Lecture Summary
The presentation will focus on work by Studio Gang that engages different aspects and scales of 'making' and architecture. In addition to discussing the different scales of work that the office is currently producing, it will provide a sense of the how ideas and strategies unfold for these different projects and how process is made integral to design.

Bio
Jeanne Gang leads Studio Gang Architects, a practice that has designed award-winning projects since its inception in 1998. Ms. Gang’s design in the field of architecture is supported through a mode of working that combines practice, teaching and research. As adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology she has taught architecture since 1998. As visiting professor she has taught at the Harvard Design School, Yale College of Architecture and the Princeton School of Architecture.

Ms. Gang leads design through exploration and research early in the design process. Her work has staked out new creative territory in materials, technology and sustainability. Recent projects include the winning entry for the Ford Calumet Environmental Center and the eighty-story, currently under construction residential "Aqua Tower" in downtown Chicago. The work of Studio Gang has received numerous awards and has been published and exhibited widely. Studio Gang’s work has been featured at the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Building Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, the International Venice Biennale. Ms. Gang 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.

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