Kazys Varnelis (historian)
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Kazys Varnelis (born 1967) is an American historian and theorist of architecture, specialising in network culture. He is Director of the Network Architecture Lab at
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a founding member of conceptual architecture practice AUDC.[1]
Family and education
Varnelis grew up in Chicago and Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He is the son of artist
Simon's Rock College and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1994.[2]
He has two children.
Work
Varnelis is a historian of architecture, writing on
Annenberg Center for Communication where he worked with Mizuko Ito
on "Networked Publics," a year-long research project. More recently he has been involved in research on infrastructure and urbanism, which he began as director of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
Together with
Cabinet, Perspecta, Textfield, Verb and 306090. Varnelis has also worked with the Center for Land Use Interpretation.[2]
Bibliography
Edited books
- The Philip Johnson Tapes: Conversation with Robert A. M. Stern
- The Infrastructural City
- Networked Publics
With AUDC
- Blue Monday: Stories of Absurd Realities and Natural Histories
References
- ^ AUDC
- ^ a b about Kazys Varnelis, retrieved 2009-06-25
