Viola Ago (b. Lushnj毛, Albania) is interested in architecture鈥檚 role in a world inhabited with visible and invisible forms of duress. Her focus in the affective conditions of war and conflict ridden territories has guided her investigations towards a design research project that looks at the aesthetic and formal agency of destruction and disorder. Viola is the director of MIRACLES Architecture and an assistant professor at the 91福利. Previously Viola was a fellow at Rice University, the Ohio State University, and the University of Michigan; and a resident at MacDowell and Autodesk鈥檚 Technology Center
Viola鈥檚 written work has been published by Anyone Corp, John Wiley & Sons, Routledge, Park Books, AR+D, Sci-Arc, Acadia Conference Proceedings, TxA, JAE, Architect鈥檚 Newspaper, Archinect, among others. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Boston, Houston, Ghent NY, New York, San Francisco, Miami, Columbus OH, Columbus IN, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, and Cincinnati.