People · Podcast guest
James Lee Burgess
Founder · UrbanXR
ARB-registered architect and Founding Director of UrbanXR.
- Current role
- Founder
- Practice
- UrbanXR
- Location
- Norfolk, England
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2022
The story so far
The path behind James's work.
James Lee Burgess is an ARB-registered architect and the Founding Director of UrbanXR, an augmented reality and mixed reality studio focused on the built environment. He studied architecture at Cardiff University, completed his year out and spent around ten years working in London on social housing and mixed-use projects before relocating to Norfolk.
He founded his own practice in 2019, initially as a traditional architecture studio, and invested early in mixed reality through Microsoft HoloLens 2 on construction sites before moving fully into augmented and mixed reality development. His work spans planning and public consultation, heritage storytelling and the on-site visualisation of proposed schemes, combining an architect's understanding of how people use space with tools such as the Unity game engine and the Immersal visual positioning system. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Episode 0159 · Architecture Social · 43:50
What has Augmented and Mixed Reality got to do with Architecture?
Augmented and mixed reality can sound like hype, but they raise useful questions for architecture: how people see information, test space, share models and interact with design.
Inside the conversation
6 moments to start with- 01
00:00 · Introduction to augmented and mixed reality in architecture
- 02
05:00 · AR, Pokemon Go and public adoption
- 03
10:00 · Cameras, glasses and the social contract around AR
- 04
15:00 · James Lee Burgess on architecture and immersive platforms
- 05
20:00 · Demonstrations, public apps and interactive content
- 06
25:00 · Unity, game engines and upskilling from architecture
Profile in brief
The work and context behind James's conversation.
- Current role
- Founder
- Practice
- UrbanXR
- Location
- Norfolk, England
Continue exploring
Meet the practice behind the work.
UrbanXR is a Norfolk-based augmented and mixed reality studio creating world-scale AR experiences for architecture, urban design and the built environment.
- Norfolk
- Cultural
- Masterplanning
- Urban Design
Podcast · moments that play
Start where the idea starts.
- 05:00James Lee Burgess · Audio onlyListen from 05:00 in the full episode.
AR, Pokemon Go and public adoption
- 10:00James Lee Burgess · Audio onlyListen from 10:00 in the full episode.
Cameras, glasses and the social contract around AR
- 15:00James Lee Burgess · Audio onlyListen from 15:00 in the full episode.
James Lee Burgess on architecture and immersive platforms
- 20:00James Lee Burgess · Audio onlyListen from 20:00 in the full episode.
Demonstrations, public apps and interactive content
- 25:00James Lee Burgess · Audio onlyListen from 25:00 in the full episode.
Unity, game engines and upskilling from architecture
- 30:00James Lee Burgess · Audio onlyListen from 30:00 in the full episode.
Revit models, performance limits and HoloLens workflows