Kazys Varnelis [CV] is the Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. He received a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urban Development from Cornell University in 1994. He has taught at SCI_Arc, the University of Pennsylvania, MIT and is a member of the founding faculty at the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Together with Robert Sumrell, he runs the non-profit architectural collective AUDC with which he has published Blue Monday: Absurd Realities and Natural Histories. He has also worked with the Center for Land Use Interpretation.

He is editor of the Infrastructural City, Networked Publics, and the Philip Johnson Tapes: Interviews by Robert A. M. Stern, all published in 2008.

Kazys's teaching and research explores contemporary architecture, late modernism, architecture and capitalism, and the impact of recent changes in telecommunications and demographics on the contemporary city.