Radical Research & Re-storying Agency is an architectural-research agency grounded in the decolonial methodologies of re-contextualizing space and revealing the multiple stories that create the world.
We provide contextual research and new archival practices that delve into the entirety of space—ecology, culture, history, politics and socio-economics—whilst also reaching back into time to bring forward the wisdom of pre-colonial local societies, in order to provide architecture and design firms with new tools, information and methods, for creating a new future.
What we offer.
1 Historical analysis
2 Cultural and Communal analysis
3 Ecological and environmental analysis
4 Politics and Socio-economics analysis
We offer Research and Consultation packages to architecture firms.
Our work utilises research into historical and spatial analysis. We recognise that architects are visual thinkers therefore our work is both a critical analysis and a visual investigation. We re-appropriate architectural tools like digital modelling, 3D animation, GIS cartographic mapping in order to show that space, is in fact, political and there are a plethora of factors existing within context that must be included in the creation of architecture.
Who we are.
Victoria McKenzie is an independent researcher and academic lecturer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She completed her Bachelors at the University of Toronto with a specialist in Literature and Critical Theory, Urban studies and Human Geography and earned her M.A. with high distinction at Forensic Architecture’s ‘Centre for Research Architecture’, Goldsmiths’ University. Victoria is currently a PhD candidate at UCL, University of London with a research focus on Ecologies, Climate Change, and philosophies of being. She has worked with a variety of architecture firms and cultural institutions on the connections between art, politics and ecology such as Sir David Adjaye OBE’s Adjaye Associates; Forensic Architecture; Sandberg Instituut; Triennale di Milano; Piet Zwart Institute; MU Hybrid Art House and the Royal Academy of Design at The Hague.
www.victoriamckenzie.co
Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda (she/her)
Partner / Visual and Communication Lead
AA Dipl. M.Arch. ARB/RIBA Part II,
Architectural Association, UK
Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda is a social documentary and art photographer, documenting how people interact with the built environment. Educated as an architect at prominent universities such as ETH Zurich, University of the Arts Berlin, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London, where she earned her AA Diploma and Master of Architecture. Her work has been showcased in well-known publications and exhibitions, including the Architect's Journal, Wallpaper*, REAL, AA Bookshop, and the British School at Rome. In 2020, her thesis was highlighted in the Architect's Journal. She has also worked alongside famous architects and firms, such as Johnston Marklee, Valter Scelsi, Studio JK, and with Francis Kéré a winner of the Pritzker Prize.
Partner / Visual and Communication Lead
AA Dipl. M.Arch. ARB/RIBA Part II,
Architectural Association, UK
Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda is a social documentary and art photographer, documenting how people interact with the built environment. Educated as an architect at prominent universities such as ETH Zurich, University of the Arts Berlin, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London, where she earned her AA Diploma and Master of Architecture. Her work has been showcased in well-known publications and exhibitions, including the Architect's Journal, Wallpaper*, REAL, AA Bookshop, and the British School at Rome. In 2020, her thesis was highlighted in the Architect's Journal. She has also worked alongside famous architects and firms, such as Johnston Marklee, Valter Scelsi, Studio JK, and with Francis Kéré a winner of the Pritzker Prize.
Noah Gotlib (he/him)
Architecture / Communication Lead
AA Dipl. M.Arch. ARB/RIBA Part II,
Architectural Association, UK
Noah Gotlib, is a designer and researcher based in London, UK, holding a Master of Architecture/AA Diploma with Commendation from the Architectural Association. He has worked for several international architecture practises in London and Toronto including Vogt, Alison Brooks Architects, ERA, and PARTISANS, and taught design studio at the Architectural Association.
https://www.noahgotlib.com/
Architecture / Communication Lead
AA Dipl. M.Arch. ARB/RIBA Part II,
Architectural Association, UK
Noah Gotlib, is a designer and researcher based in London, UK, holding a Master of Architecture/AA Diploma with Commendation from the Architectural Association. He has worked for several international architecture practises in London and Toronto including Vogt, Alison Brooks Architects, ERA, and PARTISANS, and taught design studio at the Architectural Association.
https://www.noahgotlib.com/
Felix Peng Fei Yang (he/him)
Architecture Lead
M.Arch., McGill University, CA
Felix Peng Fei Yang is an architect based in Berlin, Germany. He is a graduate of the schools of architecture at McGill University and University of Waterloo in Canada. His Master’s research of visual languages in architecture at McGill University received federal funding through the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Felix has worked across scales at various international research and architecture practices including, WORKac, Arquitectonica, Lateral Office, SvN and Büro Ole Scheeren.
https://felixyang.com
Architecture Lead
M.Arch., McGill University, CA
Felix Peng Fei Yang is an architect based in Berlin, Germany. He is a graduate of the schools of architecture at McGill University and University of Waterloo in Canada. His Master’s research of visual languages in architecture at McGill University received federal funding through the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Felix has worked across scales at various international research and architecture practices including, WORKac, Arquitectonica, Lateral Office, SvN and Büro Ole Scheeren.
https://felixyang.com
Collaborators
SOCA, Studio of Contemporary Architecture, Toronto. https://socadesign.ca
BAIDA, Black Architects and Interior Designers Association, Toronto. https://www.baida.ca
Karim Fouad, AA Dipl. M.Arch ARB/RIBA Part II, Cairo. IG: @mogasam.obj
Alvin Luong, BA (Hons) with High Distinction, Toronto. www.alvinluong.com
Russell Royer, AA Dipl. (Hons) M.Arch ARB/RIBA Part II, London. IG: @thechoreum
Elias Tamer, AA Dipl. ARB/RIBA Part II, Beirut. www.collectiveforarchitecture-lb.com
BAIDA, Black Architects and Interior Designers Association, Toronto. https://www.baida.ca
Karim Fouad, AA Dipl. M.Arch ARB/RIBA Part II, Cairo. IG: @mogasam.obj
Alvin Luong, BA (Hons) with High Distinction, Toronto. www.alvinluong.com
Russell Royer, AA Dipl. (Hons) M.Arch ARB/RIBA Part II, London. IG: @thechoreum
Elias Tamer, AA Dipl. ARB/RIBA Part II, Beirut. www.collectiveforarchitecture-lb.com
Radical Research & Re-Storying Agency
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T +44 7523 930075
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A Hollandse Tuin 4, 1013 DN Amsterdam
T +44 7523 930075
M mail@rraagency.com