Yung Ho Chang: How a House in the Sky Landed on Earth? | Inaugural Stanley Saitowitz Alumni Lecture
Yung Ho Chang (MArch 1984), FAIA, presents early work and built projects by his firm Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) to support the argument that paper architecture and social practice are not binary opposites — although there is some distance between them. The paper and the social can be bridged as long as architecture is grounded in design thinking.
About the Speaker
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Yung Ho ChangYung Ho Chang (MArch 1984), FAIA, is the founding partner and principal architect of Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ), established with Lijia Lu in 1993. Educated in China and the U.S., Chang earned his master’s degree from UC Berkeley and has practiced in China since 1992.
He has received numerous honors, including First Place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition (1986), a Progressive Architecture Citation Award (1996), the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts (2000), an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2006), and the China Architecture Media Award Excellence in Practice Prize (2016). An honorary member of AIA Hong Kong, Chang served as a Pritzker Architecture Prize jury member (2012–2017). FCJZ’s design for the Jishou Art Museum won the AIA 2020 Architecture Award and the ArchDaily China Building of the Year 2020 Award.
Chang was founding head of the Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University (1999–2005), held chair professorships at Harvard GSD (2002) and University of Michigan (2004), and headed MIT’s Department of Architecture (2005–2010). His work has been featured six times at the Venice Biennale.
About the Series
The Stanley Saitowitz Alumni Lectures, established in 2026 through a generous gift from Professor Emeritus of Architecture Stanley Saitowitz (MArch 1977), celebrate distinguished alums of UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and bring inspiring leaders in architecture back to Bauer Wurster Hall.
This lecture is part of the Department of Architecture’s fall lecture series.
Bauer Wurster Auditorium is wheelchair accessible. If you require accommodations to fully participate in this event, please contact arch-events@berkeley.edu.