some articles

a brief history of horizontality [2003]

on FOA's Yokohama Terminal and the future of architectural visibility in the city

towers of concentration lines of growth [2002]

on telecommunications and urban form in the contemporary city

cathedrals of the culture industry [2002]

on the OMA project for LACMA and the idea of the museum city

hallucination in seattle [2001]

on Frank Gehry's Experience Music Project in Seattle and Late Capitalism

architecture after couture [2001]

on architecture and fashion

who's afraid of postmodernism? [1999]

on late capitalism and architecture

the caress of the commodity [1997]

on automony and capitalism in architecture

some student projects

immersive mapping, gps, and the tunnel effect

analysis of starbucks

thesis on muzak

varnelis.net archives

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varnelis.net [site map] is a research forum for architecture, network culture, and postmetropolitan urbanism.

Kazys Varnelis teaches history and theory of architecture and urbanism at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He is also a member the board of directors of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and a founding principal of Architecture Urbanism Design Collaborative [AUDC] and frequently works with the Center for Land Use Interpretation.

His teaching and research focuses on late modernism, architecture and capitalism, and the impact of recent changes in telecommunications and demographics on the contemporary city in general and on Los Angeles in particular.

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Current news:

My article Corporate Camouflage. Space International's Noevir USA Showroom has just been published in LA Architect Magazine. The next issue of Praxis will carry my piece "Los Angeles. Practice in a Late Capitalist City." My essay on One Wilshire recently appeared in issue five of the Berlin journal An Architektur. Produktion und Gebrauch gebauter Umwelt. In the next few days, watch for a new website I designed for the LA Forum.

If the post you are looking for isn't here, check out the archives, organized by month, or use the search function in the middle of the page.

Tuesday, April 30, 2002

MVRDV finally gets a chance to take on urbanism. The May World Architecture investigates

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 06:53 PM PST [Link]

Friday, April 26, 2002

A new, much smaller version of the Starbucks Network City book by Jared Ward, Paul Wysocan, and Jonathan Garnett is now available. Click here for the 4.1 mb download.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 06:14 PM PST [Link]

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

In case you're in Barcelona tomorrow (Wednesday, the 17th) night, check out my lecture "The Third Sublime: American Space, Technology, The Desert" at 17:30 in auditorium Sant Josep, Escola TËcnica i Superior d'Arquitectura La Salle, Quatre Camins, 2 08022 Barcelona. Quartzsite will be featured.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 11:36 AM PST [Link]

Tuesday, April 2, 2002

The LA Times reports that the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is considering five candidates for a major renovation of their complex: David Chipperfield, Norman Foster, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, and Machado (not Machada as the paper reports) and Silvetti. Final selection is due this summer. See Calendar Live - Museum Considers 5 Design Firms

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 08:12 AM PST [Link]

Monday, April 1, 2002

Good transmodernism can be found in Los Angeles: see Escher GuneWardena Architecture's web site.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 11:16 PM PST [Link]