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Blade Runner meets The Wizard of Oz in the New York architect's fantastical work.

By Aaron Betsky December 13, 2019

"East River Valley" rendering (2018)…

Get ready for fake architecture. Now that architects have the same tools as moviemakers and meme-posters to make anything look like anything else, buildings can seem more real in renderings than they do when they are actually built. At the same time, some structures are taking on shapes so weird and fantastical—such as the impossibly thin towers of Manhattan or the convoluted, gravity-defying curves of some museum buildings—that you are left to wonder whether they are, in fact, real. Pretty soon, we will be living in a mix of virtual and physical reality, if we aren’t already. How do we make sense of it? By telling good stories. And if the future of architecture is fairy tales, as some experts insist, then perhaps nobody tells

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Mark Foster Gage is an architect, writer, and theorist.

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Mark Foster Gage (born Novem) is an American designer, theoretician, theorist and founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York City.

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Throughout his career, Gage ed to almost 100 countries, immersing himself in diverse cultures and ways of life.

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