Search Results - Zhang, Yonghe 1956-

Yung Ho Chang

Yung Ho Chang () is a Chinese-American architect and Professor of MIT Architecture. He was formerly the head of the Department of Architecture at MIT.

He studied at the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University) before moving to the 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 MIT, he was the Kenzo Tange Chair Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Eliel Saarinen Chair Professor at University of Michigan.

Chang was a jury member of the Pritzker Prize from 2011 to 2017. Provided by Wikipedia