Mark Foster Gage Architects is a New York–based firm founded by designer and Yale theorist, Mark Foster Gage. An internationally recognized practice, the studios work has been featured in media venues ranging from Vogue, Fast Company, USA Today and Wired, to PBS, NPR, and MTV. The firms work has been exhibited in museums around the world including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Osaka, Japan, the Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, the Frac Center in Orléans, France, The Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City, and art and architecture bienalles in Venice, Beijing, Tallinn, Prague and Buenos Aires.
Recently built architetural projects include the largest virtual reality entertainment center in the western hemisphere- Virtual Reality World, 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, a sculptural $22 million penthouse in Soho, Manhattan and the first retail store for fashion designer Nicola Formichetti, which received both a Mashie Award for Digital Marketing Innovator of the Year as well as an AIA NY Design Award. As an interdisciplinary practice working across multiple scales the studio has also completed projects as diverse as an outfit for Lady Gaga, a new line of products for MAC cosmetics, an accessories line for the fashion label “Nicopanda,” and the viral sensation “The Khaleesi”- an internationally celebrated speculative proposal for a 102-storey residential tower located on West 57th street in Manhattan.
Book publications on the firms work includes two monographs: Mark Foster Gage: Projects and Provocations (Rizzoli, 2018), and Thought Through Form: The Work of Mark Foster Gage (Tongji Univeristy Press, 2020).
