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__**Don Quixote Restaurant**__ In the picture I see one big square where there is a restaurant; the restaurant’s name is Don Quixote, like the famous book of Miguel de Cervantes. In the square there are many people, they are walking and other are sitting outside the restaurant on the tables. Beside to restaurant there is a yellow big building and in front big palms. The buildings’ architecture is traditional; they have big windows and facades of light colors. The place is similar to typical town Mexican. media type="file" key="Sin título (5).wma" width="203" height="38"

**__SUMMARY about__****: __From atelier to e-telier: virtual design studios__ (by Jerry Laiserin)** In this article Jerry Laiserin talks about the e-teliers, these are the new trend of teaching virtual. The e-teliers, are represented by Virtual Design Studios (VDS), these studios are places online where the people can work through CAD (Computer Aided Design) and new technology to communication. These places gather all the features of the ateliers physicals, and allow what students and teachers no longer needs are in the same place at the same time. According to the author, Virtual design studios (VDS) promote “collaboration over competition, diversify student experiences”. From 1995 to 1997, with one publication of experiences in overlapping studios of several universities in the world, occurred evolution in the academy, through VDS. Then in 1997, Mary Lou Maher, Simeon Simoff, and Anna Cicognani wrote a landmark paper and subsequent monograph, Understanding Virtual Design Studios (Springer-Verlag, 1999), on VDS experiences at the Key Centre for Design Computing, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney; concluding that “the location of designers irrelevant … because the workspace of the studio is distributed across the net. Designers are able to enter the studio for interactive and noninteractive sessions connecting to the World Wide Web, multimedia mailers, and/or connecting to a video conferencing session.” The design collaboration may be single-task, in which each participant may work at asynchronous or synchronous (designing at different times or simultaneously). “Students see that though their distant peers may have different values and approaches to design, many fundamental aspects of the design process are unchanged around the world”, despite the distance “we get to glimpse a wider world.” “The virtual design studio also is important as we train our students for a global marketplace.” Dr. Vásquez de Velasco’s innovation in VDS is the Infinity Room which creates the illusion that studios hundreds or thousands of miles apart are just opposite halves of the same room. The ETH in Zurich, defines its use of VDS technology as a platform for creating a new hybrid of virtual and physical architecture for 2010, as the hand-rendered communication media of the original ateliers shaped the architecture, the virtual media of the e-telier will shape a new architecture of the digital age. **__Personal Opinion about__** **: __From atelier to e-telier: virtual design studios__ (by Jerry Laiserin)** I agree with the opinion of author, because I think what Virtual Design Studios are a excellent tool for learning at a distance, allowing students and teachers are connected from anyplace in the world, VDS allow work asynchronous or synchronous, depending the needs of the participants. It is a window into knowledge about new practices design and urban planning. Also promote the use of new technologies and teamwork. Is really incredible all things that we can do in the virtual world. But I think what everyday teachers need to remind students the most importance about face to face communication.

** Compare and Contrast CAD & BIM ** **CAD**: The mind of Cad is Computer aided design. CAD is a program for computer where the people can design through software anything that they like. CAD may be used to design in two-dimensional (2D) space and in three-dimensional (3D) space. **BIM:** The mind of Bim is Building information modeling, is “the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle”. The process produces the Building Information Model, which encompasses building geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, and quantities and properties of building components. Cad is similar to Bim, because both are program for computer, that allow design in three dimensions, all the process about generation building. The big difference between both programs is that Cad is program for design the physical part of building, in contrast Bim allows not only work whit the building geometry, because also allow work with characteristics based on data and minimize costs. media type="file" key="Sin título (6).wma" width="161" height="69"