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Building a green future

By Fritzie Marie C. Amar, Maria Joanna Angela D. Cruz, and James C. Talon

THE REALITY is that a small part of nature is usually sacrificed to make way for man-made structures, as environment and infrastructure are locked in a constant tug-of-war for space. Thankfully, new innovations in architecture have made it possible for the two to co-exist and even complement each other.

These innovations were shown in the symposium “Asian Green Cities: Visions of the Modern World,” last January 30 at the Medicine Auditorium. Organized by Architecture Network (Archinet), a local student organization of the College of Architecture, the symposium stressed the crucial role of architects in creating “sustainable architecture” to address environmental concerns. read more »

Weaving abstractions

By James C. Talon

THOMASIAN painter Jane Arrieta-Ebarle deviates from her usual ethnic art form and focuses on the interplay of lines and colors in her third solo exhibit, Hibla Series 1, staged at the SM Megamall Renaissance Gallery from January 9 to 30.

An upshot of her previous Pinagmulan collection mounted at the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences last July, Hibla marked the artist’s transition in theme, from archaic ethnic patterns to colorful abstractions as seen in the nine artworks that comprised the exhibit.

“I never did Hibla on purpose,” Ebarle confessed, explaining that the art style formed by itself. “It was as if an unseen hand guided me all throughout. The experience of creating was ethereal as it was unfathomable.” read more »

A different kind of 'Education'

By James C. Talon

A 16-YEAR-old schoolgirl must choose between her aspirations for higher learning or pursuing a romantic relationship with an older man. Will education prevail or will love triumph in the end?

This is the premise Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig tries to get across in An Education, a coming-of-age drama that appears charming on the surface, but also packs a hard-hitting lesson on the blurred line between maturity and innocence. read more »

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