by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 31, 2007 | Uncategorized
Tomorrow, Ryan Schultz and I are heading to Milwaukee to demonstrate Second Life to the American Institute of Architecture Students FORUM convention. For my part, I put together a survey of everything I could think of related to architecture in SL, and Ryan put...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
I could be wrong, but I suspect there might be a few readers who still haven’t been in Second Life, or tried and didn’t have a very good time. Just in case you change your mind, I’d like to share this link from fellow blogger and good friend of mine...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
“Aura Lily has been using Second Life to recreate the artifacts and architecture of ancient Egypt. Using maps drawn by one of Napoleon’s artist engineers, she’s also working on an accurate recreation of temples and buildings on the island of Philae. Aura’s work...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
Interesting story via SLNN.com about RL Architect DB Bailey. Screenshots also via SLNN.com Bailey says SL is ”unbelievably liberating for an architect, a dream.” I couldn’t agree more! [update: after finally having a chance to catch up on my reading, I...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
I was a little late on the draw, but there is an interesting post and comment thread over on GridBlog. Lordfly posts some very insightful thoughts about virtual architecture, competitions, functionality in SL and more. What are your thoughts?...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 12, 2007 | Uncategorized
[blip.tv ?posts_id=540318&dest=20131]Here is a video I made during the University of Texas, Austin Alley Flat Initiative presentation. I have to apologize for the video and sound quality, but I really wanted to share this since it was a very inspirational tour and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here is a transcript of Friday’s Wikitecture meeting on Friday (link), and here is a slideshow (link). The in-world 3D wiki portion of the open source architecture project is advancing nicely, as is the web forum. We have collaboratively assembled a significant...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
The University of Texas and a community in East Austin recently announced an exciting collaboration in Second Life. The Alley Flat Initiative <http://thealleyflatinitiative.org/> is a real-world project that combines cutting-edge architectural designs,...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
The Architecture Islands of Second Life have seen no shortage of humanitarian aid projects this year! First we built the Porchdog (machinima) for Cameron Sinclair’s Second Life appearance. Then, the Wikitecture group started work on a telemedical center for a...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
submitted by ‘The Tracer’ “So I began to think about Gehry and his ideas of form and beauty as it pertains to space. The ideas behind his aesthetics are unmatched, but the functionality of his builds in RL are somewhat unsuccessful. Therefore, in no...
