Jeanne Gang

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Jeanne Gang

Jeanne K. Gang (born March 19, 1964 in Illinois ) is an American architect .

Life

She studied at the University of Illinois , where she did her Bachelor of Science in architecture. She then completed her Masters at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD).

After the architectural firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) by Rem Koolhaas had worked, she founded in 1997 in Chicago by Studio Gang Architects her own office for architecture and design, which she heads today along with her husband Mark Schendel.

She was a visiting professor a. a. at the Illinois Institute of Technology , Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Yale School of Architecture, and Princeton University Graduate Design Studio.

Jeanne Gang gained international recognition for the design of the Aqua Tower , a 262 m high residential and hotel tower in Chicago. The Aqua Tower won the Emporis Skyscraper of the Year Award in 2009 and was a finalist in the International High- Rise Award of the German Architecture Museum in 2010 .

In 2011 Jeanne Gang was awarded the MacArthur Fellow , a year later she was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York , and in 2017 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Buildings

  • 2015–2010 Vista Tower Chicago, residential building and hotel.
  • 2010 Columbia College Chicago - Media Production Center.
  • 2010 Lincoln Park Zoo South Pond, Chicago.
  • 2007–2009 Aqua Tower , Chicago.
  • 2008 SOS Children's Villages Lavezzorio Community Center, Chicago.
  • 2003 Bengt Sjostrom Starlight Theater, Rockford, Illinois.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archdaily.com
  2. ↑ http://www.emporis.de/awards
  3. ↑ http://www.dam-online.de/portal/de/Architekturpreise/INTERNATIONALERHOCHHAUSPREIS/0/0/56973/mod1147-details1/1587.aspx
  4. ↑ http://www.macfound.org/fellows/4/
  5. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "G" / Gang, Jeanne, NA 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 23, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  6. ↑ Concrete creepers of capital in: FAZ of January 23, 2018, page 12
personal data
SURNAME Gang, Jeanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gang, Jeanne K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Illinois