Liquid Artifacts: Architecture in Virtual Worlds

Event Note: Brouchoud's commissioned installation for the Phoenix Scratch series, an extension of the Exeter Phoenix ‘2nd Live’ project and his current reflexive project in Second Life®, opens 6:30-7:30 pm GMT, Monday, 1 December 2008.

New to virtual world construction? Teleport to the new Architecture Islands sandbox! If you're just getting started Second Life®, this is a great location to learn the ropes and get to know the building tools!

Background Reading and Videos

• Joh Brouchoud's blog The Arch
• Jon Brouchoud on Physical Replication
• Jon Brouchoud on Reshaping our Buildings
• Teleport to the Gallery of Reflexive Architecture in Second Life®.
• Video of a walk through of reflexive architecture.
• About Jon Brouchoud's commissioned reflexive installation for the Phoenix Scratch series, an extension of the Exeter Phoenix ‘2nd Live’ project (opens 6.30-7.30pm GMT, Monday, 1 December 2008).
• More about the new installation at the 2nd Live website.
• About Studio Wikitecture
• Studio Wikitecture
• Slide show on Studio Wikitecture's decentralized approach to architecture.
• Jon Brouchoud featured in Business Week.
• O’Reilly Radar Wikitecture - Radical Collaboration in Architecture.
• Wikitecture featured in Architectural Record.
• Video on YouTube: Demo of Wikitecture
• View the graphics describing Wikitecture 3.0 Nepal, and the international competition.
• Studio Wikitecture screenshots and final boards in the Open Architecture Challenge on Flickr
• Wikitecture 4.0 project for the University of Alabama: Reinventing the Virtual Classroom
• Crescendo Design
• Kirsten Kiser's arcspace.com
• About arcspace.com
• Kiser's magazine on the Sønderborg Harbor Masterplan
• Digital Project: Frank Gehry’s Vision
• Bamboo Project
• NPIRL on 3D meshes

Visit Virtual Worlds

• Teleport to Architecture Island gathering place in Second Life®.
• Teleport to the Architecture Islands sandbox in Second Life®.
• Teleport to Crescendo Design headquarters in Second Life®.
• Teleport to the arcspace gallery in Second Life®.

Guest Biographies

Jon Brouchoud (Keystone Bouchard in Second Life) is a freelance virtual architect and founder of Crescendo Design, a studio specialized in creating innovative, cost effective architecture and strategies for virtual reality platforms such as Second Life and OpenSIM.

Jon's work as an evangelist for virtual architecture has focused on the convergence of architecture, virtual worlds and augmented reality. He has collaborated on a wide range of virtual reality projects while working as Clear Ink's 3D Experience Architect, including the U.S. House of Representatives, Autodesk Island, Linden Lab Headquarters, TED Island and more. He has also helped coordinate Second Life events for Cameron Sinclair (Habitat for Humanity) Sergio Palleroni (University of Texas School of Architecture), Chris Luebkeman (ARUP), Phil Bernstein (VP Autodesk), Carl Bass, (Autodesk CEO), John Gage (VP Sun Microsystems), and U.S. Congressman George Miller.

He is author of 'The Arch' blog ( http://www.archsl.wordpress.com ), founder of Architecture Islands, an incubator for architects and designers in virtual worlds, and also leads the Architecture in Second Life community group. He is co-founder of Studio Wikitecture, a Web 2.0 based architectural collaboration methodology. His 'Nutrihouse' design was chosen for construction in the Cradle-to-Cradle Home competition from over 625 entries worldwide. He also won 3rd place for his entry in the Tuscon Gateway International Design Competition. Jon has a Master of Architecture degree from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

arcspace.com publisher Kirsten Kiser is an architect and independent curator. She received her B-Arch from SCI-ARC and worked on an independent project for her Masters of Architecture. After practicing architecture in Los Angeles and New York she opened and managed Kirsten Kiser Gallery for Architecture in Los Angeles during the 1980's. She is the founder of the Architecture Park Kolonihaven, developed when Copenhagen was Cultural Capital in 1996, now under construction at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. Prior to arcspace she was the European Editor-in-Chief for Design Architecture.

Credits

Thanks to Harper Beresford for photos used in this week's Metanomics.