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- Gang was first widely recognized for the Aqua Tower, [ 3][ 4] the tallest woman-designed building in the world at the time of its completion. Aqua has since been surpassed by the nearby St. Regis Chicago, also of her design.
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Jeanne Gang (born March 19, 1964) is an American architect and the founder and leader of Studio Gang (established in 1997), an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Paris.
“A Chicago architect renowned for her sublime engineering makes buildings that really work for New Yorkers.” Project Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History New York, NY, 2023
- Elisabeth A. Martini—Chicago’s first woman-run firm. Born in 1866, Martini was the first sole woman owner of an architecture firm. She attended the Pratt Institute of Design in New York and moved to Chicago in 1909.
- Sophia Hayden Bennett—First female architecture graduate from MIT. Hayden Bennett grew up in Boston with her grandparents, but was born in Chile in 1868.
- Marion Mahony Griffin—Illinois’ first licensed woman architect. Mahony Griffin was the first woman licensed as an architect in Illinois, and is widely considered one of the most prominent women architects in history.
- BEVERLY LORRAINE GREENE—FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN REGISTERED AS AN ARCHITECT IN ILLINOIS. Beverly Lorraine Green was born in Chicago in 1915. She attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and graduated in 1936 with a degree in architectural engineering—the first African-American woman to earn this degree.
Jan 11, 2024 · Founded in 1974, CWA began with an inaugural meeting called by Gertrude Lempp Kerbis, in which women architects around the city were invited to discuss how to best mutually support one another in the male-dominated architectural field.
Jun 11, 2022 · Scott Simon speaks with Jeanne Gang, the architect behind the St. Regis Chicago. The 101-story skyscraper is the world's tallest structure designed by a woman.
May 13, 2017 · When it opens in 2020, the Vista Tower will top all of her buildings to date and is set to be Gang’s second time designing the world’s tallest building by a female architect. Vista will be a trio of towers, the tallest of which will be 93 stories, with wavy façades and will further cement her reputation as the latest in a long line of ...
