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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Monday, October 28, 2002

I've become enamoured of the 300 m tall Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea. It's something, but will never be finished.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 04:13 PM PST [Link]

Thursday, October 24, 2002

Drama at the Prada store! No surprise: the famous and rather silly glass elevator at Prada gets stuck. Read it at Vogue.co.uk

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 10:33 PM PST [Link]

Monday, October 21, 2002

Is the end of the era of signature museums at hand? See the NY Times article The Prado Gets Ready to Stretch

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 09:36 AM PST [Link]

Saturday, October 19, 2002

If Los Angeles's urban sprawl is not getting much worse, this is largely the result of the city having reached its geographical limits. In other parts of Southern California, sprawl continues unchecked. The LA Times reports on the Inland Empire as the worst example of Sprawl in the nation. See Swallowed by Urban Sprawl

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 11:27 AM PST [Link]

The LA Times reports on a modern day version of the Owens River Valley story. See Proposed Sale of Water Creates Divisions in Desert

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 10:33 AM PST [Link]

Monday, October 14, 2002

Architecture Urbanism Design Collaborative's web site has been updated. Two projects, Superbrutalism and Cardboard Orthogonal Blob, are now available on-line in their entirety. Enjoy.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 06:58 PM PST [Link]

Tuesday, October 8, 2002

Click here for a gallery showing the remnants of 30 dot.coms, all on the auction block today.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 07:59 AM PST [Link]

Sunday, October 6, 2002

Urinal Dot Net's relentlessness simply must be admired.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 12:10 AM PST [Link]

Saturday, October 5, 2002

The New York Times reports that even with the recession, certain second-tier cities, such as Baltimore, are growing as people "trade down" from more expensive metropolitan areas. See Some Urban Areas Keep Finding New Ways to Grow

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 09:16 AM PST [Link]

Friday, October 4, 2002

Will the MTA extend the Red Line under Wilshire Boulevard after all? Read this article from the LA TImes, reprinted at the Wilshire Center web site.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 08:20 PM PST [Link]

The impact of the West Coast dockworkers' strike on both the US and the world is explored in today's LA Times. See One World, Linked by Containers

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 05:00 PM PST [Link]

Thursday, October 3, 2002

Looking for the perfect Xmas present for me? Try
Crash Bonsai. After visiting, check out Jon Haddock's website. Are we onto something here?

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 04:59 PM PST [Link]