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AGENCY Directs Students in Flash Installation

AGENCY Principals Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller worked with students at TTU-El Paso to realize Flash Installation, a temporary event space occupying an underused transit canopy near the El Paso / Ciudad Juarez border.  Students spent one day prepping and installing the barrels for a one-night-only event.   Read more about the project on the…

AGENCY Moves to the Border

AGENCY has moved to the El Paso / Ciudad Juarez border! Listen to AGENCY Principal Ersela Kripa discuss our current work and research initiatives in this dynamic binational region, on NPR’s State of the Arts. Kripa gives details on our work in this ‘highly porous’ border metroplex, including our new positions as faculty in the…

AGENCY featured as ARCHITECT Magazine’s Emerging Talent

AGENCY partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller are featured in ARCHITECT Magazine’s Emerging Talent.  Mimi Zeiger describes the partners’ project as fellows at the American Academy in Rome: “It would be wrong to think that 2010 Rome Prize winners Ersela Kripa…and Stephen Mueller…have spent their time at the American Academy in Rome holed up on…

AGENCY Wins ONE Prize

AGENCY’s speculative proposal for a new coastal urban infrastructure has been selected as a co-winner of the ONE PRIZE, an international design competition for creating productive green space in cities hosted by Terreform 1. Our proposal, entitled Super Levee Urban Farm, orchestrates a networked ecology of indigenous and agricultural plant and wildlife to protect existing and emerging cities…

Rome Prize 2010-2011

Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller are winners of the Founders Rome Prize in Architecture 2010-2011. Starting this September, they will both spend 11 months at the American Academy in Rome, developing their project entitled Hackable Infrastructures: Inhabiting the Margins of Contemporary Rome.The project extends and tests AGENCY’s previous speculative projects,hackable infrastructures for the contemporary city. We would like…