Mark Foster Gage: “Architecture in High Resolution” [SoA Lecture Series]
WEDNESDAY Nov-18 @ 6:30pm EST
[Public Livestream Link]
MARK FOSTER GAGE:
“Architecture in High Resolution”
Rensselaer School of Architecture concludes its Fall 2021 Lecture Series this Wednesday November 3rd at 6:30pm EST with the online lecture “Architecture in High Resolution” by architect Mark Foster Gage.
Mark Foster Gage is an architect, writer, and theorist. He is the founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York City.
The firm’s architectural projects include Virtual Reality World, an entertainment center in New York City; Diesel 101, an experimental retail environment for the fashion brand Diesel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; a 5,000 square foot interactive environment for H&M at the Coachella Music Festival; and the first retail store for fashion designer Nicola Formichetti (AIA NY Design Award). As an interdisciplinary practice working across multiple scales the studio has also completed projects as diverse as a 3D-printed outfit for Lady Gaga; a new line of products for MAC cosmetics; an accessories line for the fashion label “Nicopanda”; and “The Khaleesi”- a speculative proposal for a 102-storey residential tower located on West 57th street in Manhattan.
He is an Associate Professor at Yale University School of Architecture. His academic expertise is in the field of aesthetic philosophy, currently focusing on how the built environment impacts issues of social equality. He is the author of Designing Social Equality: Architecture Aesthetics and the Perception of Democracy (Routledge, 2018), and editor of multiple books including, most recently, Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Art, Architecture and Philosophy (MIT Press, 2019). Gage’s design work and compiled writings from have been the subject of two monographs: Mark Foster Gage: Projects and Provocations(Rizzoli, 2018), and Thought Through Form: The Work of Mark Foster Gage (Tongji University Press, 2020).
This lecture is sponsored by Mosaic Architects.