, the highest representative of Catalan modernism. He was an architect with an innate sense of geometry and volume, as well as a great imaginative capacity that allowed him to mentally project most of his works before moving them to plans. In fact, he rarely made detailed plans of his works; I have preferred to recreate them on three-dimensional models, molding every detail as mentally devised them. On other occasions, I have improvised on the fly, instructing his collaborators on what to do. More than the sense of geometry in a formal building that he had, he made a beautiful archichectonical art in the vanguard of the 20th century with his new desings, the new view of the architecture, a new art that will represent him, he has a lot of Beautiful buildings in Barcelona and even and a gorgeous cathedral that is not ready jet because is very complex and beautiful. This men revived with more stronge my choice to study architecture, I ...

I will start explaining that day was a strike for the education fight… so, I was in home preparing me for go to the march. When I was in the shower I heard a noise in the living room, scared I Run to the living room in a bath towel and 3 weird guys was looking for something or somebody… At that moment I didn’t know what to think,  unexpectedly, one of the guys jump over me and I tried to run but other throw up a strange liquid that fell in my leg and burn me, immediately I didn’t feel it and run to the kitchen for a knife but when I was back in the living room the guys was disappear… so, now, I have a burn in my leg and I couldn’t go to the University and less to the march. Since that day I have a seriously burn in my right leg But now it's getting better (this is real).  

This is not really my favourite photo... I think that is kind of dificult to choice a favourite photo in the millionbs of photo that exist or I have seen in my life.... but this is one of most simple and beauty photos for me...  This photo was take it by me on October 11th of 2015 in a expocision of Ivan Navarrro in the CORPARTES. Ivan Navarrro is an artist who work a lot with the lights with interesting proposals of diferent topics, in this case, this chair talk about the dictatorship and the tortures that people suffered at the time. I like a lot this picture because the meaning of it is a topic that is repeated for the chilean artists many times and is an important part of the art in Chile... also the visual propose is very interesting for me because the game of the lights and the colours is apparently simple but is very powerfull and beautiful to the eye.

I have seen a lot of movies and is dificult for me to choice one... a lot of movies have left me a kind of message or reflexion about many things... is dificult for me even remember the movies, is not because I don't like it, is because I have seen so many and almost forgot it. I'm trying to choice one... release year: 2014 Director and screenwriter: Mike Cahill Characters/ actors: Michael Pitt,  Brit Marling,  Astrid Bergès-Frisbey,  Steven Yeun,  Archie Panjabi, Kashish,  Cara Seymour,  William Mapother,  Venida Evans,  Ako,  Dorien Makhloghi, Charles W. Gray,  John Schiumo,  Farasha Baylock,  Christopher Santamaria, Sebastian Santamaria,  Rhonda Ayers ,  Crystal Anne Dickinson,  Venida Evans. A molecular biologist (who don't believe in nothing that don't be science) know an opposit and artistic girl and he fell in love... during the movie someting that would change the way of thinking in t...

The first one I got it was five years ago, a friend lent me one  because I didn't have money for buy one. three months later, I got the money for buy it and Since that day I don't stop of use it. This thing is one of the better inventions of humans but is very old, with it I can express myself and I use it almost every day when I have time, is the best way to relax for me and show my likes. Now I'm trying to buy a new one, but is very expensive. Exist a lot of kinds of these things (I don't want to call it gadget because is more than that) but  I will try to describe it in a parcial form... this thing is made it with wood principaly and have 3 important parts; the "box", the mast or arm and one hole. It is used with the two hands. I try to take it with me every time that I travel because is very important for me and I can use it in every part, brings good moments and good remembers.

When I was a child I didn't think about a lot of jobs or professions but yes in a few specific professions that I felt that I was born for that. First I wantted to know the space, be an astronaut was my fisrt dream. But at the same time I really like to draw (until today) and I wantted to be an famous artist. When I started to growing up the music was the art that took the first place... one day, when I was 14 years old I look the art in the structures of the buildings and since that day the architecture was one of my real options... the design too but architecture had something that I couldn't take off of my head, I didn't know what was it but today I can understand that this career was the best option. Since I was in the high school, I really wantted to go to the university, the school was very borring for me, when that day came, i was very excited, and this time here, in the university, had been one of the better experiences that I had in my short life, the pe...

Hello everybody! welcome to this amazing and funny blog of my exciting live...  Let's start... Johan Ramirez was born in Cali, Colombia. he lived all his childhood there in Colombia until his family decided to move to Chile in the 2009. He only studied in two elementary schools. while he was studing he did a lot of CFGs like musical composition, how to play drums, bachillerato of sciences and one of design. Now he is studying architecture in the university of Chile but he always wanted to study medicine. His central family is composed for his parents, 2 brothers and 1 sister. The first brother lives in India with his wife and he come to Chile every year. the rest of his family live in Chile except his father. He loves draw, play and learn how to play every instrument that he can, visit museums, go to concerts and also he loves to travel to any part. his dream is know all Chile or big part of it before he goes out of Chile.  He likes bears.