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…
Tag Archive: Developing World
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…
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…