Complementary Virtual Architecture and the Design Studio

Abstract Complementary virtual architecture combines physical architecture with virtual buildings to address a single program. This bimodal approach serves clients whose activities span both worlds, and it brings conventional architectural concerns of client/corporate identity, artistic expression, and articulation into the virtual domain, and in turn requires coordination with design for the physical world. To prepare students for a future that will likely present many such opportunities, the authors formed and taught for three years a studio centered on projects of this type.