American architectural firm in Chicago, of which Jeanne Gang (b Rockford, IL, 1964) is the eponymous principal. Studio Gang is an architectural practice conducted as a collaboration. Two events—the design and construction of the 84-storey Aqua Tower in Chicago in 2004–10, and the 2011 award of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship—transformed her relatively young and small practice from being highly regarded in the professional community into one which received much wider recognition and celebrity. Gang studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (BArch, 1986), at the Swiss Federal University of Technical Studies (ETH) in Zurich as a Rotary Scholar (1989), and at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (MArch, 1993). She worked in the offices of OMA/Rem Koolhaas (1993–5). Gang opened her own office in Chicago in 1997, which by 2014 comprised about fifty staff, including eight principals. She functions as the chief executive of the practice, while Mark Schendel is the managing principal. Gang was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in ...