Jeanne Gang

American Architect Jeanne Gang, FAIA, is Professor in Practice of Architecture at the GSD and the founding partner of Studio Gang, an international architecture and urban design practice based in Chicago with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Drawing insight from ecological systems, Jeanne is recognized for a research-based design process that foregrounds the relationships between individuals, communities, and environments. Her analytical and creative approach has produced projects across scales and typologies. Recent major works range from museum additions such as the recent Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock and the Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, to civic and educational spaces such as the University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris; Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee; and the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Upcoming projects include the new United States Embassy in Brasília, Brazil; the expansion of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas; and the Sustainability Commons for Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Intertwined with their built work, Jeanne and Studio Gang also develop research and related projects such as publications and exhibitions that push design’s ability to create public awareness and give rise to change—a practice they call “actionable idealism.” She is the author of four books on architecture, the most recent of which, The Art of Architectural Grafting, was published in 2024 in English and French editions. Her work has been honored and exhibited widely, and is in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Canadian Centre for Architecture, MAXXI, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and Art Institute of Chicago.

A MacArthur Fellow, Jeanne is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Officer in the National Order of the Legion of Honor (l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur), and a Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters (l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres). She is the recipient of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the Charlotte Perriand Award, the Marcus Prize, and the Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award, among other honors.

An alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (M.Arch with Distinction), Jeanne also studied urban design at ETH Zürich as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. She has taught architecture at the GSD since 2011 through studios exploring the multi-faceted potential of materiality and the cultural and environmental aspects of buildings’ reuse. She served as the John Portman Design Critic in Architecture in 2017.