FF – Distance Edition: Studio Gang

The League’s monthly First Friday series has shifted to a new online format and other days of the week. Each event explores design practices in New York City and beyond that operate in multiple roles—coupling architecture with initiatives including design advocacy, fabrication research, and community engagement.

Studio Gang is an architecture and urban design practice founded by Jeanne Gang headquartered in Chicago. With offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris, the collective of over 100 architects, designers, and planners strives to create “places that connect people to each other, to their communities, and to the environment.” This mission, which they refer to as “actionable idealism,” aims to bring measurable positive change to the places where they work—whether through built work or through advocacy and self-initiated research projects.

The presentation is followed by a Q+A moderated by architect and educator Jonathan Solomon. Solomon has directed design schools in the US and abroad, was a founding editor of 306090 Books, and served as a curator of the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. He currently is a partner in the Chicago-based firm Preservation Futures, an editor of the journal Forty-Five, and a director of the gallery Space p11.