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...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
The Architecture Island annex is almost complete, and rental land will be available within the next few days! Over half of it is already spoken for, but we still have a large 1/4 island lots available, as well as a handful of smaller 8,000 sqm parcels, and some...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
One of the best parts of being involved with Second Life are those days when something new is announced, or you discover something that just blows you away. Today is one of those days. I just found out that the premiere architecture blog arcspace.com is launching a...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
Here’s another great resource for the blogroll: Metaverse Territories From a recent post: “those of us who still have hope that the new territories of social and spatial experimentation that virtual worlds are shaping up to be, are an opportunity to...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jul 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
Winston Churchill’s epic statement, “We shape our buildings and afterwards, our buildings shape us,” is a fantastic observation of the architectural phenomenon, illuminating the fact that physical architecture is a static artifact and continues to...
