As part of the New French Architecture Series, a companion series to the Symposium on the Arts of France, the Alliance Française de Chicago will host a lecture by Jeanne Gang on the University of Chicago Center in Paris project.
Details
May 26, 2021
6:00 p.m. CT
Zoom Virtual Broadcast (in English)
Jeanne is a Professor in Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, her alma mater, where her teaching and research focus on the cultural and environmental aspects of buildings’ reuse. She is the author of three books on architecture, and a monograph of the Studio’s work, Studio Gang: Architecture, will be published this spring. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Modern Art, the International Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
A MacArthur Fellow, 2017 William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Jeanne has been honored with the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture and was named one of 2019’s most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. Further accolades include Architectural Review’s Architect of the Year, the Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award, and the Marcus Prize for Architecture.
“L’université de Chicago, la Ville de Paris, la mairie du 13e arrondissement et la Semapa ont choisi la proposition d’Icade, accompagné par le duo d’architectes franco-américain Studio Gang et Parc Architectes, pour la réalisation d’un projet mixte de près de 9 500 m². Olivier Wigniolle, directeur général d’Icade, et Jeanne Gang, architecte et fondatrice de Studio Gang, reviennent pour in interiors sur ce projet baptisé « le centre parisien de l’université de Chicago ».”
Jeanne Gang profiled in the Ideas section of French newspaper Le Monde.