AD Interviews: Mark Foster Gage / Gage Clemenaceau
Gage / Clemenceau Architects is a NY based architectural firm that deals with a wide scale of projects, from product design, commercial & residential projects to exhibition design. Also runners for the Young Architects Program @ PS1 in 2007, Gage Clemenceau´s work is motivated by the premise that architecture transcends the practice of mere building- in favor of a new and vibrant alliance between progressive technologies, new materials, context and program.
We interviewed Mark Foster Gage (G/C partner, assistant professor at Yale), and discussed about education, media, networking role of architects in contemporary society, among other topics regarding the current state of architectural practice in our second issue of AD Interviews, in a very interesting and fluid talk.
More interviews each Sunday. Please leave your feedback at the comments for future issues.
Pictures of the Gage Clemenceau Studio after the break.
Amazing that a studio that produces such utterly vapid (and ugly) work as Gage Clemenceau gets to have its principal teach at Yale and get all this exposure.
I value the effort to try to “innovate” through the use of new technology/softwares programs, but I think there is a contradiction in the definition of architecture, he clearly states that is not sculpture, but when I look at his work I felt shock because it is really sculptural…unlesssssss you could say this is the new art nouveau of the 21th century? maybe I jumped way too far on that, but going back to his definition of architecture I just think there is a contradiction. He is in search for beautiful things rather than targeting the problem. Maybe he did too much classical architecture back in his time that lead him to do what he does, which again I really value and respect, but what he states is not the same as what he practices.
Thanks for the material, is good to know what other people does.
…and just to make clear when I said “back in his time” I meant that when he was studying architecture he spent a lot of time studying classical architecture, check from 10:15