by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
A very interesting post by IBM Eightbar’s Ian Hughes (epredator Potato) on Terra Nova regarding the perceived differences and similarities between real life corporate environments and ‘games’ or virtual worlds. Is there an architectural equivalent to...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
We’ve now added a shared Google Calendar for all things architecture and design in Second Life. Please let me know of upcoming events the group would be interested in, and I’ll add it here!...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 30, 2007 | Uncategorized
Every Thursday at 6:00 PM SL-Time (PDT) The Architecture group will be hosting weekly meetings, starting this week in the Wikitecture gathering space on Architecture Island. If you are interested in moderating a parallel meeting to accomodate additional time zones, or...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 29, 2007 | Uncategorized
This is an exception to the norm for The Arch, but I can’t resist – I think it’s a truly native use of SL, and well worth a visit. If Googie Architecture, sci-fi, horror and/or good-bad old school cinema is your thing, Sky Cinema fly-in theater will...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
Great post by Mitch Wagner (link) on InformationWeek about the GeekMeet presentation I gave at Dr. Dobbs on ‘Reflexive Architecture’. The entire event was conducted using Second Life’s new Voice Client in the Firstlook Viewer (download here). It...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
….will be a headline on this blog someday. We’re not there (yet), but now that I have your attention, I have a favor to ask. For the time being, let’s not focus on what we can’t do in Second Life, and take a look at what we can do there that we can’t as easily or as...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
Virtual Interactive Architectures: Emergent Forms – self organizing structures “…I started thinking about how we could take advantage of the unique environmental characteristics of SL to create a self-organizing emergent structure. This structure...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
UgoTrade has been doing some interesting research and reporting on virtual architecture, including a new post today (link) including coverage of the reflexive architecture installation, the Cntrl-Shift-07 competition, Theory Shaw, the Wikitecture progress, as well as...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
Tomorrow, July 24th at 8AM SL-Time (PDT) I’ll be giving a demo of the ‘Reflexive Architecture’ interactive installation I’ve been working on as an extension of the Architectural Jazz piece. In real life, we typically experience architecture and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
Great post over at Kzero about the rapidly growing number of real life city recreation and augmentation projects currently underway in Second Life. Read it HERE. All is well on the virtual frontier for architects and...
