Tei Carpenter

I’m excited to share that “New York, New Publics” opens to the public today @themuseumofmodernart and is on view until July 29. New Public Hydrant in collaboration with @chriswoebken is featured in the exhibition along with our “Water Is…”Workshop in collaboration with @_oni and @khwar_deen and @youthdesigncenter . Deeply grateful for this rewarding experience and to work with amazing people 💙 Thank you to curators @evangelos.kotsioris @paulavilaplane @martino.stierli for including us in such great company and for the support. Special thanks to the design team over the years @tanyamaneein @visionari @ashelykuo @nzeynepugur and to @obfluent and @agoodplumber for the help and care in fabricating the works and hydrants 🚿 *** New Public Hydrant is a series of prosthetic devices that attach to fire hydrants in order to democratize access to water in New York City. These hydrant “hacks” propose a new relationship to public utilities and infrastructure in the city. The prototypes include bottle-fill stations, a multi-species drinking fountain, and a cooling sprinkler playground. The “Water Is… Workshop” organized with the Youth Design Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn is a design jam that engaged with youth to design with water and infrastructure as a collective resource in the neighborhood. For the exhibition, playful concept designs from the workshop were translated and developed as full scale prototypes including a solar hot water station and a sprinkler boombox. *** Photos (1) Installation view (2) Opening reception of the exhibition “Architecture Now: New York, New Publics.” February 19–July 29, 2023. Photograph by Alycia Kravitz. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. (3) Exhibition scene with Chris Woebken (4) Chris Woebken and concept designer Isaac Scotland (5) Workshop facilitators with Chris Woebken and Emmanuel Oni ✨

So happy to see this in print - thank you @cultured_mag and @emmaleighmacdonald for including us as one of the 2023 Young Architects! What amazing company with @mnjaekim @cookingsections @maioarchitects @mattaforma @estudioflume @interval.projects @jeremy.schipper @limboaccra @ladi.sasha 🌸🌼

🤸🏻‍♀️HIGH KICK ☄️ Grateful and honored to be included in PIN–UP 30 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗖𝗬 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗥𝗦 (𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝟮/𝟮) Spring Summer 2021 New New York Architects ⚡️🗽🖤 with an incredible group of designers and #frankgehry (cover 1/2) Thank you @febubufe @drewzeiba @whitneymallett Photographed by Tanya and Zhenya Posternak (@tanyaposternak @zposternak ) Interviews by Drew Zeiba (@drewzeiba ) Creative Direction and Design by OBG (@officebenganz ) Styling by Akari Endo Gaut (@akariendogaut ) Set Design by Julia Wagner (@frau.juliawagner ) Makeup by Meredith Menchel (@meredithmenchel ) Production and post-production by VS+Company (@vsandco ) Styling Assistance by Pascal Mihranian #PINUP30 #PINUPLEGACY #bottegaveneta

@dezeen US Editor, Ben Dreith, interviewed Princeton University School of Architecture Professor Beatriz Colomina for his recent piece on the SoA’s latest exhibition, M+Mx25, Media and Modernity: 25 Years of Thinking Through Mediation. Alongside Foivos Geralis @geralisfoivos and Antonio Cantero, Colomina curated M+Mx25, which marks the 25th anniversary of the Media and Modernity program at Princeton University. On view through May 1, the exhibition was designed by Agency—Agency led by SoA Assistant Professor Tei Carpenter @teicarpenter with graphic design by Laura Coombs. To the publication, Carpenter notes: “We hope that the exhibition presents the incredible Media and Modernity archive in such a way that there is no one thing that is foregrounded, but instead it offers a non-hierarchical, polyvocal way to understand the program and its life both within the Princeton classroom and how its impact has rocketed around the world. See the link in bio to read the full story in Dezeen. The show also received a spotlight in @archrecordmag , where it is featured in a roundup of exhibitions and other events taking place this month.

Over a century ago, George Washington Carver brought the Jesup Agricultural Wagon to rural communities across the South. It was a traveling classroom, sharing practical knowledge on farming, soil health, and new ways to use plants for food, textiles, and color. In the Fall of 2025, the Civilizations of Color research team at Yale CEA developed the Carver Mobile Color Lab inspired by Carver. Partnering with @armorycommunitygarden in New Haven to host a couple of participatory workshops exploring natural dyes and pigments sourced from food, agricultural and forestry by products, local clays and quarry mineral by-products in New Haven and Macon County. Working with gardeners, students, and neighbors, participants experimented with making color from materials usually treated as waste on a range of building materials - local woods, hempcrete, mycelium and earth masonry. Color Development and Workshop Team: Mae-ling Lokko, Laetitia Morlie, Brigid Elrod, Rebecca Mqamelo Fabrication: Mae-ling Lokko, Oswaldo Chinchilla, Alireza Samani Zamani, Laetitia Morlie, Moss Brener-Bryant Funding: Yale ASCEND Faculty Collaboration Grant (Yale CEA and Tuskegee School of Architecture) #carvercolorlab #plantone #jesupwagon #georgewashingtoncarver healthymaterials naturaldyes mineralpigments

