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
Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and a founding member of conceptual architecture practice AUDC.
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Family and education
Varnelis grew up in Chicago and Berkshire County, Massachusetts. He is the son of artist Kazys Varnelis. He attended Simon's Rock College
Bard College at Simon's Rock (more commonly known as Simon's Rock) is a private residential liberal arts college in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It is a unit of Bard College, which is located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
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and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1994.
Work
Varnelis is a historian of architecture, writing on Philip Johnson, Andrea Branzi, late modern and contemporary architecture. He has published in magazines such as Log, Volume, A+U, and Praxis. He has also written extensively on the Internet, locative media and network culture. Since 2000 has maintained a blog at his web site
varnelis.net
In addition to Columbia, he has taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is a private architecture school in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1972, SCI-Arc was initially regarded as both institutionally and artistically avant-garde and more adventurous than t ...
, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Limerick, Ireland. In 2004, he was appointed as senior researcher at the 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
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Together with Robert Sumrell, he founded AUDC as a conceptual architecture practice in 2001. They have exhibited at Andrea Zittel
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's High Desert Test Sites and Art Center College of Design. They have published their work in numerous magazines such as '' Cabinet'', ''Perspecta
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'', Textfield, Verb and ''306090
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''. Varnelis has also worked with the Center for Land Use Interpretation.[
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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
External links
Personal and Academic WebsiteNetwork Architecture LabAUDCInterview with Kazys Varnelis at Archinect
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Living people
Columbia University faculty
1967 births
American people of Lithuanian descent
20th-century American architects
21st-century American architects
Bard College at Simon's Rock faculty