Category Archives: News

Skyfill Land Art Generator

View AGENCY’s submission to the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) 2012 Competition below on the AGENCY blog and on the competition website. The organizers of the competition describe the objectives: The Land Art Generator Initiative brings together artists, architects, scientists, landscape architects, engineers, and others in a first of its kind collaboration. The goal of the Land Art…

AGENCY Lecture at Temple University

AGENCY partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller will present a lecture of their recent work at Tyler School of Architecture at Temple University on February 22, 2012.  The lecture begins at 6pm in the Gallery of the Architecture Building, 2001 N 13th Street.  Stay tuned to the AGENCY blog for more details.

[global] Crisis & Design

AGENCY partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller are contributors to a new publication by editor Changhak Choi.  Their essay, entitled Critical Conditioning | Managing Design in the Crisis Imaginary explores new roles for architects in the realm of crisis response. From the publication and event organizers: “[global] Crisis & Design ver.1.0: Living in the Crisis…

eme3 2011 Exhibit Catalog

View AGENCY’s contribution to the eme3 2011 Exhibition Catalog online here.  An excerpt from the text, entitled “Hackable Infrastructures”, is copied below. ‘Metropolitan Rome is a vibrant and dynamic collision of the pressures of globalization, urbanization, and migration. With the influx of populations escaping recent political conflicts, and the continued development of long-existing communities outside…

AGENCY profile on Public Interest Design

AGENCY partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller are featured this week on Public Interest Design.

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 at PKN Roma

AGENCY will present at Pecha Kucha Night Roma, Sunday June 19. The event will feature several short format presentations from artists, architects, and designers, including: Startt (architects) Insula (architects) Ersela Kripa + Stephen Mueller / AGENCY (architects) Freddy Ventriglia (graphic) Marta Gargiulo + Mondo Bizzarro “Street art Diary” edizioni Castelvecchia Allaboutpaula (designers) Orizzontale (architects, designers)…

AGENCY at Frugal Architecture Symposium in Malta

AGENCY has been invited to participate in the Frugal Architecture International Symposium this week in Malta.  The event gathers some of the world’s leading architects and creative thinkers to address the scarcity of resources in contemporary urban and rural environments. Partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller will present a lecture entitled “Economies of Informality” on…

AGENCY Lecture at La Sapienza

Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller will present a lecture entitled “Notes on the Margin” at the Laboratorio di Sintesi in Progettazione Ambientale, La Sapienza today at 3pm.

X Locus | Collaborative Installation at AAR

On Thursday, April 28 at 8 PM in the cortile of the McKim, Mead and White Building at theAmerican Academy in Rome there will be an opening reception for a collaborative installation entitled X LOCUS, featuring environmental media by Founders Rome Prize winners in Architecture Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller (AGENCY), sound by Elliott Carter Rome Prize winner in Musical…