The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles asin: 8496954250 binding: Paperback list price: $39.95 USD amazon price: $39.95

Once the greatest American example of a modern city served by infrastructure, Los Angeles is now in perpetual crisis. Infrastructure has ceased to support architecture's plans for the city and instead subordinates architecture to its own purposes. This out-of-control but networked world is increasingly organized by flows of objects and information. Static structures avoid being superfluous by joining this system as temporary containers for the people, objects, and capital.

The Philip Johnson Tapes: Interviews by Robert A. M. Stern author: Robert A.M. Stern asin: 1580932142 binding: Hardcover list price: $40.00 USD amazon price: $26.40 USD

Debate and banter between the irascible Philip Johnson and the equally articulate and opinionated Robert A. M. Stern generates a provocative combination of astute commentary and personal observation on the state of architecture in the twentieth century.

Networked Publics asin: 0262220857 binding: Hardcover list price: $35.00 USD amazon price: $25.20 USD

Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts created by these technologies have transformed our relationships to (and definitions of) place, culture, politics, and infrastructure.

Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis explores alienation and connection as they develop in place, non-place, and networked place in "Simultaneous Environments—Social Connection and New Media," an online magazine article in issue 21 of Vodafone Receiver, "Space is the Place!" 

The Network Architecture Lab presents Collapse!, part of the Studio-X Rapid Response series. 

Collapse! explores the spatial consequences of the "new" economy—the panic of 2008 as well as the last two decades, and the last two years—at a variety of scales: the NYSE trading room to Manhattan, the city to the suburbs, the United States to the world.

Networked Publics, edited by Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis has been published by MIT Press and is now widely available in bookstores and online. It may be purchased at Amazon here.

Netlab director Kazys Varnelis and Netlab researcher Leah Meisterlin analyze the role of maps in contemporary society in The Invisible City: Design in the Age of Intelligent Maps. See this important article at Adobe Design Center's Think Tank.

Netlab Director Kazys Varnelis published "The Architecture of Hertzian Space" in issue 2008:5 of A+U.

The Netlab has finally moved into its new home!

We are now at the

Columbia GSAPP
Studio-X
180 Varick Street
Suite 1610
New York, NY 10014

"The Rise of Network Culture," a draft of NetLab director Kazys Varnelis's conclusion to Networked Publics, a book (forthcoming in 2007) that he edited as a fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication in 2005-2006 is available now.

In this essay, Varnelis explores the network as a new cultural dominant analogous to modernism or postmodernism.