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July 7 - 3D Architecture: Physical and Virtual Practice

If you were building a house, you’d hire an architect. If you were building an immersive world, would you hire one too? Do architectural practices translate to a virtual environment? What’s different between the architecture of physical and virtual space? What principles could you take from the world of architecture to apply to your next in-world project? And how is real life architecture being influenced by virtuality?

The third in our Master Class series will be held on Wednesday, July 7 at 12pm PST Metanomics and will on 3D Architecture: Physical and Virtual Practice. The guests for this master class are immersive architects and researchers Jon Brouchoud and Terry Beaubois. You can watch the show live here the day of the broadcast, at the Metanomics Main Stage in Second Life or at one of Metanomic’s Event Partner location. Find all our Second life locations here.

The Metanomics Masterclass Series examines best practices in immersive development. This episode brings together a panel with expertise in both applying architectural principles to virtual worlds, and using virtual worlds for real life architectural practice.

Remedy Communications CEO Doug Thompson, known as Dusan Writer in Second Life, will host the second Master Class series at 12pm PST on Wednesday, July 7.

Guest Biographies

Jon Brouchoud

Jon Brouchoud (Keystone Bouchard in SL) is a freelance designer, co-founder of Linden Prize winning Studio Wikitecture, and founder of the ARCH Network. He holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His work focuses mainly on Second Life, OpenSim and Unity3D platforms, and he has worked with a wide variety of organizations, including Clear Ink, Linden Lab, Autodesk, TED, Santa Barbara City College, University of Alabama, Remedy Communications, EdTech Retreat, Exeter Phoenix, the U.S. House of Representatives, Sun Microsystems, and more. He is also responsible for Architecture Islands, the Gallery of Reflexive Architecture, and the award-winning Wikisonic installation at The Tech Museum in San Jose.

Brouchoud first started using virtual worlds in 2006, as part of his professional design practice, Crescendo Design. He has since strategized many applications for virtual worlds in real-world business and organizations, including projects for education, healthcare, government, advertising, and private enterprise.

More about Jon can be found on his CV, and he can be reached by email at info@archvirtual.com.

Terry Beaubois

Terry Beaubois, a real life architect, has been in Second Life as Tab Scott, since June 2005. Terry is an architect with over 35 years of experience.

He graduated from the University of Michigan, College of Architecture and Design with a Masters of Architecture Degree in 1973. Terry has practiced architecture in Ann Arbor Michigan; Boston, Massachusetts, and in Palo Alto and San Francisco, California.

Since 2005 Terry has been a professor in the School of Architecture at Montana State University (MSU) and since 2006, the Director of the Creative Research Lab at MSU.

Terry Beaubois and Tab Scott have introduced Second Life to students of the schools of art, music, film, and architecture, the MSU Business School, Landscape Planning and Design School, including teaching architectural students at MSU “digital collaboration” in Second Life for three years. Terry was a member of a Mellon Foundation meeting to discuss “Next-Generation Virtual Environments” and part of a meeting with the Library of Congress to discuss the “Archiving of Virtual Worlds.”

Tab Scott’s work in SL has been written about in Popular Science, Newsweek International, and Architectural Record and Terry has presented the CRLab’s work at the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), AIA (American Institute of Architects), and the NIBS (National Institute of Building Sciences). The Creative Research Lab is currently involved in the research for a sustainable, low-energy, disability-design house in Montana and is involved in a house project in Finland using the internet, some portions of which will be done using Second Life.

Terry can be reached at tbeaubois@montana.edu