“Internet Studios: Teaching Architectural Design Online in the United States and Latin America” by Andia

This project is one of the most extreme combinations of computer graphic technology and Internet communication in contemporary architectural education. The findings can be applied to any discipline that consists of a large number of participants within a design setting. Over the past two years, the experiments have allowed more than 130 students and 20 professors from seven schools of architecture, in Miami, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Santiago de Chile, Valparaiso, Mar del Plata, and Santa Fe de Argentina, to work concurrently in a semester-long design studio. Most of the collaboration has been accomplished by using low-bandwidth Internet communication such as Web publishing, Chat, Web3D, RealPlayer, IP videoconferencing, CAD software, and other technologies such as ISDN broadcasting. New grants from Global Crossing, Cisco Systems, and Lucent Technologies support future experimentation with high-bandwidth technologies on the Internet2 Abilene Network.

I would like to thank the professors, researchers, students, and the large number of international reviewers who participated in the experience.