Yung Ho Chang [Recent Lecture]
Thu Oct-01 @ 7pm (online):
BUILDING:
YUNG HO CHANG (Atelier FCJZ)_
Yung Ho Chang is a founding principal of Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ), established in 1993 in Beijing. Since its inception FCJZ has pursued a multi-disciplinary practice, emphasizing the craft of design, whether through research or realized projects from large-scale urban design to decorative arts, creating work “inspired by distinctly Chinese problems and concepts” (Philip Tinari).
Current and recent projects include the Forbidden City College Reconstruction, Chongqing; Jishou Art Museum, Jishou; Shede Cultural Center, Tuopai Town, Sichuan Province; Concrete Vessel, Beijing; Novartis Shanghai Park Experimental Building, Shanghai; Vertical Glass House, Beijing; Audi House, Shanghai; the 1966-1976 Major Events Pavilion in Anren, China; and the Shanghai Corporate Pavilion for the World Expo.Among its ongoing projects are: China Academy of Art Liangzhu Campus, Wu Dayu Art Museum, and the Yaying Fashion and Art Center.
A professor of the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University, and a professor and former head of the Architecture Department at MIT, Chang, who was educated in China and the United States, was also a professor and founding head of the Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University. He held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard in 2002, the Eliel Saarinen Chair at Michigan in 2004, and the Howard Friedman Chair at Berkeley in 2016. He was granted membership by AIA Hong Kong in 2009, and was a Pritzker Prize Jury member from 2011 to 2017.
Chang has received numerous awards, including first place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in 1987, the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts in 2000, the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, the 2016 China Architectural Media Award Achievement in Practice Prize, and he won the design competition for Fondation de Chine a la Cite Universitaire de Paris with CAAU. Chang has also published several books and monographs and participated in many international exhibitions of art and architecture, including six times in the Venice Biennale.