Yung Ho Chang

Yung Ho Chang was born in Beijing in 1956. He received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984, and became a licensed architect in USA in 1989. He established Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) in 1993, and has been practicing in China since 1992. He is the principal architect of Atelier FCJZ as well as the head and professor of Peking University Graduate Center of Architecture. He has won a number of prizes, such as First Place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in 1987, the 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts. He has published three monographs so far, the latest one in English and French entitled Yung Ho Chang / Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice. He has taught at various architecture schools in USA, including Ball State, Michigan, U.C. Berkeley and Rice, and has lectured extensively, most recently at Yale, Princeton, Cornell, and SCI-Arc in USA, Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, as well as Chinese University of Hong Kong.