News From Arch Virtual

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 amount...

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,...

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 poor...

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 other place do...

Join us for Remixing Catalhoyuk Day, a public program sponsored by OKAPI and the Berkeley Archaeologists at Catalhoyuk. Visit OKAPI Island in the 3-D virtual environment of Second Life and explore the past and present of Catalhoyuk, a 9000-year-old village located in...

Congrats to Maximilian Milosz - his faithful replication of the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe shows up on Second Life's home page!  It doesn't come up every time - you might have to hit refresh a few times to cycle to it.  http://www.secondlife.com

and Second Life looks better than ever.  Download the new FirstLook viewer HERE.

Head over to Autodesk Island (slurl), follow the red carpet to the end and drop a notecard with your avatar name into the last kiosk. You can also learn more about AU and find out how to meet other Second Lifers at this year's AU. Good Luck! [update: You must be in...

Where else can you experience work by architectural masters such as Terragni, Fuksas, Nervi, and Libera all together in a single composition? Experience Italy (EX.IT) is a massive Second Life build that is NOT to be missed! (slideshow HERE) The 9-sim campus is modeled...

and the Wiki-tree leaf matrix grows (slurl). . .

It doesn't appear to be published in an online edition yet, but will likely show up HERE when the time comes (the Spring edition is currently live).