#4 EDUCATION

New paradigms in the university: research at the NETLAB and STUDIO-X

Why the talk is inspiring?

This talk investigates research into the expanded role of the architect undertaken at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture’s Global Studio-X program and the Network Architecture Lab in particular.

19
May
2011

Speaker

Kazys Varnelis [US/LT]

How the speaker is exceptional?

Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University GSAPP. Kazys’s teaching and research focuses on contemporary architecture, late modernism, architecture and capitalism, and the impact of recent changes in telecommunications and demographics on the contemporary city.

RECOMMENDS TO READ

The Infrastructural City

Kazys Varnelis

Why the book is worth reading?

Part-atlas, part-manual, The Infrastructural City takes an unauthorized tour through the city, brought to life through vivid essays, photographs, maps, and diagrams. This book gives an idea of how architects can undertake research at all scales.