3rd annual CGarchitect.com Architectural Visualization Competition (AVC)

This 'competition' run by CGArchitect.com has a requirement that people enter their best images now to qualify! Qualification round is April 16-21. Actual competition will be from April 23 to June 30.

To quote the site: If you are one of the select few chosen from the qualification round you will be eligible to compete in the 2 final challenges. Full details and rules for each of these challenges will be posted in the CHALLENGES section of the competition site.

Know anyone who might be up for the challenge? Pass on the link...

In any case cgarchitect ought to be one of those 'favourites' in your del.icio.us account. Especially the 'resources' section which contains tutorials and other information designed to assist the development of better images...

It's rather sad that there are only two images labelled Light Studio in the gallery of 10's of 1000's of images: One of them is by Klaus from Lichtplaner - the people in Austria who produce the software:











There are however, 137 Mental ray images like this from Martin Richardson of Flic Digital:

A load of rubbish - otherwise known as the eco-friendly homes of the future | Expat Living | Global | Telegraph

A load of rubbish - otherwise known as the eco-friendly homes of the future | Expat Living | Global | Telegraph

Great headline - but how long have these been around? Old news...

Still an Earthship in France could (just) be considered news.

Algorithms in Architecture

Algorithms in Architecture

Doing the Smart Geometry tutorials? Enrolled in the computer applications animation / scripting elective? This is for you. If only to learn the extreme visual pattern making end of the spectrum of R&D effort that parametric architecture offers.

omnispace: Architecture - a blog worth watching

omnispace: Architecture:

An odd collection of really interesting stuff. Mostly news items. Plenty of interesting links.

No suggestion as to the source. no apparent archives, No listing of the date when items were uploaded just an ambiguous time...

But, if this had an rss feed, worth watching. One is left wondering where all this interesting stuff is collected?