Publications by Mark Foster Gage

Mark Foster Gage

Mark Foster Gage

Associate Professor

Mark Foster Gage is an architect, writer, and theorist. Since 2002 Gage’s New York City firm, Mark Foster Gage Architects, has combined philosophical and technological speculation with the assets of a fully licensed architectural practice for clients such as Lady Gaga, Intel, The Biden/ Harris Presidential Campaign, Google, Samsung, W Hotels, The Coachella Music Festival, and Vice Media. Gage’s work has been exhibited in museums internationally including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Royal Academy of Art in London, The Royal Danish Academy Gallery, the National Gallery of Art in Japan, the Frac Center in Orléans, The Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City, and the Venice, Beijing, and Prague Biennales. His work has been featured in most major architectural publications as well as Vogue, Fast Company, Wired, USA Today, The New York Times, Surface, Vice, A+U, and on PBS, CNN, Fox, and MTV. He is also a CNN design contributor. Gage’s design work and compiled writings from have been the subject of two monographs: Mark Foster Gage: Projects and Provocations (Rizzoli, 2018), and Mark Foster Gage: Architecture in High Resolution (Oro Press, 2022).

In addition to his architectural practice, Gage has, through over two decades of teaching a Yale, developed an academic expertise in the field of aesthetic philosophy-a field in which he has published numerous books including Designing Social Equality: Architecture Aesthetics and the Perception of Democracy (Routledge, 2018), Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Art, Architecture and Philosophy (MIT Press, 2019), and Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design (Norton, 2012), which was recently translated into a new edition with additional texts by Alain Badiou, Jaques Ranciere, and Slavoj Žižek. He also edited, with Greg Lynn, Composites, Surfaces and Software: High-Performance Architecture (Yale/ Norton, 2009). He has also written for the Journal of Architectural Education, Volume, Fulcrum, Perspecta, Vesper, AD, The Routledge Handbook of Architectural Design, Plat, Oz, the BIFT Journal, and Log, where he was a guest editor of Issue #17. During his time at Yale he has served as the Chair of Admissions, Assistant Dean, Ph.D. Advisor for the Yale UCL program, and spent ten years developing the school’s digital resources and theoretical curriculum. Gage has served on the Board of Directors for the MacDowell Colony and was recently a nominee for the Architecture Prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Education
BArch University of Notre Dame
MArch Yale University

Courses

1260
Spring 2024
Beauty, Wonder & Awe
Mark Foster Gage
1110
Fall 2023
The City of Lost Gold
Mark Foster Gage
1228
Fall 2023
Ruins, Ruination and Reuse
Mark Foster Gage
1228
Spring 2023
Ruins, Ruination and Reuse
Mark Foster Gage
1021
Fall 2022
Architectural Design 3
Emily Abruzzo, Peter de Bretteville, Rychiee Espinosa, Mark Foster Gage, Rachely Rotem, Jae Shin
1256
Fall 2022
Architects Lost & Found: Rethinking Architectural Canon
Mark Foster Gage
1111
Spring 2022
Advanced Design Studio: Paradise Not Quite Lost
Mark Foster Gage
1228
Spring 2022
Ruins, Ruination, and Reuse
Mark Foster Gage
1228
Spring 2021
Ruins and Ruination
Mark Foster Gage
3073
Spring 2021
Design Research II: Emerging Schools of Thought
Mark Foster Gage
1021
Fall 2020
Architectural Design 3
Emily Abruzzo, Stella Betts, Peter de Bretteville, Mark Foster Gage, Bika Rebek
1219
Fall 2020
Designing Social Equality: The Politics of Matter
Mark Foster Gage
1228
Spring 2020
Ruins and Ruination
Mark Foster Gage
1109
Fall 2019
Advanced Design Studio: The Architecture of Thought
Mark Foster Gage, Graham Harman
1239a
Fall 2019
Theory Through Objects: Political Form
Mark Foster Gage
1228
Spring 2019
Disheveled Geometries: Ruins and Ruination
Mark Foster Gage
4241b
Spring 2018
The Future of American Infrastructure
Mark Foster Gage
1021
Fall 2017
Second-Year Core Studio
Emily Abruzzo, Peter de Bretteville, Martin Finio, Mark Foster Gage, Aniket Shahane
1239a
Fall 2017
Active Form
Mark Foster Gage
1228
Spring 2017
Disheveled Geometries: Kitbashing Modernist Icons
Mark Foster Gage
1107
Fall 2016
Papahānaumokuākea: Dark Ecology and Strange Toys
Mark Foster Gage
1239a
Fall 2016
Activist Form
Mark Foster Gage
1228
Spring 2016
Disheveled Geometries
Mark Foster Gage
1228
Spring 2015
Disheveled Geometries: Partial Figures
Mark Foster Gage
3299b
Spring 2015
Independent Course Work
Mark Foster Gage