Metropolis — "Jeanne Gang on 'Actionable Idealism' and Architecture that Connects"
Metropolis features an excerpt from Studio Gang’s upcoming monograph with Phaidon, where Jeanne Gang writes about aesthetic and formal affiliations across 25 projects from the last two decades.
‘”Actionable idealism’ is a phrase I have often used to convey the intention of our studio’s practice. At first glance the term might seem to be an oxymoron, if it’s assumed that pursuing ideals is inherently unrealistic. But together these two words embody the dual challenge at the heart of our work: to articulate the big ideas that move us, and to find a way to methodically pursue and accomplish them using design. Above all, we want to live in a world where humans not only coexist, but also actively support one another as part of our planet’s greater network of living things. This calls on us as designers to practice an architecture that fosters interaction and connection rather than developing stand-alone objects.”
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Phaidon — "Watch Jeanne Gang Tell You About Her New Book"
“After all, as we all know, to experiment is to take risks, to open oneself to the vagaries of the unknown and the unpredictable. A bit like cycling through the streets of Chicago perhaps? One thing’s for sure: without experimentation there is no discovery; and Jeanne Gang, who founded this New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Paris-based practice twenty years ago, has discovered a lot.”