> INFORMAL URBANISMS:THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLDLa Esquina Gallery, 1000 West 25th Street, Kansas City, MO.January 6th 2010, 6:30pmDonations Welcome AGENCY will host and moderate a panel discussion concerning emerging conditions in disadvantaged and marginalized urban populations around the world. AGENCY will present its recent architectural and infrastructural proposals, and screen Garbage…
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Environmental Media Part I
> AGENCY will provide environmental media for the “Party of the Century”, hosted by Jeff Larison this New Year’s Eve in Kansas City, MO. Stay tuned for updates and screenshots from our animations and films.NEXT ARTICLE IN SERIES >
Commuter City
>AGENCY will be contributing an ongoing feature on architecture and urbanism to the new online news source, KC Free Press. Look for our analysis in the weeks ahead. PROJECT DESCRIPTIONOver the last 75 years, Kansas City has transformed from a dense, walkable, urban fabric to one that focuses on the ease of commute and commerce…
Elements of a Tactical Urbanism
AGENCY has completed research and project proposals for their upcoming book, entitled Elements of a Tactical Urbanism. Throughout the modernizing world there are marginalized populations, displaced by the rapidly expanding, productive circles of industrialized, and globalized society. Refugee camps, nomadic populations, social housing blocks, shanty towns, and entire cities in developing nations, invent ways to…
Informal Urbanisms
>AGENCY has been awarded a residency fellowship at The MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. They will be working on compiling an analytical research text entitled Informal Urbanisms. Stay tuned to AGENCY’s blog for updates and case studies. Project Description:Throughout the modernizing world there are marginalized populations, displaced by the rapidly expanding, productive circles of…
Nation Building Aesthetics
AGENCY has published Nation Building Aesthetics, available for purchase on Lulu. Nation Building Aesthetics is a research and analytical text exploring the recent urban and architectural history of Tirana, an emerging world capital in the rapidly developing nation of Albania. Drawing on first-hand experience of the urban environment and personal interviews with its residents and…
AGENCY at Storefront
>AGENCY’s entry to White House Redux Competition will be displayed at Storefront for Art and Architecture. The entry, entitled Terminal Paroxysm, proposes a real-time interactive monument for the new presidency.
Unsolicited Architecture
AGENCY has published their nation building strategies for the underadvantaged nation of Albania in Volume 14: Unsolicited Architecture. (Volume is a joint project of Archis, AMO, and C-LAB)
Inhabited Displacement
AGENCY’s urban design and interactive media proposal for downtown St. Louis has won honorable mention in the St. Louis Follies Competition sponsored by AIA-St. Louis. The design proposes a progressively inhabited infrastructural framework responsive to the dynamic flows of populations and information both locally and abroad.