Architect Mark Foster Gage to Present Fay Jones School Lecture on April 11

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West 57th Street Tower, Sky Lobby Exterior (Image courtesy of Mark Foster Gage Architects)

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Mark Foster Gage will present a lecture at 5 p.m. Monday, April 11, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series. The public is invited to attend. Admission is free, with limited seating.

Gage is the founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects, based in New York City. 

In the lecture, titled "Recent Projects, Giant Lizards, Object Oriented Philosophy, Stupid Diagrams, Kitbashing, Mjolnir, Interactivity, Mario Bros, Styrofoam, Aesthetic Theory, Robot Legs, Transdisciplinarity and Laser Cats," he will discuss his work in the context of the state of contemporary architecture. The talk will cover progressive design, digital technologies, Object Oriented Ontology as the dominant theoretical position in architecture, and alternate modes of architectural practice.

Gage is a recognized innovator in the fields of architecture and design. His pioneering designs combining architectural practice with digital technologies, robotic construction and innovative materials have been exhibited in institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, and featured in the press in venues such as Vogue, Wired, Fast Company, The New York Times, USA Today, PBS and MTV.

He currently holds the positions of assistant dean and professor with tenure at the Yale School of Architecture, where he has been on the faculty since 2001. He also serves as a member of the board of directors for the MacDowell Colony.

He has received awards and recognition for design from the American Institute of Architects, the Architectural League of New York, MoMA, the Princeton Architectural Press, ENYA, and was selected as Surface magazine's "Avant Guardian" of Architecture.  

Gage has written extensively on architecture and design in academic and popular publications including Log, The Journal of Architectural Education, Volume, Fulcrum, Mole and Perspecta. He has published two books: Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design and Composites, Surfaces and Software: High Performance Architecture, the latter with Greg Lynn.

Gage's work has been exhibited at numerous international Biennales, and he was one of 13 architects nominated internationally for the inaugural Ordos Prize in architecture — a group that Rem Koolhaas called the "next generation of great architects." After practicing with a partner for 13 years as Gage / Clemenceau Architects, he reorganized his firm as Mark Foster Gage Architects in order to bring more construction-oriented innovation to an architecture and design practice capable of designing and building anything — across all scales and project types.  

Through a cooperative effort between the Fay Jones School, the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Arkansas ASLA Chapter as an ASLA LA CES provider, this presentation has been approved for 1.5 LA CES continuing education hours for landscape architects.

This lecture also qualifies for AIA Continuing Education System learning units.

This is the William F. Pendergrass Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates.

For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or fayjones.uark.edu/.