News From Arch Virtual

Join Simran Sethi, host of "The Green" on the Sundance Channel, in Second Life for weekly discussion forums on environmental issues and solutions. Topic: BUILD - How can we "green" our own homes? Where: "The Green" forum takes place in the Main Screening Room on...

Cameron Sinclair, 2006 TED Prize winner, Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity, co-editor of the book 'Design Like You Give A Damn' and contributing writer for Worldchanging.com will be joined by Sun Microsystems founder John Gage in a live audio discussion...

Following up on the premise of the 'Virtual Architecture as the Ultimate Green' concept, I wrote some additional thoughts in a comment to a thread on the sustainability or ecological footprint of virtual worlds over at Clickable Culture, pasted below - originally...

[Update: 9am morning session transcript posted HERE. Reminder: the next session will be held at 6pm SL-time 4/19/07.] Can Architects (or designers in general) design a building collectively? The ‘RL Architects in SL’ group would like your help in trying to answer this...

Here is a Second Life classic. Previously covered here and here, with video posted here. Visited it in SL here. Given its RL Architectural nature, I think Octal Kahn's reconstruction of Gregory Ain's Mar Vista Residence deserves a place on The Arch. Photos in the...

Architects from Plovan (Poland), Stockholm (Sweden), Cairo (Egypt), London (England), Florence (Italy), Copenhagen (Denmark), Alberta (Canada), Boston, Berkeley, Virginia, Colorado, Chicago, and Seattle (US) came to discuss 3D Import Tools (or lack thereof!). Check...

Thursday, March 22nd @ Architecture Island (slurl) 10:00 AM SL-time (hosted by European Virtual Architects) AND 7:00 PM SL-time As architects and designers, most of us long for the advent of a 3D import tool. In what ways would such a tool impact the architectural...

We will be streaming live presentations by architects Zaha Hadid, Elizabeth Diller and lots of other incredible speakers on our Allston sim from the TED conference in Monterey. The presentation schedule can be found here: TED Conference Schedule:...

Like every architect who visits Architecture Island, Daren Srange's first question was 'is there a way to import existing 3D models? Instead of dwelling on the setbacks of learning the in-world building tools, Daren immediately 'got it' and embraced the tools, making...

Lately it seems the content of this blog could remain fairly constant even if I were to only report the formation of new architecture-related groups in Second Life! The rapidly growing awareness of the potential for architects to use SL as a professional tool is very...

The Tracer, founder of SLSA, recently shared coordinates with the new school's location in Second Life. The build is still under construction, but appears to be quite an expressive place. The Tracer has clearly taken steps toward transcending the habit of replicating...

Designer Dingson has completed his installation of the Farnsworth House on Architecture Island in Second Life. Designer Dingson: "I worked with Troi Timtam on the landscaping (who was wonderful), she chose to use the tall thin white barked trees so as to echo the...