The American architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founding principal of Studio Gang, an architecture, interiors, and urbanism practice in Chicago and New York. Internationally recognized for her innovative use of materials and environmentally sensitive approach, Gang explores the role of design in revitalizing cities. Addressing global issues through local engagement, Gang works with communities and organizations to make more livable spaces that improve our built and natural environments.

Employing this approach, Gang has produced some of today’s most compelling work, including the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, the WMS Boathouse at Clark Park, the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, and Aqua Tower. Gang is currently engaged in major projects throughout North America, including the expansion of the American Museum of Natural History in New York; high-rise towers in San Francisco, New York, and Chicago; and a strategic plan for the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Her Studio’s installation Polis Station, a proposal for re-orienting police stations toward their communities, was featured in the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, October 2015–January 2016.

Gang will speak with the architectural historian Maristella Casciato, Senior Curator for Architecture at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Prior to her appointment at the Getty, Casciato was professor at the University of Bologna and associate director for research at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal. She is currently working on a monograph dedicated to Pierre Jeanneret.

Jeanne Gang is the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

The event will be held in English.