by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Be sure to check out this month’s issue of Business Week’s ‘SmallBiz’ publication, for it’s cover story, “First Stop: Second Life,” which explores how several small business (including Crescendo Design!) are using Second Life...
by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Lotja Loon for sending her review of the replication of Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. by Ethos Erlanger and his and his partners Lox Salomon and Ty Jaehun. Screenshot by Derek Hotger,...
by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
In June, when I was on a panel discussion with Eric Gordon, during Linden Lab’s birthday celebration, I was very inspired and impressed with his work – especially given my own interest in the use of virtual worlds for collaboration. Now they are taking on...
by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
In a recent post, Caleb Booker suggests: “Wider adoption by architects is long overdue. Initial experiments in fast prototyping of architectural designs, and of bringing clients on very early tours, is very promising.” Obviously, we couldn’t agree...
by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
I haven’t had a chance to review this yet, but wanted to pass along right away a link to Digital Urban’s post announcing their newest in their series of UCL Working Papers available HERE. “The world of Geographic Information (GI) Science has changed....
by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
Darb Dabney is a veritable whirlwind of energy when it comes to mirroring Berkeley, California in a virtual environment. If avatars ever walk the streets of virtual Berkeley, there will be a gleeful Darb showing it off and giving tours! I am increasingly confident...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
[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...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
[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...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
This 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...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
We 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...