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Professor, Architectural Design at the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Principal of Atelier FCJZ, Beijing.
He founded the Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University. After receiving his MArch from the University of California at Berkeley and teaching in the U.S. for 15 years, he returned to Beijing and established China's first private architecture firm, Atelier FCJZ. In 2000 he received the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, and in 2002-03 he held the Kenzo Tange Chair at Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He has exhibited internationally as an artist as well as an architect and has published the monograph Yung Ho Chang/Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the city, materiality, and tradition.