Wednesday, August 20, 2008
This Beijing-born architect received degrees in environmental design and architecture from U.S. colleges including the University of California, Berkeley. Returning to China in 1993, he established China's first private architectural firm, Atelier FCJZ. He is the recipient of 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
Chang himself describes his architecture as “Duchamp marrying a Chinese painting marrying urbanism producing a child that could be called contemporary Chinese architecture
details of Chang Yung Ho
A rendering of the Small Museum of Contemporary Art (SMOCA) in Quanzhou. The structure is inspired by two interlocking Chinese courtyard houses.
Courtesy Atelier FCJZ
The renderings for SMOCA, a project done for the artist Cai Guo-Qiang, are interesting in themselves, as they combine a typical architectural computer drawing with a traditional Chinese rice-paper painting.
Courtesy Atelier FCJZ
The Xishu Bookstore (pictured) - sitting in an otherwise banal Beijing industrial block- uses a bicycle as its basic structural influence. Xishu was the first project to draw attention to Ho's firm, Atelier FCJZ.
Photos from Metropolis Magazine
Architect website: Atelier FCJZ
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