Kazys Varnelis
History
Kazys Varnelis (born 1967) is a 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 [1].
Work
Varnelis has written extensively on the Internet, locative media and network culture. Since 2000 has maintained a blog at his web site, [2]. 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 [3].
