Current Work: American Museum of Natural History’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation Project Study
Architects and museum leadership discuss the collaborative process of creating the Center.
Studio Gang | David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2025. Image credit: Jason O’Rear, courtesy Studio Gang
The League’s monthly After Hours events, formerly called First Fridays, are informal social gatherings that allow members to visit the offices of leading design practices and see work on the boards.
Studio Gang is a Chicago-based architecture and urban design practice with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Founded by Jeanne Gang in 1997, the firm is recognized for its dynamic vision and research-based design process that connects design with the natural world. With a team of over 100 architects, Studio Gang is currently designing cultural, civic, and educational projects across Europe, North America, and South America. With a robust research, publications, and exhibitions program, Studio Gang was awarded AIA California’s 2025 Firm of the Year.
Completed projects include:
Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation The firm’s addition to the American Museum of Natural History introduces new exhibition, education, collection, and research spaces to the New York City landmark, and a new, fully-accessible entrance with continuous pathways that connect the museum’s ten different buildings.
David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University The university’s first mass timber building that anchors Harvard’s new Enterprise Research Campus, this 55,000 square-foot building provides dedicated event space and meeting amenities.
University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris This building was designed as a vertical campus that centers around a multi-level atrium and features a façade composed of locally sourced Lutetian limestone batons tuned to the varying needs for natural light and privacy.
Current projects include:
Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Located in Garrison, NY, the 475-seat venue with a curved, timber-framed shell and timber columns will be the first purpose-built open-air LEED Platinum theater in the U.S. and the permanent home for the theater company.
Marlboro Agricultural Education Center This project, located on NYCHA’s Marlboro Houses campus, will feature a teaching kitchen and multipurpose room to facilitate cooking and nutrition programs for the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Shirley Chisholm Recreation Center Located in Central Brooklyn’s Nostrand Playground, the recreation center, developed for NYC Parks and named after the Brooklyn-born, first African American woman to serve in the United States Congress, will offer an indoor swimming pool, a gym and walking track, a public plaza, a teaching kitchen, and a green roof.
Architects and museum leadership discuss the collaborative process of creating the Center.
Jeanne Gang, Amanda Williams, and Mabel Wilson explore issues of public space, race, and cultural memory.
Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects presents several projects for the 2011 Franzen lecture.
The Chicago-based office hosts a virtual visit.