Chicago Tribune — “From the Great Fire to modernist houses to Jeanne Gang, a rich array of design books for the holidays”
‘Architecture monographs tend to be marketing tools, meant to inflate reputations and impress potential clients. This one largely transcends the self-promoting nature of the genre, offering fresh insights into 20 years of work by Chicago-based Studio Gang and its leader Jeanne Gang. . . . Gang has long been a successful proponent of what she calls “actionable idealism.” As former Harvard design school dean Mohsen Mostafavi writes in a perceptive introduction, “without experimentation there is no discovery.”’
