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by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Egyptian and American architecture students recently completed a course using the virtual world Second Life to facilitate long distance collaboration within an online, realtime 3D environment. With funding from the U.S. State Department, California-based...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 4, 2009 | Uncategorized
From DB Bailey (David Denton, AIA) July 3, 2009 We’ve been back from Egypt several weeks now. The preliminary construction documents are being completed at PUD Consultants’ office in Cairo. I’ve been getting up very early in the morning to have two or three hours of...
by Jon Brouchoud | May 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
We are starting our fifth week of work here in Cairo. Construction proceeds in SL. We are rapidly running out of prims. The design is starting to be dictated by what looks best with the fewest prims – not an ideal situation. We anticipate a major presentation to our...
by Jon Brouchoud | Apr 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
David Denton, AIA – an architect from Marina Del Rey, California has been spending the past several weeks working on a project in Egypt. He has found virtual world modeling to be far more effective than traditional CAD or BIM applications in sharing ideas with...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here is a video of the presentation I gave last weekend at the VWBPE convention , posted by tree.tv, in both a streaming format and high-def download, available here: http://www.treet.tv/shows/bpe/bpe2009_varchitecture_27mar09/ Other presentations captured by Tree.tv...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Last week, I wrote about MellaniuM’s use of the Unreal engine in architectural visualization. Yesterday, the American Insitute of Architect’s newsletter AIArchitect covers another story about virtual worlds, this time about HKS’s decision to license...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Feb 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
The AIArchitect online resource for members of the American Institute of Architects recently published an excellent story about architecture in Second Life (read it here). In it, they talk about the work of Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, Assoc. AIA, who is the dean of...
by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
From Dakota Dreamscape: Welcome to the Dakota Skies Cultural Center ~~Chaplet Design Competition Theme: A Spiritual Respite Interpretation of theme is at the designer’s discretion but must be respectful and meditative. Contemplative but not religious. For a...
