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What ideas are currently energising your architectural work and
explorations? Why did these ideas become impactful while others did
not? What role did mentors and peers play in the development of
these ideas? What were your breakthrough insights or aha moments?
What is next for you, and for the discipline and discourse of
architecture? For this book, Mark Foster Gage has selected 11 of
the most noteworthy and fascinating conversations from his
year-long project of documenting the ideas of the next generation
of designers who are revolutionising the nature of architectural
practice and theory today. This remarkable collection of casual,
informative, and personal interviews engages 15 architects as they
reveal what made them who they are, what propels their
architectural work forward, and what they anticipate comes next. A
noted practitioner, tenured Yale professor, CNN design contributor,
and respected insider of the international architectural scene,
Mark Foster Gage has spent his professional life with many of the
most important figures in architectural discourse and practice.
With this book he focuses on an emerging generation of
practitioners — approaching his subjects with a characteristic
mix of insight, wit, and humour in a book that is consistently
entertaining and informative as the architects open up in
unexpected ways about their beliefs, work, lives and thoughts about
where architecture, and they, are headed next.
In the course of a ten-month invited competition Mark Foster Gage
Architects, using tools ranging from artificial intelligence to 3D
fractal software, re-invented the design languages of the ancient
Nabatean civilisation located on the Arabian Peninsula to propose
the first Saudi resort in the modern era that would be open for
international tourists. Isolated in a vast desert, with little
infrastructure and virtually no visitors, lie the ancient ruins of
Mada’in Saleh, and the site for the project. With 500 pages and
over 1,500 images this is a book that documents the design process
of this project, complete with all of its ideas, misdirections,
failures, restarts, breakthroughs, and everything
in-between. Of interest to architects and non-architects
alike, this book heralds a new generation of creative techniques
and design technologies that promise to redefine how we think of
the past, present and future of the built environment in the 21st
century and beyond. Â
In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic
realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality,
and the design of our physical world. By reconsidering historic
concepts from aesthetic philosophy and weaving them with emerging
intellectual positions from a variety of disciplines, he sets out
to design a more encompassing social theory for how humanity
perceives its very reality, and how it might begin to more justly
define that reality through new ways of reconsidering the built
environment.
In Designing Social Equality, Mark Foster Gage proposes a dramatic
realignment between aesthetic thought, politics, social equality,
and the design of our physical world. By reconsidering historic
concepts from aesthetic philosophy and weaving them with emerging
intellectual positions from a variety of disciplines, he sets out
to design a more encompassing social theory for how humanity
perceives its very reality, and how it might begin to more justly
define that reality through new ways of reconsidering the built
environment.
Architect to Lady Gaga and Nicola Formichetti, Mark Foster Gage has
spent 20 years leading the digital architectural avant-garde,
pushing the boundaries of what is possible in architecture and
design and exploding expectations. This volume features built and
unbuilt work from around the globe, from a penthouse in downtown
Manhattan to retail stores in Hong Kong. The work shown goes beyond
traditional architecture to the realm of fashion and fine art, and
includes Gage s celebrated Valentine s Sculpture for Times Square,
a 3-D-printed outfit for Lady Gaga, as well as designs for Google
Glass, Solar Flowers, and robotic tulips. Mark Foster Gage, whose
work Harper s Bazaar has called effortlessly chic and who has been
labelled a boundary breaker, is a visionary for today. Filled with
surprises and creations of wonder, such as a tower for New York s
57th Street with mouthlike balconies on giant wings or a retail
space bedecked with a hundred-faceted mirror, Gage s work at once
challenges expectations of what architecture might be and, as well,
frequently fills one with a sense of excitement. Gage s work is
further elucidated in the book by the critical musings of eminent
architects and cultural touchstones Peter Eisenman and Robert A.M.
Stern.
By showcasing the intersection between technology, aesthetics, and
function, this book offers a multidisciplinary approach to
cutting-edge performative technology. In a Yale studio led by Lynn
and Gage, students designed a boatbuilding facility using
intelligence gleaned from the competitive sailing industry. These
projects--along with work and essays by Gage and Lynn, Frank Gehry,
Lise Anne Couture, Chris Bangle, and others--demonstrate how shared
materials, tools, and techniques strengthen the fields of
automotive and aeronautic design, boatbuilding and architecture,
ultimately exhibiting the high-tech cross-pollination of form and
material across industries.
This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from
twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia:
Plato * Aristotle * Vitruvius * Alberti * Kant * Burke * Fiedler *
Nietzsche * Wilde * Bergson * Bell * Scott * Benjamin * Bataille *
Sontag * Jameson * Scarry * Nehamas * Zangwill * Freedberg and
Gallese 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.
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