Spouse Mark Schendel (m. 1998) Role Architect | Name Jeanne Gang Occupation Architect Awards MacArthur Fellowship | |
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Alma mater University of Illinois (B.S., 1986), ETH: Swiss Federal University of Technical Studies, Zurich Urban Design Studies (Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, 1989), Harvard University (M.Arch., 1993) Buildings Aqua, SOS Lavezzorio Community Center, Starlight Theatre (Rock Valley College), Media Production Center (Columbia College Chicago), Marble Curtain (National Building Museum). Books Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago's Waterways Structures Aqua, National Building Museum Education Harvard Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign | ||
Building communities through architecture jeanne gang at tedxmidwest
Jeanne Gang (born March 19, 1964) is an American architect and MacArthur Fellow. She leads Studio Gang Architects, an architecture and urban design firm based in Chicago and New York. Gang's projects include Aqua Tower, an 82-story mixed-use skyscraper; the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College; the WMS Boathouse at Clark Park and Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571 on the Chicago River; and the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo.
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- Building communities through architecture jeanne gang at tedxmidwest
- Architect jeanne gang introduces the new residence hall
- Biography
- Work
- Projects
- Awards and honors
- References
Architect jeanne gang introduces the new residence hall
Biography
Gang is recognized as one of the most prominent architects of her generation. She is known for a design process that foregrounds the relationships between individuals, communities, and environments. Raised in Belvidere, IL, Gang earned her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois in 1986 and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1993. In 1989, she was an International Rotary Fellow and studied at the ETH Swiss Federal University of Technical Studies in Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to establishing Studio Gang Architects in 1997, she worked with OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam.
A 2011 MacArthur Fellow, Gang and her Studio were awarded the 2013 National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Gang was named the 2016 Woman Architect of the Year by the Architectural Review. In 2017, she was honored with the Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award (Philadelphia Center for Architecture) and Fellowship in the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Gang has taught architecture as the John Portman Design Critic and a visiting critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2017 and 2011), a visiting studio critic at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (2015), the Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University School of Architecture (2014), a visiting lecturer at the Princeton University School of Architecture (2007), the Louis I. Kahn Junior Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Architecture (2005), and a studio critic at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her studios have explored how design can help create beneficial connections between people and their environments in the twenty-first century.
Gang lectures frequently throughout the world. In 2016, she presented at the TEDWomen conference.
Work
Gang's built work in the Chicago area includes the University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons, Writers Theatre, City Hyde Park, the WMS Boathouse at Clark Park and Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571 on the Chicago River, Northerly Island, Aqua Tower, the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, the Columbia College Chicago Media Production Center, and the SOS Children's Villages Lavezzorio Community Center, among others. In 2014, Gang and her Studio completed the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College. Current projects under construction include 40 Tenth Avenue in New York's Meatpacking District and Rescue Company 2 for the New York City Fire Department, as well as Vista Tower and Solstice on the Park in Chicago. Her Studio is currently engaged in projects such as the Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History; a new United States Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil; high-rise towers in Toronto and Amsterdam; a unified campus for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco; the expansion and renovation of the Arkansas Arts Center; and the Center for Arts & Innovation at Spelman College.
Studio Gang's work has been honored, published, and exhibited widely. In 2017, the Studio was selected to design the National Building Museum's Summer Block Party installation; in 2012, the Studio was featured in the solo exhibition Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects at the Art Institute of Chicago; and in 2011, the Studio participated in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream. The Studio's work has also been shown at the Venice Biennale, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the National Building Museum, and Design Miami.
Gang has authored two books—Reveal (2011), the first publication on the Studio's work and process, and Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago's Waterways (2011), which imagines a greener future for the Chicago River. She co-edited the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition catalogue Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects in 2012.