Mark Foster Gage Architects

 

Mark Foster Gage Architects combines the assets of a fully licensed architecture firm with pioneering expertise in emerging technologies and interdisciplinary collaborations. This two-decade expertise arms the practice with the ability to produce a much wider range of design ideas for clients than are afforded by typical architecture and design practices.  

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​Mark Foster Gage brings unique architectural experience to the table- as a protégée of Robert A.M. Stern and former studio assistant to Frank Gehry, the firm’s project design and delivery methods are based on those of the world’s most successful and diverse practices.  With twenty-five years of experience in New York City our office has contacts and collaborators who are the best in their respective fields, allowing us to form customized teams on a project-by-project basis. We do not believe in one-size-fits-all architectural strategies, styles, or ways of working-- and instead customize each project effort to best address the opportunities and problems as they are presented. As Mark Foster Gage is closely affiliated with Yale University, we often collaborate with experts in a wide range of disciplines in academia to help inform our work in historical, technological, philosophical, and strategic registers.  

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​We have worked with clients ranging from developers and luxury brands, to technology innovators, cultural institutions, and celebrities. Our client list includes recognizable names such as Intel Corporation, Google, Samsung, Vice Media, W Hotels, The Coachella Music Festival, the Biden-Harris Presidential Campaign, Lady Gaga H&M, Diesel, Bard College, Nicola Formichetti, The New York Times and JDS/Property Markets Group, We do a limited number of residential projects for private clients annually and are currently or have recently worked on projects in the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, China, Mexico, Japan, France, and Singapore.

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​Each project is an investigation into how the expectations for a project can be exceeded- functionally and aesthetically. While we value efficiency, sustainability, and respect budgetary constraints on all our projects, we also hold beauty, originality, and projects that are unique-in-the-world in very high regard, and seek clients who similarly value such ambitions.

 

​Mark Foster Gage Architects only accepts projects that seek to be truly innovative and groundbreaking in their design ambitions. As our work is extremely detailed and work-intensive we are selective regarding the clients we can collaborate with, and are only able to accept a limited number of projects on an annual basis. To be innovative in the 21st century demands that we often not only design the projects at-hand, but also frequently need to develop the software, design techniques, and fabrication methods that allow such projects to produced.  

 

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Mark Foster Gage

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Mark Foster Gage is the principal of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York City, author, theorist, tenured Associate Professor and former Assistant Dean at the Yale School of Architecture where he has taught since 2001. For over two decades his office has combined expertise in architecture, aesthetic philosophy, and emerging technologies for clients including Intel, Samsung, Google, Equinox, Lady Gaga, The Coachella Music Festival, The Saudi Royal Family and both the Biden/ Harris and Harris/Walz Presidential Campaigns.

 

Gage's work has been exhibited internationally in museums including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the National Gallery of Art in Japan, the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Royal Academy of Art in London, Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City, and the Venice, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Tallinn, and Prague Biennales. His work has been featured in most major architectural publications and over 200 international magazines and newspapers including Vogue, Fast Company, Wired, USA Today, Newsweek, The New York Times, and Harper’s Bazaar; as well as being featured on PBS, NBC, FOX, MTV, and The Travel Channel, China.  His research, design work and writings have been published in scholarly journals including the Military and Foreign Affairs Journal, Architectural Theory Review, Open Philosophy, The ACADIA Conference Proceedings, and Log where he guest-edited Issue 17 ”The Superficial Issue.”

 

Gage has written or edited 13 books, over fifty articles and essays, and has been a design contributor for CNN. His compiled writings and work have been the subject of two monographs- Mark Foster Gage: Projects and Provocations (Rizzoli, 2018), and Mark Foster Gage: Architecture in High Resolution. (Oro Editions, 2022). Gage has served on the Board of Directors for the MacDowell Colony and was a nominee for the Architecture Prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2022 he created The Mark Foster Gage Foundation, a private charitable 501(c)(3) organization that funds efforts to improve the built environment through offering grants for innovative architectural research, education, publications, and projects.