Alfonso Zelaya

          A Festival, Exhibition, concert or Show You Saw Since I was a kid I have been surrounded by music and gigs, my father use to play in a progressive rock band and in a cumbia band. He also its a classical guitar player, so my taste in music developed thanks to those particular mix of sounds. I always try to attend as many concerts as i can, especially the self-managed ones and obviously those organized by my friends. Nevertheless I have to attend once in the year a big gig with my father, thats a special tradition we have. I think the concert I enjoy the most was King Crimson on 2019, it was indescribable, taking out of the equation that they are monsters on their instruments, I never heard something like that before in a gig. Besides i born with the CD under my arm, so listen that 3 hours of concert with my father, his friends and my cousin was exciting. This 70s band had never played in Chile and South america before, along all of these years, therefor...

 Sometimes we spend so much time thinking about what our ideal job would be, what topics we would like to investigate in the future, which I don't think is bad, in this way we are exploring our tastes and interests. But the reality is that you never know what you will find on the way, and I am not talking about destination, I mean that interests and tastes are constantly changing and it is something natural and I think that being closed to an idea does not allows exploration. In my case, studying architecture I have found many topics that I would like to investigate or work on in the future, and more and more topics are appearing, and I suppose that in the 4 years that I have left in my career, more and more will appear. So thinking about an ideal job at this point I think is unnecessary, even so I would like to share certain things that I imagine for the near future. Despite not being my ideal job as an architect, I would like to work for a couple of years in an architecture offic...

 Since I was a child I have not been very attached to technology, I could say that my relationship with her died with my dear play station 2, if we talk about a healthy relationship of course. I feel that my last 7 years I have been immersed in technology in a very insane way, who has not been mesmerized on instagram or some years ago, on facebook, doing nothing, consuming until feeling consumed, or worse, not realizing that we are consumed. Since this generation was born, it has been justified that technology is a very useful tool, and I do not deny it, but let's be honest, most of the time on the Internet we are not doing something of our own free will and if we add that the excess of information denies the meaning of things, we are consuming something that we cannot digest against our will. As an architecture student I have had to familiariza myself with the computer, contrary to how I thought, it has not been a bad experience, I think that seeing it as something I have to ...

The truth is, I think tourism is quite complex because there are 2 cities, the one that is shown to us and the real one, in other words the tourist cities play to show only what they want to show. Thinking about which place I would like to visit, there is a case that catches my attention, which is New York. Despite having a fairly rigid urban model and that as it grows it generates a very high level of segregation, it has perhaps the highest level of cultural friction in the World. It is undeniable that New York is the epicenter of music, every musician, aspires to be in this city, this is what captivates me to know this city, as despite the evident social segregation reflected in the city (some theorists call it the urban jungle) there is such a dynamic arts movement If I could live in this place for a while, obviously I would visit the most iconic places where my favourite musicians have played, such as the blue note, village vanguard or birdland, but I think that in any club, espec...

Its been a while since the last blog, well, to begin, I would like to tell you that I´m not a lover of photos, I do not share my life through networks and I think it is more significant when we inhabit and frame the moment whit our eyes and give it the time that deserves the observation. Photographing is not something that crosses my mind when I,m experiencing somenthing special. When I enter to Arquitecture, the croquis or sketch gave meaning to this way of thinking, I think that a sketch gives a timeless dimension to the observation,  But there are times when my mind pick up the phone and just take a picture and this is the case, in the summer of 2020 before the pandemic I took my backpack and with a friend we went for a few days and we got to Bariloche. This photo means a lot to me for the simple fact that trip was very important in my life, but remembering the photo, I remember that day we spent the night in that lake, which had private houses around it, so we were very scared ...

Hi teacher and classmates, today I am going to introduce myself, so, my name is Alfonso Zelaya, I was born in La Serena on January 26, 2001 but all of my life i lived in a small town called Nogales. I would not dare to say that my town is a dormitory town where people only live at night, because the population is mainly long-lived and the employment rates exist, but many people work in other nearly towns and it is the case of my parents for which I always studied in other towns especifically in Calera on my first 3 years and in Quillota for the rest of my school years, In total i studied in 4 schools, yeah, I know that its a lot but I have good memories of all of them and i keep friends of all of these. Two of these changes were my parents's desition, and the final change it was my decision and I changed in 4to medio. It was in that year, 2018, my last year in school, that I decided to start to play some instrument, i always love music but I never attempt to play any instrument, bu...