GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

Hacking:   [Ha-King] gaining unauthorized access to data  in a system or personal computer I finally managed to "hack" into my own blog. ... I was locked out for a few months. I have been unable to access my blog since last May. We are now at the end of October and although snowed-under with end of semester, I have resolved to breaking back into my Guillermo-AM.blogspot ....  so far so good, it looks like I will manage to publish this few words I am writing just now. I recently received an email from one of my mates from London and my former neighbour at Bridges Hell... sorry, Hall at the University of Reading. Amongst his update and whereabouts,  John mentioned my blog... my unattended  blog drifting in cyberspace! Although I missed a few months of blog-posting still, I saved them into my local drive. The bad news (for you) is that I will be uploading them all - four months all at once!  Should I apologise? ... perhaps only if I manage to block th...

                  [METRO]rology: Forecasting Buildscape... ... the art and science of forecasting architectural business health.        My April blog depicts recent thoughts geared towards sustaining the practice of architecture in current turbulent economic climate. The following  weather maps are to better equip architectural practices, firms, ateliers, oraganisations, corporations, studios, büros... from the likes of SOM, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel or Norman  Foster to much more famous and well known "countless unknown studios"  to stabilise their rocking boats! Keywords: Architecture innovation, branding, client, economic climate, value of ideas, consulting, organisational psychology, culture, creativity, professional practice, market segmentation, value for money,  communicating cost, business sustainability.     Guillermo Aranda-Mena [1st April 2012...

There is no switch-off! It is like a disease. I know I need to stop but I can't. Some are clever ideas, others... quite stupid! They keep crossing my mind. Why is that? I ask myself. Why on earth I need to reinvent everything? Reinventing the wheel, reinventing the chair, reinventing chop stick, reinventing every frinking useless object that crosses my sight and I always start tinkering with this thought of 'uselessness' - THE breakthrough to grandiosity never arrives. It is sisyphist attempt to get somewhere, indulging myself, spending time, the time that no one can afford. Yet, I am here. In recent times I have been tinkering with a handful of design ideas. One idea is not enough, too many of them is just about right! I am greedy when it comes to collecting ideas ... then I don't know what the heck to do with them. Too many is never enough - and yet, they all end in a vacuum! A black hole, a void, a vacuum, yes, a vacuum of ideas... cueing to exist. Some will. T...