Fall Lecture Series: Mark Foster Gage

Mark Foster Gage, Principal, Mark Foster Gage Architects, New York, NY and Assistant Dean, Yale School of Architecture 

Lecture Title: “Recent Projects, Giant Lizards, Object Oriented Philosophy, Stupid Diagrams, Kitbashing, Mjolnir, Interactivity, Mario Bros, Styrofoam, Aesthetic Theory, Robot Legs, Transdisciplinarity and Laser Cats”

6:30pm, Lower Gallery, Meyerson Hall

Mark Foster Gage is a recognized innovator in the fields of architecture and design. His pioneering designs combining architectural practice with digital technologies, robotic construction and innovative materials have been exhibited in institutions including the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, and featured in the press in venues such as Vogue, Wired, Fast Company, The New York Times, USA Today, PBS and MTV. He currently holds the positions of Assistant Dean and Professor with Tenure at the Yale School of Architecture, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the MacDowell Colony. He has received awards and recognition for design from the American Institute of Architects, the Architectural League of New York, MoMA, the Princeton Architectural Press, ENYA, and was selected as Surface Magazine’s “Avant Guardian” of Architecture.  Gage has written extensively on architecture and design in academic and popular publications including Log, The Journal of Architectural Education, Volume, Fulcrum, Mole, and Perspecta.   He has published two books: Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design, and Composites, Surfaces and Software: High Performance Architecture, with Greg Lynn.  Gage's work has been exhibited at numerous international Biennales and he was one of 13 architects nominated, internationally, for the inaugural Ordos Prize in architecture – a group which Rem Koolhaas called the “next generation of great architects.”  After practicing with a partner for thirteen years as Gage / Clemenceau Architects, he reorganized his firm as Mark Foster Gage Architects in order to bring more construction-oriented innovation to an architecture and design practice capable of designing and building anything---across all scales and project types.  

http://www.mfga.com/