Yung Ho Chang In-Class Guest Lecture in Design II Studio class.

Although space, structure, and use have always been among the essential components of architectural practice, the threesome has achieved an unprecedented level of integration in the past decade or so. In our office, programming is as everyday as designing space and structure. Today, this architectural trinity constantly inform each other; as the result, new spaces, new structures, as well as new ways for live events to unfold, can emerge together. I shall discuss this 3-in-1 idea using the projects from our practice as examples.

Educated both in China and in the US, Chang received Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. Since 1992, he has been practicing in China and established Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) with Lijia Lu in 1993. He has won a number of prizes and recognitions, such as First Place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in 1986, a Progressive Architecture Citation Award in 1996, the 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, and the Academy Award in Architecture from American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, 2016 China Architecture Media Award Excellence in Practice Prize, and Honorary Membership of AIA Hong Kong. FCJZ has been recognized as one of the 100+ Best Architecture Firms 2019 by Domus magazine. Jishou Art Museum has won the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2020 Architecture Award and the ArchDaily China Building of the Year 2020 Award. He has published a number of books and monographs, including Exhibition as Construction Experiment in English, World Architecture special issue — The Modernity of Making: Yung Ho Chang in Chinese/English, Yung Ho Chang / Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice in English/French and Yung Ho Chang: Luce chiara, camera oscura in Italian. He participated in many international exhibitions of art and architecture, including six times in the Venice Biennale since 2000. He has taught at various architecture schools in the USA and China; he was a Professor and Founding Head of Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University from 1999 to 2005; he held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard GSD in 2002, the Eliel Saarinen Chair at Michigan in 2004, and between 2005 and 2010, he headed the Architecture Department at MIT. He was also a Pritzker Prize Jury member from 2012 to 2017.

This lecture is open to Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. Room 315F.