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Jeanne Gang
Studio Gang Architects
Jeanne Gang is Principal and founder of Studio Gang Architects in Chicago. Prior to founding the firm in 1997, she served as senior designer with BHA in Chicago and with OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam. Her firm is best known for staking out new territory in materials and technology, influenced by Gang’s research as adjunct professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, and visiting professorships at schools of architecture that include Harvard, Yale, and Princeton-- each of which explore bio-mimicry and sustainability. Projects such as the Ford Calumet Environmental Center utilize salvaged steel from the Calumet mills, draped over the center as a mesh “nest” that, unlike glass facades that often kill birds, welcomes them to come closer. Studio Gang’s Aqua Tower, an 80-story Chicago project under construction, undulates and moves as its name implies.
Gang’s design work, and the execution of Studio Gang, has been featured at the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Building Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, and the International Venice Biennale. She was chosen to lecture as one of the Architecture League of New York’s Emerging Voices in spring of 2006 and received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in the same year. Published and exhibited widely, the work of the firm has gained recognition and awards on a national and international level.
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