Mark Gage

Mark Foster Gage is a recognized innovator in the fields of architecture and design. His pioneering designs combining architectural practice with digital technologies, advanced materials, and emerging media platforms 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 is currently holds the positions of Assistant Dean and Associate Professor with tenure at the Yale School of Architecture, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. 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, and was selected as Surface Magazine’s “Avant Guardian” of Architecture. Gage has written extensively on theoretical topics in architecture in academic 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 one of 10 architects selected to represent the United States in the 2011 Beijing Biennale, and 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.” He recently presented his work at the 2014 Venice Architectural Biennale. 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 and interdisciplinary thinking to architecture.