Architecture in Second Life Is a World All Its Own
A teaching tool, a practice aid, and a game-changing reinterpretation of design—Second Life is leading architecture into a new realm of possibilities
How do you . . . use Second Life as a design and teaching tool?
Summary: The online interactive software program Second Life has become an emerging place of architecture research that ranges from a practice tool to an open-ended exploration of design context and expression. Especially in architecture schools, its immersive 3D environments allow users to conceptualize and design a space quickly, thus opening it up for investigation by other users, which allows designers to see how it will be used and how people will circulate through it.
Featuring:
DOER’S PROFILE
Terry Beaubois, AIA
Summary: Terry Beaubois, AIA, is the director of the Creative Research Lab at Montana State University. Beaubois teaches an architecture course in the virtual environment of Second Life® that combines students from the schools of architecture and design, art, music, and film and photography. Beaubois also is the sole practitioner at Terry A. Beaubois, AIA and Associates in the San Francisco Bay area.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The AIA Discovers Second Life
clipped from: http://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/
