What ideas are currently energizing 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, the practice, and discourse of architecture?
For this book, Mark Foster Gage has selected the most noteworthy and fascinating conversations from his multi-year project of documenting the ideas of the next generation of designers who promise to revolutionize the very nature of architecture. This remarkable collection of casual, informative, and personal interviews engages fifteen architects as they reveal what made them who they are, what propels their architectural work forward, and what they anticipate the future might bring.
As the founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects, Yale professor, and respected insider of the international architectural scene, Mark Foster Gage has spent his professional life among some of the most influential architects of the last half-century. Through co-teaching Yale design studios with Frank Gehry, Greg Lynn, Leon Krier, Demetri Porphyrios, and Graham Harman, and alongside Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid and Robert A.M. Stern his experience uniquely bridges past, present and future generations of architectural practice. With this book, he focuses on an emerging generation of practitioners- approaching his subjects with a characteristic mix of insight, wit, and humor in a book that is consistently entertaining and informative as the architects open up in unexpected ways about their beliefs, work, and thoughts on the future.
ISBN
9781957183183Title
Speaking of ArchitectureAuthor
Mark Foster GagePublisher
ORO EditionsPublication year
2023Binding
SoftcoverLanguage
English
