Yung Ho Chang Explained

Yung Ho Chang
Nationality:Chinese, American
Practice:Atelier Feichang Jianzhu
Awards:New York Alliance of Architecture Award for young architects, 1992

Yung Ho Chang is a Chinese-American[1] architect and Professor of MIT Architecture. He was formerly the head of the Department of Architecture at MIT.

He studied at the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) before moving to the US. Then he received his M.Arch. from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught in the US for 15 years before returning to Beijing to establish China's first private architecture firm, Atelier FCJZ. He has exhibited internationally as an artist as well as architect and is widely published, including the monograph Yung Ho Chang/Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the city, materiality and tradition. He often combines his research activities with design commissions.

Before MIT, he was the Kenzo Tange Chair Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design[2] and the Eliel Saarinen Chair Professor at University of Michigan.

Chang was a jury member of the Pritzker Prize from 2011 to 2017.[3]

Publications

In 1997, he published Feichang Architecture, an album of his works.In 2002, he published The Album for Feichang Jianzhu Atelier 1,2.

He has published many articles in journals including Architecture Today in France, The Art of the Moment in Italy, New Architecture and Space Design in Japan, Architecture in the U.S., Space in Korea and the World Architecture in Britain.

He facilitated a workshop session at the Holcim Forum 2007 for the Holcim Foundation with the title "Informal Urbanism".[4]

Awards

References

  1. News: Napack. Jonathan. Yung-ho Chang Tries to Restore an Appreciation for Design : A Chinese Architect Goes Home. The New York Times. New York. 14 April 2001. subscription.
  2. Book: Li. Ingrid. Zhang Xin: On the Return to China. 2006. Jorge Pinto Books Inc.. 9780977472413. 21 November 2017. Google Books.
  3. Web site: The Pritzker Architecture Prize Past Jury Members. The Hyatt Foundation. 26 September 2022.
  4. http://www.holcimfoundation.org/T185/2ndForum2007brUrbanTransFormation.htm 2nd Day Program - Holcim Forum 2007

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