Studio
Founded and led by Jeanne Gang, Studio Gang is an architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris.
We work as a collective of more than 100 architects, designers, and planners, using design as a medium to connect people to each other, to their communities, and to the environment.
We collaborate closely with our clients, expert consultants, and specialists from a wide range of fields to design and realize innovative projects at multiple scales: architecture, urbanism, interiors, and exhibitions.
Studio Culture
Shop
The heart of the Studio, the Shop is a lively, communal, hands-on space where each of us is encouraged to build, investigate, and explore. Crafted as much by hand as by sophisticated digital tools, our models are tools that push and elevate our designs.
Camp Wandawega
Each summer the Studio heads to Elkhorn, Wisconsin’s Camp Wandawega for camping and camaraderie. A Studio Gang tradition since 2012, our annual retreat features special guests who lead us in activities ranging from foraging to drum-making to star-gazing.
Bike to Work Week
Each year the Studio participates in the Active Transportation Alliance’s Bike to Work Week Challenge, winning first place in our category since 2011.
Annual Canoeing Trip
Our annual canoeing trip is another highly anticipated studio event, bringing Studio members together to canoe the Wisconsin River and camp overnight on the sand bar.
We believe unequivocally that Black lives matter and stand with those bravely taking action against systemic racial injustice. We believe that as architects, we have a critical role to play in creating places and processes that foster equity and justice and that empower historically marginalized communities.
In solidarity with other designers working to envision and realize a just future, we have signed onto the Design Justice Demands of the Design As Protest (DAP) Collective, an anti-racist, non-hierarchical, action-based collective of BIPOC designers dedicated to advancing design justice in the built environment. We encourage you to sign on, as well, and to make use of their Anti-Racist Design Justice Index and other resources and tools for guiding concrete action on these issues.
As architects dedicated to healthy and livable communities, and guided by scientific consensus and reason, we combat climate change through design and advocacy. We invite you to join us as a signatory of Architects Advocate and a signatory and Working Group member of US Architects Declare, a network of architects organizing for radical change in the building sector around climate, social justice, and biodiversity.
We are also a signatory of the 1.5oC COP26 Communiqué issued by Architecture 2030, which calls on sovereign government leaders participating in the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to match our commitment to meet the Paris Agreement's 1.5oC carbon budget.