People's Architecture
   Yung Ho Chang              

Chang is currently a Professor of Architecture and Head of the Architecture Department at MIT. Before going to MIT, he was the Head of the Graduate Center of Architecture at Beijing University, and a Professor there. In 1994 he established China's first private architecture firm, Atelier FCJZ with colleagues. Atelier FCJZ projects range from private residences to large and small scale museums, government buildings, urban planning projects, and installations at the Venice Biennale and Centre Pompidou in Paris, as well as experimentation in furniture and graphic design.

Yung Ho has received numerous awards including the 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts. In 2002 and 2003, he held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. 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.