los angeles, infrastructural city
In collaboration with Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, this edited collection of fifteen essays by architects, artists, and scholars maps the nodes and lines of infrastructure shaping contemporary life in Los Angeles as well as other cities. Forthcoming 2007 from ACTAR. [more]
logistics studio 2007
In this studio the Network Architecture Lab investigated logistics and supply-chain management. During the first half of studio, students traced the manufacture and distribution of one object. For the second half, they explored a logistics network to uncover that network's implications for architecture.
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networked publics
The product of a year of research by 16 scholars at the Annenberg Center for Communication, edited by Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis, Networked Publics (MIT, 2008) explores society and life in a highly linked world. Read a draft here and Varnelis's conclusion, "The Rise of Network Culture" here. [more]