AGENCY has launched our Border Dispatches, a series of investigative reports on the US/Mexico borderland. The first installment is featured this month in The Architect’s Newspaper. Each month, we will identify and explore a “sleeper agent,” a critical site or actor reshaping the diffuse, overlapping binational territory we know as the borderlands. Throughout the series we will provide you an ‘on-the-ground’ perspective from the frontiers…
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Call for Applicants | Border Insecurities Summer Workshop
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION We are pleased to announce the inaugural Border Insecurities Summer Workshop, sponsored by the TTU College of Architecture. We seek students from a diverse range of disciplines, including architecture, art, geography, political science and economics to study, question, and design for emerging conceptions of public space in the borderlands. Workshop participants will engage…
Binational Crowd Control
In honor of Pope Francis’ visit to Ciudad Juarez (MX), AGENCY has taken a closer look at the way the binational region is manipulating traffic to accommodate the masses of expected visitors on both sides of the international divide. The impact of the papal visit provides insight into the temporary repurcussions of globalized power structures…