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=Summary of the text: From atelier to e-telier: virtual design studios =

The design studio, as physical place and pedagogical method, is the core of architectural education. The Carnegie Endowment report on architectural education identified a comparably central role for studios in schools today. Advances in CAD and visualization, combined with technologies to communicate images, data, and “live” action, now enable virtual dimensions of studio experience. Students no longer need gather at the same time and place to tackle the same design problem

Virtual design studios (VDS) have the potential to favor collaboration over competition, diversify student experiences, and redistribute the intellectual resources of architectural education across geographic and socioeconomic divisions. Communication may be synchronous, implying “the simultaneous presence and participation of all designers involved in the collaboration,” or asynchronous, in which “designers may work at different times, often on different parts of the design, and do not require the simultaneous presence of all team members.”

The virtual design studio also is important as we train our students for a global marketplace. Students can use VDS-specific tools, including “electronic pin-up” programs that allow the same Photoshop image files to be plotted out for real pin-ups and published simultaneously in HTML format for virtual pin-ups on the Web, without duplicate effort.

The role of the studio thus will come full circle: As the hand-rendered communication media of the original ateliers shaped the architecture of the Beaux Arts age, the virtual media of the e-telier will shape a new architecture of the digital age.

= OPINION = In my opinion the invention of Virtual design studio is a big pass for the architecture and urban planner. This is a very important and interesting tool. This is characterized byan essential aspectas the locationof the designersirrelevant because the workspace of the studio is distributed acrossthe network.Designers areable toenter the studiofor interactive and noninteractive sessions connecting.