Tei Carpenter is founder and director of Agency—Agency. Trained in philosophy and architecture, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University where she was a Royce Fellow and her Master of Architecture degree at Princeton University where she was awarded the Howard Crosby Butler Traveling Fellowship in Architecture. Tei has lectured internationally and alongside her practice, she has taught at a number of institutions including Brown University, Columbia University GSAPP, the University of Toro