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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Saturday, November 23, 2002

Today's NY Times carries an article on urban ecology. As cities become more and more important players in the global biosphere, their own ecologies become more complex. See Wild Cities: It's a Jungle Out There

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 11:50 AM PST [Link]

Tuesday, November 19, 2002

The NYTimes reports that following the contribution of diesel fuel to the fire at World Trade Center 7, concerns are being raised about the storage of fuel in telecom hotels in the NYC area and beyond.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 06:43 PM PST [Link]

Thursday, November 14, 2002

Architecture Urbanism Design Collaborative [AUDC] will be showing the Cardboard Orthogonal Blob and other projects at the Collectives and Manifestos show at the Pompey AD Gallery, 115 Grand St, between Broadway and Mercer, tonight in New York City.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 12:16 PM PST [Link]

After being asked not to photograph a number of New York city's telco hotels, I visited the Prada store to look for evidence of the elevator rescue. Could this be a newly installed escape hatch?

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Cryptome.org Eyeballs the Telephone Switching Hubs in Downtown Manhattan

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 08:31 AM PST [Link]

Saturday, November 9, 2002

The New Scientists carries an article on the recent round of hacker attacks on the Internet.

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 02:12 PM PST [Link]

Tuesday, November 5, 2002

If you're a fan of the California coast, the California Coastal Records Project should satisfy you.

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

Sunday, November 3, 2002

My friend Renu sent me this link:Evacuated Tube Transport

Posted by Kazys Varnelis @ 09:38 PM PST [Link]