EDITED VOLUMES:
2022 Ago, Viola, Guest Editor, Alt-Form: Indeterminacy and Disorder, AD (Architectural Design) Magazine, Volume 92, Issue 2, John Wiley & Sons, Print, 2022.
2021 Ago, Viola, and Brian Slocum, et al, eds. ACADIA 2020 Distributed Proximities: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (Papers). IngramSpark, Print, 2021.
2021 Ago, Viola, and Maria Yablonina, et al, eds. ACADIA 2020 Distributed Proximities: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (Projects). IngramSpark, Print, 2021.
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR:
2026 Ago, Viola, Guest Contributor, Title Forthcoming, in Jussi Parikka: How do Machines See Architecture?, Eds. Hans Tursack with Joseph Bedford and Matthew Allen, Bloomsbury Academic, Book chapter. Print, 2026.
2023 Ago, Viola, Guest Contributor, On the Violence-Aggression Axis: Process, Representation, Sensory, in Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture, Eds. Carl Lostritto, AR+D, Book chapter. Print, 2023, Pg 249-285.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
2025 Ago, Viola, Temporal Flows and Conceptual Measures, in Architecture and Video Games, Eds Vinvent Hui, Ryan Scavnicky, Tatiana Victorovna Estrina, Routledge, Book chapter. Print, 2024, Pg 177-189.
2024 Ago, Viola, An Aesthetic Inquiry of Mechanical Systems: Code, Graphics, Form, in Bio/Matter/Techno Synthetics, Eds. Franca Trubiano, Susan Kolber, Marta Llor, Maria Fuentes, and Amber Farrow, ACTAR, Book chapter. Print, 2024, Pg 290-305
2024 Ago, Viola, Deep Vista: Active Surface, Simulated Violence, in Design Technology and Digital Production: An Architecture Anthology, Eds Gabriel Esquivel, Routledge, Book chapter. Print, 2024, Pg 91-96.
2021 Ago, Viola, Occupying Categorical Limits: Material, Attitude, Assembly, in Digital Fabrication in Interior Design: Body, Object, Enclosure, Eds. Lois Weinthal and Jonathon Anderson, Routledge, Book chapter. Print, 2021, Pg 190-204.
2018 Ago, Viola, Images: Computational Drawings and Representation, in Instabilities and Potentialities, Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture, Eds. Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher, Routledge, Book chapter. Print, 2018, Pg 56-64.
ARTICLES:
2022 Ago, Viola, Stylishly Against Style, New York Review of Architecture (NYRA) #30, New York, NY. Print, 2022. (invited)
2021 Ago, Viola, A Paradoxical Account of Western Oppression and Liberation Agendas, CARTHA Magazine, Park Books, Print, 2021. (open call)
2020 Ago, Viola, Fusion Axis: A Phenomenological Inquiry on Process, PLAT Journal, Houston, TX. Print, 2020, Pg 48-57. (invited)
2019 Ago, Viola, Compositional Physics and Other Diagrams of Force, Log 46, New York, NY. Print, 2019, Pg 33-43. (open call)
2019 Ago, Viola, Series and Other Unit Based Alternatives, Discrete: Reappraising the Digital in Architecture, AD Magazine, Eds. Gilles Retsin, Magazine Volume 89, Issue 2. John Wiley & Sons, Print, 2019, Pg 110-117. (invited)
2018 Ago, Viola, Some Drawings and Objects, Offramp 15: Stuff. Eds. Ravi Chandar, Yara Feghali, Dylan Krueger, Danny Wills, Article. Web, Summer 2018. (invited) https://offramp.sciarc.edu/articles/models-are-drawings-that-believe-in-miracles
2018 Ago, Viola, Models are Drawings that Believed in Miracles, Dimensions 30. Ann Arbor, MI: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Print, 2018, Pg 151-160. (invited)
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
2025 Ago, Viola, "Your eyes resemble mine" and the Concept of Hauntology, Interior Provocations 2025, Weather. Forthcoming.
2022 Ago, Viola, and Hans Tursack, Understorey: A Pavilion in Parts, ACADIA 2022, Hybrids and Heacceities. Print, 2022.
2020 Ago, Viola, Embedded Seriality: An Anti-Stylistic Reading of Current Modes of Code, Design and Culture, TxA Emerging Design + Technology Journal, Texas Society of Architects, Austin, TX. Print, 2020, 80-89.
2018 Ago, Viola, and Hans Tursack, THICK SKIN: Graphic Tectonics + Digital Fabrication, ACADIA 2018, Recalibration: On Imprecision and Infidelity. Print, 2018, Pg 252-257.
2018 Ago, Viola, Of Process, Mark, and Figure (Series), Discursive Images, the Journal of Architectural Education JAE (72:1), Routledge. Print 2018, Pg 14-15.
PROFESSIONAL + SCHOLARLY ARTICLES:
2020 Ago, Viola and Partisan Architects, Serious Playfulness: 6 Young Firms Balancing Experimentation and Pragmatism, Artifizi Journal, Azure Magazine, Toronto, ON. Web, 2020. https://www.azuremagazine.com/article/serious-playfulness-6-young-firms-balancing-experimentation-and-pragmatism/
2019 Ago, Viola, Acadia 2018 focused on imprecision in digital design, The Architect’s Newspaper, Web, January 28, 2019. https://archpaper.com/2019/01/acadia-2018-focused-on-imprecision-in-digital-design/
2018 Ago, Viola, and Hans Tursack, Thick Skin, ARTIFIZI, Aricle. Web, March 2018. http://artifizi.com/?portfolio=thick-skin-by-viola-ago-and-hans-tursack
2018 Ago, Viola, Of Process, Mark, and Figure (Series), Drawing Codes, Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation. Exhibition Catalogue, Print, 2017, Pg 6-7.
2018 Ago, Viola, Fellow Fellows: Viola Ago, Archinect, 30 Mar. 2018. https://archinect.com/features/article/150057389/fellow-fellows-viola-ago
2017 Ago, Viola, and Hans Tursack, Cross-Talk #3: Biennales, Triennials and Exhibitions, Archinect, 28 Dec, 2017. archinect.com/features/article/150042651/cross-talk-3-viola-ago-hans-tursack-on-biennales-triennials-andexhibitions
2016 Ago, Viola. Immersion in robotic design keeps ACADIA workshops true to 'Posthuman Frontiers' theme, Archinect News, November 10, 2016. http://archinect.com/news/article/149977567/immersion-in-robotic-design-keeps-acadia-workshops- true-to posthuman- frontiers-theme