News From Arch Virtual

[update...transcript posted] Tom Portante will be giving a presentation about lessons he has learned through 20 years of experience with online communities today at 2:00 SL-time. During the last Community Development presentation, we heard Lys Ware of Stanford...

If I had to isolate the most commonly held concern real life architects have with building their projects in Second Life, it's that the building tools are too limiting. They claim that realistic architecture is difficult, or even impossible to achieve using the...

Palladio's Villa Venete, by Alfredo Desideri is now under construction on Architecture Island. Alfredo started his Second Life explorations through a Palladianesque installation (still rezzed on the island), and a tiny replica. The model shown here is still under...

Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, by Anton Brody is one to keep an eye on.  The build already looks very promising. Given his careful attention to detail, and deep concern for historical accuracy, it should have been no surprise that Anton started working in Second Life...

I've posted a transcript is posted on a Page on the left column. It was quite an interesting, and productive conversation! Every time we meet like this, I'm reminded that we really should be having more meetings! I'll add a few thoughts on the meeting's conclusions...

Thursday, February 15: 6:30 pm SL-Time in the RL Architects gathering space HERE. (Map 'The Homestead' in SL) First, a welcome to new members of the group! Newbie real life architects from around the world are showing up in Second Life on an almost daily basis now,...

It was early in 2001, and I was (hopefully) about to complete my final semester of graduate school at UW-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Everyone in my studio was busy putting the finishing touches on the carefully crafted basswood models they had...

I just realized I've never posted this Autodesk University presentation backup movie (previously blogged).