So today I got an email from my school informing me on when my A-Level results are published (for those of you doing A-Levels, I bet you're all VERY excited.) These results pretty much decide my future, and restrict me or permit me to apply to those universities which are my top choice for (see picture above) architecture. In all honesty, I wasn't at all sure as to whether architeccture was for me: I struggle with technology, I've looked at student maquets and they seem mundane, bland, and I had never really had a true passion for buildings. Nevertheless, I considered what I was good at at school and architecture pretty much sums it up. So I thought, maybe it will do it for me at uni? That's when I decided to look into the facet of architecture that I like most: design. I spoke to architecture students, I am more or less informed on how architecture courses vary in my Spain and in the UK, and I've even been given optional homework to do over the summer by and architect; looking at styles of the forefathers of architecture: Le Corbusier, Aalto, Van de Rohe, Lloyd Wright...The list goes on to include modern architects such as Gehry, Foster (a personal favorite) and Chipperfield. Before doing all this extense research however, I drew. Drawing relaxes me. I went to TIger one day and purchased a Moleskine imitation for two euros and went out and drew Madrid's Palacio Real, Plaza de Castilla, Palacio de Correos... And I came across a gorgeous picture which balances classic architecture and modern architecture in central London. It took me a long while and someday I will finish the drawing (ode to Foster's Gherkin). But in a nutshell, the drawing above was the starting point of my architecture-bound state of mind.