Yung Ho Chang

Born in Beijing in 1956. Received Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. Became a licensed architect in the U.S. in 1989. Has been practicing in China since 1992 and established Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) in 1993. He is the Principal Architect of Atelier FCJZ as well as the Head and Professor of the Peking University Graduate Center of Architecture. He has won a number of prizes, such as First Place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in 1987, a Progressive Architecture Citation Award in 1996, and the 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts. He has published four monographs so far, the latest one in English/French entitled Yung Ho Chang / Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice. He has taught at various architecture schools in the USA, including Ball State, Michigan, U.C. Berkeley, Rice, and Harvard, where he was the Kenzo Tange Chair Professor of 2002, and has lectured extensively, recently at Yale, Princeton, Cornell, SCI-Arc, Penn, Columbia, and Berkeley in the USA, Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University, as well as Tunghai University in Taiwan. In the fall 2005, he will become the Head of Architecture at MIT.

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