AGENCY “is a collaborative interdisciplinary practice engaging contemporary culture through architecture, urbanism, and advocacy. The practice is an active thought leader in social practice, developing award-winning architectural projects and urban strategies at a variety of scales...The unprecedented challenges of rapid urbanization, ecological instability, and widespread resource depletion are matched only by an exponentially increasing capacity for innovation in architectural thought and production. Emerging technologies, communications, and models of practice offer a new generation the ability to identify and transform the most pressing urban and ecological issues through design. AGENCY positions architectural design as a systemic instrumentation of material ecologies, social constituencies, political policies, and ethical thought, embracing a transformative role, and enabling new paradigms of cultural production.”