Primary Job Title Founder/CEO Primary Organization 
Second Studio
Location Los Angeles, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Nels is fascinated by the relationship between architecture and the virtual environment. This fascination has driven him to develop projects and applications with the intent of understanding specific aspects of this relationship, such as physical objects that contain virtual information, virtual spaces designed to mitigate psychological conditions,
and introducing game logic and play into contemporary design workflows.
Nels has been a member of the discussion surrounding virtual reality and architecture since before the first developer kits began arriving in 2009. Since then he is credited with introducing virtual reality to SCI-Arc where he developed a workflow that focuses heavily on simulation, big data and play. Using these insights Nels has placed in several international design challenges including Tex-Fab "Plasticity" which looked at the use of realtime fabric modeling and composites in architecture.
