the infrastructural city: networked ecologies in los angeles
Planners used to deploy new infrastructure to fix existing urban ills and to support new cities on the frontier where man met nature, but today infrastructure forms a new frontier: it is itself wild, untamable and often impossible to understand. Our project takes Los Angeles as a case study to examine how out of control, hybrid, and perverted infrastructures affect the contemporary metropolis as it explores the more hacker-like means of operating in this condition.
Part-atlas, part-manual, this edited collection of fifteen essays explores takes an unauthorized tour through the murky world of Los Angeles, brought to life through vivid essays, photographs, maps, and diagrams. This timely and lavishly illustrated book illuminates the new ways in which infrastructure affects life in L. A. and cities worldwide.
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]