by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
WOW. If you couldn’t join us today, I strongly urge you to make some time to check this project out. To truly comprehend the depth and history of this project, you have to spend some time there. It takes some time to develop… it came to me in layers. ...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 7, 2008 | Uncategorized
Real life Social Scientist and Historian Lotja Loon continues this excellent thread of presentations with the upcoming ‘Frank Lloyd – What on earth is “organic architecture”? ‘ lecture. Check out Lotja’s blog for more information, and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 2, 2008 | Uncategorized
I was absolutely blown away by the projects presented on this panel, and am relieved there seems to be consensus that we need to have more discussions like this soon. Just when I think I’ve got my finger on the pulse of professional architecture and design work...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
If you are even remotely interested in the use of virtual worlds to augment the professional practice of architecture, you won’t want to miss this! On July 9th, at 2:00pm SL-time (PDT), Bernd Bötzel (Vision Planer in SL), architect, project developer and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
In a nice little twist of serendipity, a comment on this post led me to this site, where I found this: “the main reason SGG (Saint Gobain Glass) is now in Second Life is to share ideas and invent their next generation of products with a great focus on...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
I’ve known Pam Broviak, a city engineer/director of public works in real life, and founder of the Public Works group in Second Life for quite a while now, and never cease to be amazed by the amount of energy and creative ideas she brings to Second Life. If you...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
I’m super excited to have the opportunity to be on a panel for Second Life’s 5th birthday party, called “Urbanism, Architecture, Planning: How Second Life Can Help Build the Urban Landscape of the First Life–and Vice Versa” See you...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Be sure to ‘Like’ Arch Virtual on Facebook to learn more about architecture virtual worlds! You can now visit a free virtual tour of Villa Tugenhdat, by Mies van der Rohe, by clicking HERE! The model was downloaded the model from Google 3D Warehouse...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
[update: over at NWN, this post includes an explanation of how to get dynamic shadows running on your machine, as well as some ideas regarding the potential troubles and opportunities associated with dynamic shadows] I noticed this over on Torley’s blog. Dynamic...
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by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
From Studio Wikitecture blog: It is with great pleasure I bring you the news that Studio Wikitecture’s entry in the Open Architecture Network Challenge was awarded the ‘Founder’s Award’ as well as ‘3rd Place’ for our design of the Nyaya Tele-Medicine facility in...
