SPANISH COURSES LEVELS PRINCIPIANTES I. II. III. IV Objective: Students will achieve a command of vocabulary and basic grammatical structures, allowing them to give and receive information; travel and communicate independently. Note: The teacher will use visual material and will emphasize pronunciation. DEMO CLASSES (without sound) Paste the link in your browser and practice your Spanish. Nouns http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/35652-Sustantivos ¿Qué hora es? http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/35699-191-Que-hora-es Greetings http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/35700-Greetings-Los-Saludos INTERMEDIO S I. II. II. IV General Objective: The student will be able to use complex structures and communicative effectively in various situations. AVANZADOS I. II. II. IV A General Objective: At this level the students will be proficient in using simple and pluperfect tenses in the indicative mood, as well as the imperative in the present tense. The students should show fluidity in conversation and

Chat-room: Blogueros cara a cara En el verano de 2007, Joseph Grima (Storefront for Architecture & Design) y blogueros de BLDGBLOG (Los Ángeles), City of Sound (Londres), Inhabitat (Nueva York) y Subtopia (San Francisco) se unieron, dando vida a Postopolis!, un evento que reunió a personas de muy diversas disciplinas, ligadas a temas como el paisaje y el entorno construido. Este encuentro de cinco días se llevó a cabo en la sede de Storefront, en Nueva York, y se repitió el verano pasado en la azotea del Standard Hotel en Los Ángeles. En vez de reforzar las fronteras disciplinarias que han determinado y limitado la discussion sobre las ciudades, Postopolis! Creó un espacio para efectuar conexiones inesperadas entre blogueros, arquitectos, diseñadores, urbanistas, científicos, djs y videojugadores. A continuación presentamos unas breves reflexiones sobre los blogs y la génesis de Postopolis!, del ex director de Storefront, Joseph Grima, y el autor de BLDG BLOG, Geoff Manaugh. Joseph

The Fountainhead is a Novel written by Ayn Rand, and it deals with the struggle of an Architect against old molds. He is one of the pioneers of a new style at the beginning of the XX century Here are summaries of the chapters Part I: Chapters 1–5 Summary: Chapter 1 Howard Roark, a stern-faced young man, stands naked at the edge of a granite cliff. The year is 1922 and Roark has just been expelled from architecture school at the Stanton Institute of Technology. Although Roark excels in engineering and mathematics, he is an individualist whose modern designs run contrary to everything his school teaches. After serenely contemplating his future, Roark returns to his room in a local boardinghouse to work on his drawings. His designs seem severe and simple, but the structures are actually complex. Roark forgets that he has a meeting with the Dean of the college until his landlady, Mrs. Keating, whose son Peter is also a student at the architecture school, reminds him. Roark goes to see the