Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects, Chicago

“Jeanne Gang is an architect challenging the aesthetic and technical possibilities of the art form in a wide range of structures,” reported the MacArther Foundation when it named her a Fellow in 2011. In this lecture, the Founder and Principal of Studio Gang Architects will map the poster-specialized terrain of professional practice. Her recent work include a new and ecologically sensitive boardwalk at the Lincoln Park Zoo that doubles as an outdoor classroom, a media production center at Columbia College Chicago that Blueprint praised for its “long corridors that use a variety of windows, lighting sources, and perspectives to animate the visual field and expose the building’s programming. Each of reference images from classic films by canonical directors Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, John Ford, Yasujiro Ozu, Jacques Tati,” and the Aqua Tower, an 82-story mixed use skyscraper.

Jeanne Gang’s books Reveal: Studio Gang Architects and Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago’s Waterways will be available by Mobile Libris.

Free and open to the public
arch.columbia.edu