The Role of Architects in the Metaverse

ASAI AIP 37 CONFERENCE 2022

By ASAI (American Society of Architectural Illustrators)

Shajay Bhooshan, Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects & co-founder of Zaha Hadid Architects Computation & Design Research Group (ZHACODE), will be speaking on the role of architects in the metaverse at the Architecture in Perspective (AIP) International Conference 37 in London.

Organised by the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI) and supported by New London Architecture (NLA), the AIP conference on the theme ‘Cause & Effect’ runs from the 16th November at 18:00 until 17th November at 20:00 (GMT).

Shajay will outline how architects can utilise the mechanisms and technologies of the metaverse to impact the metropolis. He will highlight the critical need to enhance public engagement on topics of urban density, sustainable cities and civic pride and how broader accessibility to the advances in design and construction can achieve sustainable development goals.

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Organiser of ASAI AIP 37 CONFERENCE 2022

ASAI

The American Society of Architectural Illustrators (ASAI) was founded in 1986 as a professional organization to represent the business and artistic interests of architectural illustrators throughout North America and around the world.

The founders of ASAI, Steve Rich, Frank Costantino and Steve Oles created ASAI with the principal mandate that remains the fostering of communication among its members, raising the standards of architectural drawing, and acquainting the broader public with the importance of such drawings as a conceptual and representational tool in architecture. Membership in the organization is not limited to professional illustrators, but is open to architects, designers, teachers, students, corporations, and anyone engaged in the serious pursuit of architectural drawing.

The principal means of achieving the organization’s goals is Architecture in Perspective, an annual international competition and conference, exhibition and catalogue which has included work by many of the most accomplished contemporary architectural illustrators from around the world. Each year approximately sixty pieces are chosen for exhibition by a jury of respected professionals in the fields of architecture, illustration, photography, fine art, or design education. The artwork deemed to be the year’s most outstanding work is accorded the organization’s highest award, The Hugh Ferriss Memorial Prize. By providing not only award recognition, but also a forum for the practitioners of this art form, the American Society of Architectural Illustrators has focused attention on an increasingly diverse, yet refined level of work. With a large international membership, the work of the Society’s members has become the touchstone for many of the most eloquent voices and hands in the field.

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