Yung Ho Chang

Yung Ho Chang
Nationality Chinese, American
Awards New York Alliance of Architecture Award for young architects, 1992
Work
Practice Atelier Feichang Jianzhu

Yung Ho Chang (Chinese: 张永和; pinyin: Zhang Yonghe) is a Chinese-American [1] architect and the Head Professor of MIT Architecture.

He studied in Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) before went to US. Then he received his M.Arch. from the University of California, Berkeley and taught in the US for 15 years before returning to Beijing to establish China's first private architecture firm, Atelier FCJZ. He has exhibited internationally as an artist as well as architect and is widely published, including the monograph Yung Ho Chang/Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the city, materiality, and tradition. He often combines his research activities with design commissions.

Before he came to MIT, he had also served as the Kenzo Tange Chair Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design as well as the Eliel Saarinen Chair Professor at University of Michigan.

Awards

Works

In 1997, he published Feichang Architecture, an album of his works.

In 2002, he published The Album for Feichang Jianzhu Atelier 1,2.

He has published many articles in journals including Architecture Today in France, The Art of the Moment in Italy, New Architecture and Space Design in Japan, Architecture in the U.S., Space in Korea, and the World Architecture in Britain.

He facilitated a workshop sesion at the Holcim Forum 2007 for the Holcim Foundation with the title "Informal Urbanism".[2]

References

  1. ^ Napack, Jonathan (14 April 2001). "Yung-ho Chang Tries to Restore an Appreciation for Design : A Chinese Architect Goes Home". The New York Times (New York). http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/14/style/14iht-architect_ed2_.html?pagewanted=1. 
  2. ^ 2nd Day Program - Holcim Forum 2007