AGENCY at Pecha Kucha Night 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)
Aira (motion graphic)
Boudewijn Kaijser + Riccardo Gola (architect + jazz musician)

Entry is free. Presentations begin at 20:20, and will be held at Circolo Degli Artisti, Via Casilina Vecchia 42, Roma.  The event is curated by Ottavio Cialone and Francesco Lipari.

For more information from the event organizers, please visit their page on Facebook.  To see other PKN presentations, and for details about the Pecha Kucha format and events in your city, go to pecha-kucha.org.

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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 Thursday, June 2, and will participate in other events throughout the week, including an international design workshop.

Other participants in the symposium include:

Elena Barthel | Rural Studio, USA
Austin Camilleri | Artist, Malta
Franco La Cecla | Anthropologist and Architect, Italy
Nina Maritz | Nina Maritz Architects, Namibia
Luca Stasi | CTRL+Z Architects, Mexico, and
Sarah Wigglesworth | Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, UK
among others.

The event is organized by Architecture Project (Malta) and Abbate e Vigevano Architects (Italy).  A detailed description of the event is available from the Times of Malta, and an event programme is available for download from KTP.

Stay tuned to the AGENCY blog for updates.

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X LOCUS | Collaborative Installation at AAR

On Thursday, April 28 at 8 PM in the cortile of the McKim, Mead and White Building at the American 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 Composition Paul Rudy, and lyrics by Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Rome Prize winner in Modern Italian Studies Jennifer Scappettone.

X LOCUS explores senses of dislocation and repatriation in the communities of the Academy, Rome, and the respective backgrounds of those who pass through here via traversals of sound, text, and visual projections onto the introverted cortile space. The installation raises issues of placelessness and loss which cannot be represented as visual images; the organizers write, "Through a subversive use of the two-dimensional image in these shared spaces, we mean to generate experiences of reorientation."

X LOCUS will be on display Thursday, April 28 and Friday, April 29 from 8 to 10 PM, with an opening on Thursday.

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AGENCY at 'MADE UP | Design's Fictions'

AGENCY has been selected to participate in MADE UP | Design's Fictions, an upcoming exhibit, opening this month at Art Center College of Design. The exhibition is part of a two-month long exhibition and speaker series dedicated to exploring emergent themes in architectural practice.


A description of the exhibition from the event organizers:
To design anything, it is necessary to first imagine an audience, a site, a purpose, or even a world. It has to be made up. MADE UP: Design’s Fictions presents the work of major and emerging international practices that forecast, hypothesize, muse, skylark, role-play, put-on-airs, freak-out or otherwise fake-it to produce work that is relevant to our increasingly confusing and accelerated world.

As part of this groundbreaking exhibition, AGENCY will display their speculative design research project entitled Super Levee Urban Farm.  To safeguard against future disaster from rising sea levels, the world’s cities must invest heavily in new forms of infrastructural development. Super Levee Urban Farm capitalizes on the need for urban improvement, expanding the necessary infrastructural and environmental interventions to propose a more productive urban and personal life. The project proposes a global system of levees, serving as a new brand of urban farms at the city’s edge, preserving local ecologies while protecting cities from emerging dangers.




EXHIBITION DETAILS
January 20 - March 20, 2011
Saturdays and Sundays 12 – 5 pm or by appointment
Wind Tunnel Gallery, South Campus, Art Center College of Design
950 South Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105

Featuring work by:
AGENCY
Aeolab
Juan Azulay
Stuart Bailey / Frances Stark
Juliette Bellocq
Commonwealth
Design I/O
Hernan Diaz Alonso
Andrew Friend
Justin Gier
Garnet Hertz
Thomas Hillier
Ben Hooker / Shona Kitchen
Ingrid Hora / Daniel Salomon
Coy Howard
Ed Keller / Yuval Borochov /
Lisa Ekle / Danil Nagy
Perry Kulper
The Planning Center
Keiichi Matsuda
Maywa Denki
Syd Mead
Metahaven
Microsoft
MOS
Oblong Industries
Sascha Pohflepp
Rojkind Arquitectos
Eddo Stern
Noam Toran
Julia Tsao
Jackson Wang
Chris Woebkin /
Natalie Jeremijinko

Additional contributions by:
Julian Bleecker
Ben Bratton
Norman Klein
Peter Lunenfeld
Geoff Manaugh
Fiona Raby

Installation by:
Tim Durfee and Like Now

Engineering: Buro Happold; Graphic Design: Brian Roettinger;

Programming: Ewan Branda; Project team: Haila Adamo, Laura
Goard, Fallon James, Mike Manalo, Matthew Manos, Salvador
Orara, Nicholas Paradowski, Bora Shin, Jayne Vidheecharoen

Curated by: Tim Durfee with Haelim Paek

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AGENCY Profile in Abitare

AGENCY is featured as the selected firm profile in the latest issue of Abitare.  Read an interview with partners Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, and learn more about the firm's philosophy, recent accomplishments, and upcoming projects in Issue 11 of Abitare Bulgaria, available at newstands now.

Special Correspondent Petya Ruseva muses on the firm name in her introduction:
"AGENCY – sounds active, important and… anonymous. Ersela Kripa  and Stephen Mueller’s Bureau for research and design activities is well named: it has to work effectively, everywhere, to create networks."

Read the full introduction online, or pick up a copy of the print version to read the full article!

Photo Copyright AGENCY Architecture LLC 2010

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AGENCY Lecture | Cornell in Rome

AGENCY will present a lecture concerning recent work and research objectives, as part of the Cornell in Rome Fall 2010 Lecture Series, sponsored by the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art & Planning.

