Hello! My name is Antonio Almansa Cocera, I am a first year architecture student.
This is my first contact with a blog, I will do what I can.
As for me, I’m a pretty ordinary teenager; 18 years old, I like to party with my friends, music and little else.
As for the decision to study architecture, it came to me when I was very young. At the age of 8-9, it was already very clear to me that when I grew up I wanted to be an architect, so much so that since then I have felt like one. All this time has been quite nice, drawing my first projects on bar napkins, looking for and studying buildings that caught my attention on the street, or watching thousands of videos on YouTube about architectural styles or projects.
I don’t consider myself a creative person, I would be lying if I said so, but I do see myself as someone sentimental, without fear of getting emotional and easily finding beauty in things. This is why music has been a key piece in my emotional maturity (in the process of going from a child to an adult).
I will always thank my parents for playing flamenco to me when I was little, I think that this style of music has forged my way of being. It has opened my eyes to my «bohemian self». I began to play the guitar, to approach other arts such as poetry (especially Lorca, closely linked to flamenco) or architecture related to Andalusian culture (Al-Andalus). Arabic architecture, therefore, is one of my favorite styles.
Here are some of the artists that inspire me the most:
I am also a lover of painting, I declare myself a special fan of Sorolla. In any of his works I smell the Valencian spring, I feel the water soaking my feet on the seashore and modernist Valencia comes to mind; I like few things more than walking around Valencia and ending up with a pain in my neck from going through it falling in love with each facade.
Speaking of painting, I had a season in which I tried to learn to draw and well, it was just an attempt; Here are some examples of what I can do now:
Now I’m trying to improve my architectural drawing, although it seems that I still have a lot to improve…
As for the social aspect, I am not an extroverted person, so I am not one of many friends, that does not worry me. Because of the way I am, I have few friends but I wouldn’t change them for anything, just as I know that they don’t either, and that gives me a lot of security and makes me quite proud of myself.