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

projects

immersive mapping, gps, and the tunnel effect

analysis of starbucks

thesis on muzak

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.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2002

Is it the end of Wallpaper magazine? See Wallpaper editor bids readers 'adieu'

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 09:31 AM PST [Link]

One out of fourteen households in the United States has a net worth in the seven digits. See hnw: Sizing Up The Wealth Market

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 07:10 AM PST [Link]

Monday, May 20, 2002

The LA Downtown News carries an article on the newly opened downtown Standard hotel entitled Hip Replacement

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 12:19 PM PST [Link]

The main page of kazys.net has been moderately redesigned and some bugs and typos in other pages have been cleaned up as well. As always, let me know if there are any problems. My email address is in the middle section.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 01:05 AM PST [Link]

Friday, May 17, 2002

Don't miss the John Haddock lecture at C Level Saturday a 6.30. John Haddock is simply one of the best artists around today.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 11:54 PM PST [Link]

According to the New York Times, the Prada NY store is paying off, averaging $54,000 a day of sales since it opened in December and $75,000 a day in the last two months. See Betting on the Luxury Goods Market At the latter rate, it will only take 540 days to pay off the store, minus, of course, salaries, rent, expenses, and the cost of the clothes themselves. [thanks to Paul Wysocan for this one]

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 11:23 AM PST [Link]

A year old story, but this one questions whether there really is a bandwidth glut in cities. CNET.COM's Sam Ames 'Cities: Bring Us Your Bandwidth'

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 07:33 AM PST [Link]

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Preservation Magazine features a story on perhaps the newest aspect of the postmetropolitan terrain: the Micropolis. You'll have to read past the typical Preservation ideology, but The Price of Popularity is worth a look.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 06:34 PM PST [Link]

The BBC News reports on how the Segway scooter is doing, now that it is in use in Atlanta.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 01:07 PM PST [Link]

Friday, May 10, 2002

The LA Times reports that the Los Angeles City Council approved a $2.4-Billion Downtown L.A. Renewal Plan.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 10:59 AM PST [Link]