Yung Ho Chang, FAIA

Founding Partner and Principal Architect, Atelier Feichang Jianzhu

Professor and Former Head, Architecture Department, MIT

Professor, Tongji University

In China, Atelier Feichang Jianzhu’s practice has witnessed a rapidly changing reality. In his talk, Mr. Chang will be highlighting the reality of the moment in four aspects: lifestyle, material, urbanity, and space-time experience and how they have impacted the studio’s work. These observations will be discussed with the support of recently completed and on-going projects of Atelier FCJZ.

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, 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, and 2016 China Architecture Media Award Practical Achievement Prize.2019, FCJZ has been recognized as one of the 100+ Best Architecture Firms 2019 by Domus magazine.  He has published a number of books and monographs, including Exhibition as Construction Experiment in English, World Architecturespecial 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 and the Eliel Saarinen Chair at Michigan in 2004. From 2011 to 2017, he was a Pritzker Prize Jury member.

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Non-Members: 50RMB