Agencie

Originally from Colombia, Andrés has 25+ years of experience as an Architect and Builder.  A founding partner, Andrés was the lead inventor of the widely adopted pedestrian protection system, Urban Umbrella, which launched in 2012 after winning the Urban Shed International Competition. Andrés is LEED accredited, a Licensed Architect and General Contractor in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Florida. Andrés holds diplomas in Architecture from the University of Michigan and Columbia University.

A founding member of Agencie, Sarrah is the Technical Lead at Agencie.  She brings 22+ years of experience in structural engineering and enclosures.  Sarrah has worked across sectors, including museums, education, theatres, and petrochemical facilities.  Before founding Agencie, she worked at Bernard Tschumi Architects and Buro Happold on geometrically complex structures and facades.  She is a career-long educator and has taught at Yale, Georgia Tech, and Pratt and previously directed the Building Systems stream at Columbia University.

A native New Yorker, Damaris is the Technical Design Lead at Agencie. She brings over 8 years of professional experience and has led projects, teams and initiatives at traditional Architecture firms and Tech Start-Ups in the Design and Construction Industry. She is equally skilled and passionate about Architectural Design, Technical Innovation, and Project Management and enjoys facing the unique challenges each new project brings. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Howard University and a Master of Professional Studies in Design Management from Pratt Institute. She is a Licensed Architect in New York.

Ruying is the technical designer on some of Agencie’s most celebrated projects. She works on JFK Terminal One and several residential and commercial projects. Her expertise in architecture concepts and fine architectural and structural detailing is particularly notable. Ruying’s designs demonstrate how challenging and complicated projects can be creatively detailed to be both aesthetically stunning and easy to construct. Ruying has advanced expertise in BIM modelling and works extensively with Revit, , Rhino etc.