by Jon Brouchoud | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
Virtual Architecture 101 is a free, interactive, self guided, educational installation in Second Life, designed to provide visitors with a sampling of architectural fundamentals, design processes, strategies and best practices for creating effective virtual world projects.
by Jon Brouchoud | Jan 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
All it takes is a catalyst. For the past 48 hours, this empty parcel came to life with a group of designers, architects and artists from around the world, who imprinted this build with their creativity – riffing and building on what others had created, and...
by Jon Brouchoud | Nov 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
The machinima featured above does a great job of showcasing the new ExploreIt! project, opening this weekend (more info about the opening event below!). Santa Barbara City College challenged us to figure out how to leverage the immersive capacity of a virtual...
by Jon Brouchoud | Oct 13, 2009 | Uncategorized
The United States Department of State Bureau of International Information Programs invites you to attend: “Architectural Design and International Collaboration in Virtual Worlds.” The panel will discuss how architects utilize virtual technologies for international development partnerships. Panelists from various countries will explore the efficiency of virtual worlds and shared 3D design platforms as environments conducive to cross-cultural collaboration.
by Jon Brouchoud | Sep 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
This Second Life event should be a pretty interesting, held October 2nd at 12 PM PDT, 21:00 PM CEDT, at this slurl. It will be moderated by Roy Philbin from Second Interest, and features the following panel: Kirsten Kiser, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of arcspace.com...
by Jon Brouchoud | Aug 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here are some screenshots of a 3 hour charrette based on the idea of ‘Paper Architecture’ in cyberspace. The sim I’m building on was recently sold, and the build could disappear at any moment, so the exercise is joined by a keen sense of detachment,...
by Jon Brouchoud | Jun 26, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here is a slideshow (link) from today’s panel/tour – “Architecture: The Impossible Made Possible,” organized by Bettina Tizzy and Not Possible in Real Life (NPIRL). Thank you Bettina, and to all who...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here is a video of the presentation I gave last weekend at the VWBPE convention , posted by tree.tv, in both a streaming format and high-def download, available here: http://www.treet.tv/shows/bpe/bpe2009_varchitecture_27mar09/ Other presentations captured by Tree.tv...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
Welcome to ARCHviews, a new podcast format where I take to the streets of the metaverse and talk with architects and designers exploring architecture of all forms – real or virtual. Today I talk to Kirsten Kiser, editor-in-chief of arcspace.com about her...
by Jon Brouchoud | Mar 2, 2009 | Uncategorized
It happened exactly 1 year, to the day I first contacted Jani Pirkola former project manager of the Realxtend team. I heard rumors late in 2007 that they had goals to accelerate the development of the ‘opensim’ platform, and one of their priorities was 3D...