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Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, El Paso Texas

Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller are registered architects and founders of AGENCY, a design and research practice leveraging spatial design and information to counteract global and urban inequality. Located on the US/Mexico border, their work engages emerging publics in protracted, conflictual contexts by consistently shifting the narrative, developing targeted methods to identify, appropriate, and subvert subperceptual urban and atmospheric phenomena.

Their awards include the Rome Prize in Architecture, the Architecture award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Emerging Voices award from The Architectural League of New York, among others. They are fellows of MacDowell and The New York Foundation for the Arts. Ersela and Stephen each hold a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University GSAPP. They are coauthors of Fronts: Military Urbanisms and the Developing World (AR+D, 2020) and are published widely.

Their work has been exhibited around the world, including at the Venice Biennale, the Hong KongShenzhen Biennale, the Berlin Biennale, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture, among others. Ersela and Stephen are Associate Professors at Texas Tech University College of ArchitectureEl Paso, where they co-direct POST (Project for Operative Spatial Technologies) on the US-Mexico border and are founding organizers of the binational Border Consortium for Actionable Spatial Research and Practice. Ersela is the director of architecture at TTU El Paso.