Media and Modernity: 25 Years of Thinking Through Mediation, on view through May 1, 2026 at the Princeton University School of Architecture (SoA), has been featured in The Architect’s Newspaper @archpaper . The exhibition is curated by SoA Professor Beatriz Colomina with Foivos Geralis, and Antonio Cantero. The exhibition’s design was overseen by Agency—Agency led by SoA Assistant Professor Tei Carpenter, while the graphic design was by Laura Coombs. Related programming tied to the exhibition includes a forthcoming panel to be held April 7 in the School of Architecture’s room N-107 at 5pm. Titled “Media Since 2000,” the panel will open with remarks by Devin Fore, followed by a discussion on the intertwined histories of media and modernity with the program’s core faculty. To read the article, see our link in bio. Photos: Ian Byers-Gamber @bamblerdander @teicarpenter @geralisfoivos @lauracoombs

Last night the Princeton University School of Architecture welcomed a vibrant crowd to celebrate the opening of M+Mx25 Media + Modernity 25 Years of Thinking Through Mediation, a new exhibition in the North Gallery. On view through May 1, the show charts the many creative expressions–from books to exhibitions and dialogue—that the interdisciplinary program has generated over the last two-plus decades. Curators: Beatriz Colomina, Foivos Geralis and Antonio Cantero Exhibition Design: Agency—Agency (Tei Carpenter, Saralee Sittigaroon) @teicarpenter #Princeton #PrincetonSoA #PrincetonArchitecture #M+Mx25

The spectacular Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto. Snuck in right before the New Year!!

The Interactive Seating Program for the @carnegiemuseumofart new installation of its permanent collection begins in the Charles “Teenie” Harris gallery. The design of the Seating Program builds a language of intentional art looking, creating a set of encounters that centers visitor experience for diverse publics ranging in age, body type, and ability. It encourages sitting, talking, drawing, learning, and alternative modes of being with art such as listening stations and areas for multi-generational interactions. The modular system of seating is designed as a family of elements that embraces the body and the embodied act of looking and learning, recognizing the full person as integral to the museum experience. The family of elements is designed so that each element can stand alone as a furniture piece, but they can also be reassembled in a variety of ways in response to specific needs. The family of elements provides a unified design approach while also providing variety with color, material, and typology, to create a unique yet synthetic identity within the other permanent gallery spaces. Major thank you to @ericwcrosby @danamindlbr @_clarissamorales and the @carnegiemuseumofart team for this inspiring prompt and opportunity. Agency—Agency Design team: Tei Carpenter, @jake_rosenwald @charlotte_teng Fabrication: @new.project ✨✨✨ @museumseats

📸 Scenes from last week’s Wendy Evans Joseph Lecture on Art and Architecture, where artist @mel.chin spoke about how he has used his collaborative, multidisciplinary practice to address the urgencies of the current moment for decades, followed by a discussion with @teicarpenter of Agency—Agency. A recording of the lecture will be released soon. Stay tuned! #ArchLeagueWEJ

The House Transformed exhibition opens tonight @princetonarchitecture Thrilled to be part of the exhibition with Cascade House a prototype for multi-generational living that rethinks the urban infill through the lens of water and the wet wall. Cascade House disengages the infill parti wall, tilting it to create a big translucent roof, creating a generosity of light and outdoor space at each of the four levels. Inside, the building consolidates the wet walls with the circulation core, uncoupling the core from the parti wall. Heightened programmatic conditions for multi-generational co-parenting ensue creating thresholds of life for humor, intimacy, and new thermal sensations. A wet floor elevates and combines water related elements and habits of the home: laundry, cleaning, bathing, showering, toileting, washing, all transform from isolated chores to collective multi-generational shared living events. Bedrooms are designed as flexible spaces with moveable fabric enclosure to create combinatory choice and continuity between living, playing, and sleeping.  The sloped roof, gutters, and downspout welcome rain water to create a kitchen garden, outdoor shower, and make visible water flows on the terraces into the side lot and back yard. The home embraces wetness and rethinks it in relation to its interior and exterior, unfolding out of wet infrastructure, channelizing the flows of water as part of the rituals of the seasons and daily life. Curators: Mónica Ponce de Leon with Shoshanna Torn and Massimo Giannone Design team: Tei Carpenter and Madeline Kim @__deline

Rocket Round with @teicarpenter Her inspirations, passions, and lessons as an architect and creative voice. Full episode link in bio. 📍Recorded @wsanyc