by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
A truly remarkable, bar-raising project that demonstrates the power and potential for architectural collaboration and education in virtual environmnents. More about the project HERE, HERE, and HERE – along with this write-up inArchitectural Record earlier this...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Over the past six months, Draxtor Despres has been carefully documenting the collaborative work of students from Ain Shams University and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles – led by Amr Attia, David Denton, and Kara Bartelt. Drax is partnering...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Egyptian and American architecture students recently completed a course using the virtual world Second Life to facilitate long distance collaboration within an online, realtime 3D environment. With funding from the U.S. State Department, California-based...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Starting today, we have a new Studio Wikitecture project! We’re going to be entering another Open Architecture Network design competition, Safe Trestles.. we need YOUR help!
by Jon Brouchoud | Feb 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Ironically, one of the most unique and memorable highlights of my time spent exploring virtual worlds had to do with music, not architecture. The ‘Wikisonic’ collaborative music installation, first prototyped in Second Life with help from John Street was...
by Jon Brouchoud | Feb 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Following part 1, part 2 and part 3 – posted almost 2 years ago, I wanted to combine a few references from this week that underscore the premise of the incoming exodus to the virtual workplace. First, an excerpt from an ‘All Tech Considered’ post,...
by Jon Brouchoud | Dec 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
The US Department of State hosted another panel discussion in Second Life this month, digging into a topic I think has great potential – ‘Virtual Worlds as Green Workplaces.’ Here is yet another outstanding machinima by Draxtor Despres, covering...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’ll be doing a Wikitecture presentation today at 9am SLT (PDT) for the Grondstedt Group’s ‘Train for Success’ series. It will be held on Architecture Island inside of our new meeting space at 9am SLT today (November 5) at this...
by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
What an honor it was to have been included in this panel discussion, and to have a chance to hear more about the exciting work being done by the other panelists using virtual worlds in professional architectural practice and education. I think it was an important and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Just for fun, I made this machinima of one of the more popular posts I wrote on my personal blog earlier this year, found here. Feel free to remix it!