[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r7mkSNRenE] Wow, check out the above video! This and more exciting news from the seemingly tireless Hidenori Watanave: “I and student team of Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. are developing 3D image database of “Oscar Niemeyer” on SL (prototype). This is an official art project of “The 100th anniversary of exchanging between Japan and Brazil”. [...]
Read more[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw0zDu28kzE] Check out Mario Gerosa’s interview, part of a Mission completed in the CheckinArchitecture project, submitted by Fabio Falzone and Jacopo Fontana. From their YouTube description: “But what about traveling in the virtual worlds today? During the 80s, it was a trend to refer to traveling in virtual reality like a physical voyage, where the [...]
Read moreThis just in from Lotja Loon: Thursday, 07-17-2008, 22.00 h european time, Campus Seccondlearning, Indire http://slurl.com/secondlife/INDIRE/94/114/23 Antoni Gaudí – there are no straight lines in nature Antoni Gaudí (1852 – 1926), most outstanding representative of “Modernisme Catalá” and his idea of nature as a replica of living environment for humans will be presented and the [...]
Read moreWe had an outstanding range of community-submitted resources this week! Thanks so much for sharing the inside scoop on these projects, and keep it up! It all started with Lotja Loon telling us about ‘Architecture and Design Classes: Bauhaus, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Hundertwasser Then we had a tour of the excellent TowerVision project, [...]
Read moreMartin Purnell and Associates, a real life development firm located in Chicago, Illinois, opens virtual office on the Etopia sim in Second Life. The construction is nearly complete on the virtual model of the Future Green Chatham homes. They hope to begin building the home in real life sometime early next year (click any screenshot [...]
Read more[youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHWMapSAHSU] This just in from Hidenori Watanave (including video above): “Yesterday I invited “Atelier Ten Architects” for my laboratory of Tokyo Metropolitan University, and they made a special lecture of “Architecture in physical world / virtual worlds”. They are “Real” architect that had produced many architectural projects in physical world, and also, they [...]
Read moreThis just in from Bennet Dynamo, who created an incredible gallery for this exhibit (see more screenshots below): “I am honored to host the first show at the foundation gallery on depo park 4 presenting a selection of Lucien Herve’s fine photography of Palladio’s Architecture July 12 at 1pm will mark our preview show and [...]
Read moreWe really, really need your help on this one! I am confident that if the readers of this blog collectively vote as a unified voice to push 3D Model Interoperability as a priority item for Linden Lab, we will be heard. You all know that Importing and exporting models is currently the biggest bottleneck preventing [...]
Read moreWOW. If you couldn’t join us today, I strongly urge you to make some time to check this project out. To truly comprehend the depth and history of this project, you have to spend some time there. It takes some time to develop… it came to me in layers. Sure, we’ve seen great real-life replication [...]
Read moreReal life Social Scientist and Historian Lotja Loon continues this excellent thread of presentations with the upcoming ‘Frank Lloyd – What on earth is “organic architecture”? ‘ lecture. Check out Lotja’s blog for more information, and read the invite for the next presentation below: http://lotja-loon.blogspot.com/ From Lotja Loon: INVITATION ————————————————————————— Thursday, 07-10-2008, 22.00 h GMZ, [...]
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