Jeanne Gang

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jeanne Gang
Occupation	Architect
Date Of Birth	Mar 19, 1964(1964-03-19)
Age	60
Birthplace	Belvidere
Country	United States
Horoscope	Pisces

Jeanne Gang Biography

Jeanne Gang is one of the most popular and richest Architect who was born on March 19, 1964 in Belvidere, United States. Jeanne Gang (born March 19, 1964) is an American architect and the founder and leader of Studio Gang (established in 1997), an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Internationally renowned for the Aqua Tower, Gang has recently completed projects such as Solstice on the Park, Writers Theatre, the University of Chicago Campus North Residential and Dining Commons, City Hyde Park, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College, and two boathouses on the Chicago River, the WMS Boathouse at Clark Park and Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571. Her Aqua tower in Chicago is currently the tallest woman-designed building in the world, a distinction soon to be passed to the new Vista Tower, also of her design, nearby.

Gang’s built work in the Chicago area includes the University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons, Writers Theatre, City Hyde Park, the WMS Boathouse at Clark Park and Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571 on the Chicago River, Northerly Island, Aqua Tower, the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, the Columbia College Chicago Media Production Center, and the SOS Children’s Villages Lavezzorio Community Center, among others. In 2014, Gang and her Studio completed the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College. Her current projects under construction include 40 Tenth Avenue in New York’s Meatpacking District and Rescue Company 2 for the New York City Fire Department, as well as Vista Tower and Solstice on the Park in Chicago. Her Studio is currently engaged in projects such as the Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History; a new United States Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil; high-rise towers in Toronto and Amsterdam; a unified campus for California College of the Arts in San Francisco; the expansion and renovation of the Arkansas Arts Center; and the Center for Arts & Innovation at Spelman College.

Currently a Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Gang has also served as the John Portman Design Critic in Architecture and a visiting critic at the GSD (2017 and 2011), a visiting studio critic at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (2015), the Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University School of Architecture (2014), a visiting lecturer at the Princeton University School of Architecture (2007), the Louis I. Kahn Junior Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Architecture (2005), and a studio critic at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her studios have explored how design can help create beneficial connections between people and their environments, with a focus on cities, ecologies materials and other technologies of the 21st century.

In 2018, Gang unveiled designs for the Arkansas Art Center, a $70 million art museum and nature conservatory in Little Rock, Arkansas. The project has been described as a “museum in a forest.”

Gang has authored two books—Reveal (2011), the first publication on the Studio’s work and process, and Reverse Effect: Renewing Chicago’s Waterways (2011), which imagines a greener future for the Chicago River. She co-edited the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition catalogue Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects in 2012.

Jeanne Gang Net Worth

Jeanne Gang is one of the richest Architect from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jeanne Gang 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gang is recognized as one of the most prominent architects of her generation and is known for an interdisciplinary design process that foregrounds relationships between individuals, communities, and environments. Raised in Belvidere, IL, Gang earned her Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois in 1986 and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1993. In 1989, she was an International Rotary Fellow and studied at the ETH Swiss Federal University of Technical Studies in Zurich, Switzerland. She also studied at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles -ENSAV-, in Versailles, France. Prior to establishing Studio Gang in 1997, she worked with OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam.

A 2011 MacArthur Fellow, Gang and her Studio were awarded the 2013 National Design Award for Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Gang was named the 2016 Woman Architect of the Year by the Architectural Review. In 2017, she was honored with the Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award (Philadelphia Center for Architecture) and Fellowship in the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018, she was elected an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), a lifetime honor.

Gang lectures frequently throughout the world. In 2016, she presented at the TEDWomen conference.

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Who is Jeanne Gang Dating?

According to our records, Jeanne Gang married to Mark Schendel. As of December 1, 2023, Jeanne Gang’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Jeanne Ranked on the list of most popular Architect. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jeanne Gang celebrates birthday on March 19 of every year.

Does Jeanne Gang have kids?

The couple have no children (Schendel has a son from a previous marriage), and they spend most of their time working. “It’s exhilarating work,” Schendel says. And demanding: Gang often visits three cities in a week.

Where did Jeanne Gang grow up?

Growing up in Belvidere, Illinois , a city 70 miles northwest of Chicago, Jeanne Gang didn’t have to go far to glimpse her future.

What style of architecture is Jeanne Gang?

If Gang has a signature, it’s not stylistic but philosophical: Her architecture is an ongoing negotiation with nature. A dark-glass office building in Chelsea, which she has called Solar Carve, twists and dodges to let sunlight hit the High Line.

Why was the Aqua tower built?

The design for Aqua uses architecture to capture and reinterpret the human and outdoor connections that occur more naturally when living closer to the ground. Its distinctive form is achieved by varying the floor slabs across the height the tower, based on criteria such as views, sunlight, and use.

What is the curvy building in Chicago?

Chicago’s nearly complete Vista Tower comes wrapped in superlatives — the city’s third-tallest building and the world’s tallest building designed by a woman — as well as seemingly curving, multicolored glass.