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The images you see above were produced by an architect named Dennis R. Holloway. These images of prehistoric Anasazi villages in New Mexico and Arizona, have been built in virtual reality on Mr. Holloway's Mac IIFX. First, he scaned in the archaeological plans, sections, etc., and traced them precisely in a progran called Presenter Professional (produced by Visual Information Development, Inc. -VIDI, in Los Angeles). Using this program, he then modeled the village in 3-D, and then rendered the model with several light sources (including ambient light) with a "ray-tracing" routine. If he is able to locate a photograph of the ruin village, using the Adobe Photoshop v.3.0.1 program, he is able to "photomage" the ray-traced model into the real photo, by matching viewing angles.

Dennnis Robert Holloway, a native of Michigan, attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) College of Architecture and Design and recieved his Bachelor of architecture (B.Arch.) Degree there in 1966. He later attended Harvard University Graduate School of Design, which awarded him a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) Degree in 1967.

Concurrent with his University teaching and research Mr. Holloway has practiced his profession as a Registered Architect, first in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and later in Boulder, Colorado. He is currently registered in Colorado and New Mexico and he now resides in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. He is a Certified Architect of the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards, which entitles him to reciprocal registration anywhere in the United States. He now devotes his professional time to architectural and planning projects which focus on energy conservation principles, renewable sources of energy, solar-adobe, urban design, historic preservation, and Southwestern U.S. traditional vernacular. Current projects occupying his attention include appropriate technology housing for the Navajo nation, and solar-adobe construction in Colorado, and New Mexico.

From 1987 through 1990 he was Director of the Colorado Solar Hogan Demonstration at the University of Colorado / Boulder, and working with Charles Cambridge, Navaho Anthropologist, demonstrated applications of passive solar, solar electric, and appropriate technologies to the traditional "off-the-grid" Navaho home--the Hogan. The project has been filmed for Discovery Channel's Beyond 2000 and has been broadcasted in sixty countries via satellite. The Navaho Nation is the long term process of preparing a platform to implement his designs as alternatives to the inappropriate rectilinear housing or house trailers. All Navaho Nation projects are done through the firm, Cambridge Holloway Associates, Inc., Charles Cambridge (Navaho), President.

Mr. Holloway was one of the thirty international architects (seven from the U.S.A.) to be invited by the Government of Japan to exhibit passive solar architecture projects in ginza pocket Park at the Passive solar Forum, 1987, Tokyo, organized by the Japan Solar Energy society and architectural Institute of Japan.

Beginning in 1986, Mr. Holloway has been using the Macintosh computer to perform all designs, drawings, graphics, and writing in his practice, and is a beta tester for state-of-the-art 3-D computer programs. In November 1991, in a one-person show called "Virtual Realities", he exhibited his computer architecture simultaneously at Philip Bariess Contemporary Exhibitions in Taos, New Mexico and at the Gallery of San Juan College, Farmington, New Mexico.

In 1993, the Council of the Pueblo Pojoaque, in Northern New Mexico, appointed Mr. Holloway as the Director and Principal Architect of Poeh Architecture & Planning, within the Poeh Cultural Center and Museum, Pueblo of Pojoaque. While maintaining his private practice in Taos, he is effectively the internal architect and planner of all new construction and restoration within the Pueblo, as well as the director of a new architecture guild program for Native Americans. Current projects include the Poeh Cultural Center and Museum Complex, designed in the ancient Anasazi mud idiom, in collaboration with Lt. Gov. George Rivers, and Taos Pueblo's Joel M^cHorse.

Dennis Holloway's writings and architecture have been published widely and internationally. He is co-author, with Maureen M^cIntyre, of The Owner Builder Experience, How to Design and Build Your Own Home, published in 1986 by Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania.