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Jeanne Gang
Studio Gang Architects, Founder and Principal | Chicago, United States
About
Architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is Founder and Principal of Studio Gang Architects, a Chicago-based collective of architects, designers, and thinkers whose projects confront pressing contemporary issues. Through her practice, which maintains an ongoing interest in tall buildings, Jeanne seeks to respond to and reframe questions that lie locally (site, culture, people) and resound globally (density, climate, sustainability). She roots her designs in both architectural form and idea-driven content toward achieving a compelling whole, and she often arrives at design solutions through investigations and collaborations across disciplines. Her tall buildings projects include the 82-story Aqua Tower, a Finalist in the CTBUH 2010 Best Tall Building Awards; the Solar Carve Tower, a commercial high-rise that abuts the High Line park in Manhattan; the Hyderabad 02 residential development for
CTBUH Roles
Awards Jury (Chair 2013; Chair 2014)
Annual Conference, Presenter (Chicago 2006; Dubai 2008; New York 2015)
CTBUH Initiatives
21 October 2009
Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group - 3rd Meeting
26 February 2009
Tall Buildings and Sustainability Working Group Update
12 November 2008
Videos
27 October 2015
Three Points of the Residential High-Rise: Designing for Social Connectivity
In this presentation we discuss the terms “exo-spatial design,” “solar carving,” and “bridging” as strategies for creating more socially connective tall buildings. As a typology,...
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Research
08 August 2017
Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang Architects
Having designed the 262-meter Aqua in Chicago, which completed in 2009, Jeanne Gang, principal and founder of Studio Gang Architects, received considerable attention for what...
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Research
08 August 2017
Ten Significant Tall Buildings, and the Significant Women Behind Them
Leading Women in Tall Buildings
Recently, there has been a growing and overdue recognition in the architecture discipline that women are under-represented, not just in terms of leadership positions held,...
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