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In this article Jerry Laiserin talks about the e-teliers, these are the new trend of teaching virtual. The e-teliers, are represented by Virtual Design Studios (VDS), these studios are places online where the people can work through CAD (Computer Aided Design) and new technology to communication. These places gather all the features of the ateliers physicals, and allow what students and teachers no longer needs are in the same place at the same time. According to the author, Virtual design studios (VDS) promote “collaboration over competition, diversify student experiences”. From 1995 to 1997, with one publication of experiences in overlapping studios of several universities in the world, occurred evolution in the academy, through VDS. Then in 1997, Mary Lou Maher, Simeon Simoff, and Anna Cicognani wrote a landmark paper and subsequent monograph, Understanding Virtual Design Studios (Springer-Verlag, 1999), on VDS experiences at the Key Centre for Design Computing, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney; concluding that “the location of designers irrelevant … because the workspace of the studio is distributed across the net. Designers are able to enter the studio for interactive and noninteractive sessions connecting to the World Wide Web, multimedia mailers, and/or connecting to a video conferencing session.” The design collaboration may be single-task, in which each participant may work at asynchronous or synchronous (designing at different times or simultaneously). “Students see that though their distant peers may have different values and approaches to design, many fundamental aspects of the design process are unchanged around the world”, despite the distance “we get to glimpse a wider world.” “The virtual design studio also is important as we train our students for a global marketplace.” Dr. Vásquez de Velasco’s innovation in VDS is the Infinity Room which creates the illusion that studios hundreds or thousands of miles apart are just opposite halves of the same room. The ETH in Zurich, defines its use of VDS technology as a platform for creating a new hybrid of virtual and physical architecture for 2010, as the hand-rendered communication media of the original ateliers shaped the architecture, the virtual media of the e-telier will shape a new architecture of the digital age. **__Opinion about__** **: __From atelier to e-telier: virtual design studios__ (by Jerry Laiserin)** I agree with the opinion of author, because I think what Virtual Design Studios are a excellent tool for learning at a distance, allowing students and teachers are connected from anyplace in the world, VDS allow work asynchronous or synchronous, depending the needs of the participants. It is a window into knowledge about new practices design and urban planning. Also promote the use of new technologies and teamwork. Is really incredible all things that we can do in the virtual world. But I think what everyday teachers need to remind students the most importance about face to face communication.
 * __SUMMARY about__****: __From atelier to e-telier: virtual design studios__ (by Jerry Laiserin)**