March Meeting Announcement

The March meeting of UASC will be held on Wednesday March 28th, with refreshments starting at 6:30, business at 7:00, and our featured speaker, Architect Jeanne Gang, at 8:00, on the 8th floor of the Helix Building, 310 S. Racine.

UASC members will recognize Ms. Gang's work primarily as the architect behind the Chicago Park Districts plans for potentially expanding Northerly Island to the east, forming a small enclosed lagoon for shore diving surrounded by a series of small islands connected by bridged walkways.  Surveying the underwater conditions there was a project that several UASC members helped ICSSD with this past summer.  Another of her noted local accomplishments is the Aqua Tower, a somewhat "wavy" building along the Chicago River at Wacker Drive.  In addition, she is very active in revitalizing the Chicago River area, having written several books on the subject.

Jeanne's official bio follows, and you can learn even more about our March speaker and her work at http://www.studiogang.net/

Bio

Visionary architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founder and principal of Studio Gang Architects, a Chicago-based collective of architects, designers, and thinkers whose projects confront pressing contemporary issues. Driven by curiosity, intelligence, and radical creativity, Jeanne has produced some of today’s most innovative and award-winning architecture. The transformative potential of her work is exemplified by such recent projects as the Aqua Tower (named the 2009 Emporis Skyscraper of the Year), Northerly Island framework plan, Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, and Columbia Colleg

e Chicago’s Media Production Center.

Jeanne seeks to answer questions that lie locally (site, culture, people) and resound globally (density, climate, sustainability) through her architecture. Her designs are rooted in both architectural form and idea-driven content to make a compelling whole, and she often arrives at design solutions through investi

Jeanne’s work has been honored and exhibited widely, most notably at the International Venice Biennale, MoMA, the National Building Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. A distinguished graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, she has taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and IIT, where her studios have focused on cities, ecologies, materials, and technologies. Reveal, her first volume on Studio Gang’s work and working process, was released in 2011 from Princeton Architectural Press.gations and collaborations across disciplines.