Chang was born in Beijing in 1956, received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984, and became a licensed architect in the U.S. in 1989. He has been practicing in China since 1992 and established Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ) in 1993. Currently, he is the Principal Architect of Atelier FCJZ as well as Head of Architecture Department at MIT. He has won a number of prizes, such as First Place in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition in 1987, a Progressive Architecture Citation Award in 1996, and the 2000 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts. This year, he received an Academy Award in Architecture from American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has published seven books and monographs so far, the latest one in English/French entitled Yung Ho Chang / Atelier Feichang Jianzhu: A Chinese Practice. He has taught at various architecture schools in the USA, including Ball State, Michigan, U.C. Berkeley, Rice, and Harvard, In 1999, he founded the Peking University Graduate Center of Architecture and still remains as its Head.
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