Distinguished Chicago-based architect Jeanne Gang presents a lecture at Melbourne School of Design on Tuesday 7 October 2014. The lecture will explore the adaptive re-use of waning industrial era spaces and how architects might initiate their transformation.

Jeanne Gang, founding principal of Studio Gang Architects.

Image: Sally Ryan

Educated at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Jeanne Gang is the founding principal of Studio Gang Architects. Her work frequently explores architecture as a medium of active response to issue that impact the human experience. The projects often reflect issues of the specific site and culture but also global issues of urbanisation, climate and sustainability. She has also taught of a number of Ivy-league schools including Harvard, Yale, Princeton as well as Rice University and Illinois Institute of Technology.

The studio’s award-winning projects include Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo and the 82-storey Aqua Tower, both in Chicago, Solar Carve Tower abutting The High Line in New York, and the proposed Northerly Island – an ecological park on the site of a former airfield on the Chicago lakefront.

Gang has on numerous awards including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2011, National Design Award from Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in 2013 and was named Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2009. Her work has been exhibited at Venice Biennale, Museum of Modern Art as well as a solo exhibition Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects which attracted record attendance at Art Institute of Chicago. Selected works from the exhibition on display at Wunderlich@757 1-12 October.

Studio Gang Architects were visited by the 2014 Dulux Study Tour and this lecture is sponsored by Dulux.

Carrillo Gantner Theatre
Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne
7pm