Mark Foster Gage is an architect, theorist, and author. Since 2002, his New York City firm, Mark Foster Gage Architects, has combined philosophical and technological speculation with the assets of a fully licensed architectural practice for clients such as Lady Gaga, Google, Intel, Equinox, the Coachella Music Festival, NEOM, and the Biden-Harris presidential campaign. Gage’s work has been exhibited widely in international museums, including MoMA, the Royal Academy of Art in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art in Japan, and the Venice, Beijing, Buenos Aires, and Prague Biennales. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held by the SCI-Arc Gallery in Los Angeles, the Bridge Gallery in Manhattan, and the Roger Williams University Gallery. His work has been featured in most major architectural publications as well as Vogue, Fast Company, Wired, USA Today, The New York Times, and on television on PBS, Fox, and CNN — where he has also been a design contributor. In 2025, his design work for NEOM was officially included in the Encyclopedia Britannica. Gage has published nine books, four authored and five edited, including On the Appearance of the World (U. Minnesota Press), Aesthetics Equals Politics (MIT Press), and Aesthetic Theory (W.W. Norton). His design work and collected writings have been the subject of two monographs: Mark Foster Gage: Architecture in High Resolution (Oro Editions) and Mark Foster Gage: Projects and Provocations (Rizzoli).

Gage’s area of academic expertise is aesthetic philosophy, where he has engaged in both public and published dialogues with some of the world’s leading philosophers, including David Chalmers, Jacques Rancière, and Graham Harman. He has written extensively in publications such as The Journal of Architectural Education, Volume, Perspecta, Architectural Design (AD), The Routledge Handbook of Architectural Design, Plat, Oz, and Log, where he is a frequent contributor and was guest editor of Issue 17, “The Superficial Issue.” Gage is a tenured professor at Yale University, where he has taught for 25 years, served as Assistant Dean and Chair of Admissions, and co-taught advanced design studios with figures including Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn, Leon Krier, and Graham Harman.

Gage has served on the board of directors for the MacDowell Colony, where he was also a fellow, and was a nominee for the Architecture Prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2022, Gage founded the Mark Foster Gage Foundation, a private charitable organization that funds efforts to improve the built environment through supporting innovative architectural research, education, publications, and projects. Recent grants have been made to Log, Building Shelter Global, and Architecture Sans Frontières, The Doreen Adengo Scholarship Fund, as well as funding the exhibition of young architects’ work at recent Chicago and Venice Biennales.