Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller have been selected as this year’s Cameron Visiting Architects at Middlebury College in Vermont. Kripa and Mueller will present a lecture and exhibit of their work, lead students on a two-day workshop, and visit with students throughout the school during their stay in February 2016. Other recent Cameron Visiting Architects…
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AGENCY at Hong-Kong/Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale
AGENCY will exhibit new work in the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen this December, the world’s only biennale dedicated exclusively to the themes of urbanism and urbanization. AGENCY presents STEREOTYPES, an exhibit of three near-future urban scenarios which extrapolate the contemporary collapse of military and domestic space to imagine new potentials…
‘Cloudspace’ Opening in NYC
AGENCY’s ‘Cloudspace’ opened this week at Jill Newhouse Gallery, as part of Wendy Mark‘s show entitled ‘Beginning With Square One’. The custom-fabricated installation was displayed alongside a collection of new work by the artist, including several monotypes of clouds and dots evocative of miniature landscapes, which provided both intellectual and visual ‘source material’ for the wall-sized optical device….
Cloudspace Prototype
AGENCY has completed a prototype panel for their upcoming ‘Cloudspace‘ installation, which goes into final production this week. The final piece will be shown at the October 1st opening of ‘Wendy Mark : Beginning at Square One” at Jill Newhouse Gallery in New York. The custom-fabricated full-scale prototype is CNC-milled from MDF to accept inlaid…
AGENCY Named Finalist in Wynwood Gateway Competition
AGENCY has been selected as a finalist in the Wynwood Gateway Park competition sponsored by Dawntown Miami. AGENCY is one of eleven design studios selected from a pool of over 230 applicants worldwide who have been asked to submit their proposals to design an urban park and garden in Miami to provide a vibrant community…
Urban Operations in Italy
AGENCY Principal Ersela Kripa will direct nineteen students from the NJIT architecture program in the Siena Studio, the New Jersey School of Architecture‘s study abroad program for graduate and undergraduate architecture and design students. This is Kripa’s second year directing the program, which has met with considerable success in past years, with student work being exhibited…
Office US | Venice Biennale 2014
AGENCY has been selected to contribute to the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale as an OFFICE US Outpost Architect. The mission of OFFICE US is to “critically reflect on the production of US architectural firms abroad, while simultaneously projecting a new model for global architectural practice open to all of us.” Commissioned by…
Tactical Urbanisms Exhibit
Work from AGENCY partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller’s ‘Tactical Urbanisms’ seminar is now on display in Givens Hall, Washington University in St. Louis. COURSE DESCRIPTION Over half of the world’s population is now living in cities. Another half of the world is living in poverty. Urban slums and informal developments account for a growing,…
Soak It Up! Design Competition Finalists
AGENCY partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller are part of an interdisciplinary team chosen as finalists in Infill Philadelphia: Soak It Up!, a nationwide design competition to revitalize urban neighborhoods with green stormwater infrastructure. Finalists were selected by an expert jury representing leaders in architecture and urban design, civil engineering, hydrology, landscape architecture, economic and…
Urbanism(s) | Sustainable Cities for One Planet
AGENCY partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller will present at Urbanism(s)-Sustainable Cities for One Planet, a symposium presented by Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, this Friday, November 9th. AGENCY will present a lecture entitled “Inhabiting the Margin – A Social History of Informality”, as part of the Social Cities session, beginning at 3:30 pm….