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Mark Foster Gage is an American architect practicing as head of his eponymous firm, Mark Foster Gage Architects, in New York City. He is also the Assistant Dean, Chair of Admissions and tenured Associate Professor at the Yale University School of Architecture where he has been on the faculty since 2001.
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Background and education
Gage holds a B.Arch. from the University of Notre Dame which he received in 1997 and a M.Arch. from Yale University.
Career
Mark Foster Gage is a practicing and licensed architect, professor, and writer. His design work has been featured in institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Venice Biennale, the Beijing Biennale, the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum in Berlin, and published in venues including Vogue, Fast Company, Vice, Wired, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, and on PBS, Fox and MTV. He has designed architectural projects across a variety of scales ranging from the new Live Arts Center at Bard College to the twenty-two story “Aurum” residential tower in Manhattan for Property Markets Group (unbuilt). In 2015, Gage grabbed headlines with a proposal for West 57th Street, a 102 story skyscraper, which went viral in the architectural and popular media. His work also includes smaller, advanced technology projects that have pioneered the use of physical interactivity, virtual reality, robotics, 3d printing, and spatial social media for clients such as Intel Corporation, Lady Gaga, Google, Diesel, H&M, Samsung, and Vice Media. Mr. Gage also oversees, as the Product Design Director for Nicola Formichetti’s “Nicopanda” fashion line, a new series of high-tech accessories ranging from iPhone cases to USB jewelry. Mr. Gage has received recognition in the form of nominations or awards from various institutions including the Architectural League of New York, the American Institute of Architects, The Chernikhov Foundation, The Ordoz Prize Foundation, and the USA Artists Fellows Program, and was named an “Avant Guardian of Architecture” by Surface Magazine.
Mr. Gage is a tenured professor, Chair of Admissions, and Assistant Dean at the Yale School of Architecture where he has taught since 2001. Prior to teaching at Yale, he taught at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, The Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture and he recently led a think-tank on Computational Aesthetics at the Royal Danish Academy. He has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on his design work, emerging trends in design, and his technological contributions to the field of architecture. Gage is a leading figure in the use of digital technologies in architecture and is affiliated with the philosophical movement surrounding Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology. Gage has written extensively on architecture, philosophy, and design in academic and popular publications including The Journal of Architectural Education, Volume, AD, Fulcrum, Mole, Perspecta, and Log, for which he also guest edited issue #19 with Florencia Pita. He has published several books including Composites, Surfaces and Software: High Performance Architecture, co-edited with Greg Lynn (Yale, 2012); Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design (WW Norton & Company, 2011); and the forthcoming 2016 monograph on his work entitled "The Software Diaries." Mr. Gage combines his unique background as a classically trained architect, protégé of Robert A.M. Stern, and studio assistant to Frank Gehry into a practice that "combines the best design techniques of the past with the emerging technologies of tomorrow."