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.

Sunday, September 22, 2002

Anybody up for a trip to Irvine for an auction of Arthur Anderson's furniture and equipment? Funny, only two years ago, the head of a supposedly-cutting-edge-but-actually-not-very-cutting-edge program told me that Arthur Anderson was his model. Well, yes, I understand now.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 07:29 PM PST [Link]

Thursday, September 19, 2002

The Center for Land Use Interpretation now has a web site documenting the One Wilshire exhibition. See CLUI - Programs & Projects

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 05:30 PM PST [Link]

Monday, September 16, 2002

A lecture that I delivered at the Center for Land Use Interpretation is now on-line in text form. Titled Towers of Concentration. Lines of Growth this talk is a preliminary probe into the role of telecommunications and the city. Comments are greatly appreciated.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 03:56 PM PST [Link]

Friday, September 13, 2002

Today's LA Times has an obituary for Rose. See Rose Marie Mendez, 32; Rising Talent in Architecture

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 12:17 PM PST [Link]

Wednesday, September 11, 2002

I am saddened to write that Rose Mendez passed away last Saturday. Rose graduated Cornell University with an M.Arch, taught at the University of Buffalo, at SCI-Arc, and at UCLA. Among her many accomplishments, Rose's firm FM design won a competition for the redesign of San Francisco's Union Square and she was project manager for the LA Now book.

There will be a gathering for those who knew her and want to share our memories at the SPF gallery, 6pm this Saturday. SPF gallery is at 3384 Robertson Place, Culver City, in the triangle of land next to the 10 off-ramp. Given the limited parking, its probably best to park at OfficeMax on Venice and walk to SPF. Better directions can be found at the spfa web site.

In lieu of flowers, a scholarship at Cornell in Rose's name is being established:

Rose Mendez Undergraduate Memorial Scholarship
Cornell University
College of Architecture, Art and Planning
129 Sibley Dome
Ithaca, NY 14853

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 08:48 AM PST [Link]

Monday, September 9, 2002

Los Angeles spreads to the Central Valley. Read the LA Times Story Tejon Ranch Projects Would Create L.A.-Bakersfield Link

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 09:22 AM PST [Link]