new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture
critic: Mark GAGE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Mary BURR & Katie STRANIX: This seminar focused on applying digital techniques and advanced form-making strategies to an analog or manual tradition of construction with the most historically valued and stable material—marble. The goal of the seminar was to rethink the possibilities of marble for a new generation of progressive use in architecture—in this case as an architectural panel.

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2011

With an introduction and critical headnotes explaining the importance of each text, Mark Foster Gage offers a framework for a provocative history of ideas about beauty as they relate to contemporary thinking on architecture and design. In a world increasingly defined by sumptuous visuality, the concepts of beauty and visual sensation are not mere intellectual exercises but standards that define the very nature of design practice across disciplines and that are essential to the emerging worlds of design and architecture in the twenty-first century.

2011

How computer technologies and digital fabrication techniques give architects unprecedented tools for crafting performance and aesthetics through cross-disciplinary collaboration. . . . Boat, airplane, and automobile design tools and software are now applied to architectural projects using robotics and high-strength, low-weight, carbon fiber composites. Greg Lynn’s studio and Mark Foster Gage’s seminar at Yale with participants Frank Gehry, Lise Ann Couture, Chris Bangle, and Greg Foley, among others generated a lively dialogue invigorating the future of design.

vienna AUSTRIA

Mark Foster Gage is at the forefront of a new generation of architects working to combine architectural practice with the innovative use of today’s most advanced technologies. The work of his firm, Gage/Clemenceau Architects ranges from large-scale architectural projects, to a dress for Lady Gaga, and from new store concepts for the fashion company Diesel, to interactive environments for Intel Corporation.

Mark Foster GAGE, “Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy.”
Thursday, 06/06
7.00 p.m. / Seminarraum A
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2
1010 Vienna, Austria

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture
criticL Mark Foster GAGE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Ryan CONNOLLY: This project is a new headquarters for the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), a non-profit, non-government space organization that seeks out research projects and facilitates revolutionary discoveries in the sciences, at First Ave. and 40th St. in Manhattan.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Mark Foster Gage is at the forefront of a new generation of architects working to combine design practice with the use of today’s most advanced technologies. His work ranges from architectural projects and products to interdisciplinary collaborations, recently with fashion designer Nicola Formichetti on costume pieces for Lady Gaga and a series of concept stores that recently opened in New York City, Hong Kong, and Beijing.

Mark Foster GAGE, “Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things”
Thursday, 01/31
6.30 pm / Hastings Hall
Paul Rudolph Hall
Yale School of Architecture
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

new haven CONNECTICUT

Yale School of Architecture
critic: Mark GAGE

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Katie STRANIX: The project is a new headquarters for CASIS, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, on the west side of First Avenue, between East 39th Street and East 40th Street in Manhattan. My project is about increasing public awareness of CASIS through the manipulation of materiality and movement and the juxtaposition of normative and spectacular forms.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

A generation ago, the post-modern quest for variation was a forceful plea against the dominant cultural technologies of the mechanical age. Today, digital technologies can deliver variations of all sorts and almost at no cost. Yet unlimited design variability inevitably challenges deeply ingrained assumptions of authorship. Contemporary digital culture and technologies favor and nurture a new notion of design indeterminacy, where objects are increasingly seen as systems able to self-organize and find the best solutions by themselves, when digitally empowered to do so.

Digital Design Theory Symposium: Digital Post-Modernities
Friday, 11/02
11.00 am - 4.30 pm / Smith Conference Room
Paul Rudolph Hall
180 York Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511

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ann arbor MICHIGAN

Mark Foster Gage is at the forefront of a new generation of architects working to combine design practice with the use of today’s most advanced technologies. His work ranges from architectural projects and products to interdisciplinary collaborations, most recently with fashion designer Nicola Formichetti on costume pieces for Lady Gaga and a series of concept stores that recently opened in New York City, Hong Kong, and Beijing.

mark foster GAGE, “Transmedia Architecture”
Monday, 09/24
6.00 pm / A+A Auditorium (Rm 2104)
Art + Architecture Building
A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI

new york NEW YORK

Gage / Clemenceau Architects, the firm described as “avant-garde” by the New York Times, recently completed a store in Hong Kong for Nicola Formichetti, fashion director of Mugler and creative director for Lady Gaga and Uniqlo. The flagship concept store is located inside Lane Crawford IFC with four satellite locations around Hong Kong. The project is an experimental fusion of architecture, fashion, social media, and visual special effects. Labeled the “future of retail environments”, the store houses a collection of original outfits from the personal archives of Lady Gaga as well as numerous other designs by Formichetti, including products from his new “Nicopanda” brand.

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