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Jeanne Gang was born in Belvidere, Illinois, USA. She is an American architect and MacArthur Fellow. She leads Studio Gang Architects, an architecture and urban design firm based in Chicago and New York. Gang's projects include Aqua, an 82-story mixed-use high-rise. She is known for a design process that foregrounds the relationships between individuals, communities, and environments. She earned a BS degree in Architecture from the University of Illinois in 1986 and a Master of Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1993. Gang’s firm participated in the Venice Biennale in 2004 and 2012 and received the Emporis Award in 2009 for the best new skyscraper of the year. Gang and her Studio were awarded the 2013 National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 2017, she was honored with the Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award.