The lecture will be held November 15, 2010, at Palazzo Lazzaroni, Via del Barbieri 6, in the center of Rome.

This year's lecture series features a dynamic group of contemporary architects and artists, including Odile Decq, Fritz Haeg, and 2A+P/A.


See details for the event on Cornell's website here.

 Photo Copyright © All Rights Reserved by Flickr User Cornell AAP

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30S | Online Streaming

View the submissions for 30S, a crowdsourced video installation project by AGENCY at the Venice Biennale, on the continuous, looping playlist above. Thank you to all who submitted videos for inclusion so far.  The playlist continues to grow as new submissions are received, so check back often to find more videos.

The exhibit is presented by SUPERFRONT in collaboration with At Work With, and opens Tuesday, October 19, at the  Nordic Pavilion, 5:00PM Venice time (CEST/UTC+2).  Videos will be on display until Monday, November 22.

If you want to contribute with a video of your workspace, there is still time!  Check out our Submission Guidelines to find out how you can be a part of the show as part of our rolling submissions.  Contributor names and locations are listed on the YouTube video files, and will be credited officially on the AGENCY blog.

Contributors to date:
Spacelab Architects | Fermo
Joseph Baker | New York
Tor Lindstrand | Bucharest
Andy Bernheimer | Brooklyn
Johnny Naugahyde | Kansas City
Clarisa Diaz | Phnom Penh
Mimi Zeiger | Brooklyn
Fake Industries Architectural Agonism | New York
Keith Van de Riet | New York
Jana Vander Goot | Rome
Andrew Mikhael | Englewood
Fritz Haeg | Rome
Tyler Selby | Kansas City
Nina Ilieva | New York
Jeremy Mende | Rome
John Matteo | Rome
Marcella Del Signore | Rome
Cecil Castellucci | Los Angeles
Saman Hosseinipour | New York
Sarah Le Clerc | New York
Tyler Marshall | New York
David Garcia | Copenhagen
Tim Durfee | Los Angeles
Pavlina Gantcheva | New York
Franky Antimisiaris | Athens
Markus Bader | Bucharest
Heather Braun | New York
Raymond Williams IV | New York
Adam Gumowski | Los Angeles
Mitch McEwen | Brooklyn

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30S | AGENCY at Venice Biennale for SUPERFRONT

AGENCY has been selected to exhibit at the Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia), acting as ambassadors for SUPERFRONT in collaboration with At Work With at the Nordic Pavilion to realize "30S", a crowdsourced video installation addressing the role of the architect in the design of public space. 

Project Description
The project expands the theme of the 12th International Architectural Exhibition at the Venice Biennale to highlight the role of the festival itself in fabricating and amplifying the identity of the contemporary architect.

While “people meet in architecture”, the architect often operates in environments uncannily devoid of interpersonal contact. Paradoxically, it is from these most private spaces that our cities’ civic buildings and public spaces are designed.

The installation will linger in the private space of the architect, projecting a continuous stream of user-generated content from an installation-specific web-based video channel, acting as a clearinghouse for 30-second clips of static-shot digital video. Video will highlight the quotidian, intimate, and banal aspects of architectural endeavor, forcibly colluding these highly personal spaces with the public realm by means of digital projection into the exhibit space of the Pavilion.


AGENCY will host user-generated content in a continuous, looping stream on the AGENCY blog. 

Read the Submission Guidelines for details on how to submit your film.

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30S | Submission Guidelines

AGENCY has been selected to exhibit at the Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia), acting as ambassadors for SUPERFRONT in collaboration with At Work With at the Nordic Pavilion to realize "30S", a crowdsourced video installation addressing the role of the architect in the design of public space. Please see Exhibit Description for more information about the theme.

You can be part of the exhibit!

• AGENCY kindly asks that you film your primary architectural workspace from a static vantage point, for 30 seconds, during your normal workday.
• Contributors are encouraged not to edit, alter, or tidy their workspace for purposes of the video, to leave all traces of productivity, personality, and creative expression.
• Filmed workspaces should be where you spend the most time during the day, and can include computer stations, drafting tables, model shops, fabrication labs, construction sites, classrooms, or a host of other environments conducive to architectural endeavor.
• No one should be filmed while working at the workstation. Just step away from your workstation and film what you see throughout the day.  Your workstation, through your eyes.
• Upload exactly 30 seconds of digital video to your account on YouTube, and email a link to your video to 30S@agencyarchitecture.com with 30S in the subject line.  Please send a link only.  Video files sent to this address, and links to other online video services will not be reviewed or shown.
• For crediting purposes, please name your video on YouTube in the following format:

30S_AGENCY_FirstName_LastName_City

substituting your first name, last name, and location of video in the appropriate spaces

Full credit will be given to all contributors whose videos are shown as part of the exhibit.

The exhibit opens on Tuesday, October 19. Join AGENCY, The Nordic Pavillion, and SUPERFRONT in person, or over Skype for a special introduction to the project at 5:00pm Venice time (CEST/UTC+2). '30S' will be on display from October 19, 2010 through the end of the Biennale on November 22, 2010.

Submissions will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis until October 19, 2010.  Late submissions will be reviewed and accepted on a weekly basis until November 21, 2010.

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By uploading a video and submitting a link, you authorize that AGENCY will not be responsible for content, imagery, and other material uploaded for inclusion in the show, that the video conforms to YouTube's Terms of Use, and that the video does not include confidential or copyrighted material, inappropriate or sensitive material, or intellectual property that is not your own.  

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