Kazys Varnelis

Kazys Varnelis holds a PhD in the History of Architecture and Urban Development from Cornell University. He is Director of the Network Architecture Lab and co-founder of AUDC, entities that are both think tanks and practices, conducting research, producing publications, and exhibitions. With AUDC he has published Blue Monday (2007) and exhibited at High Desert Test Sites and other venues. With the Network Architecture Lab, he has edited the Infrastructural City and Networked Publics (both in 2008) and exhibited at the New Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. The Netlab is currently undertaking a major solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Lithuania, to open in July. He has also taught at SCI_Arc, USC, MIT, Columbia, Art Center College of Design, and the University of Pennsylvania and is a founding faculty member of the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He has also edited The Philip Johnson Tapes: Interviews with Robert A. M. Stern (2009) and has also worked with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, for which he produced the pamphlet Points of Interest in the Owens Valley.