Fight Club: The Fabric Chang versus Monument D'Hooge

Yung Ho Chang, Professor of Architecture and Head of the Department of Architecture, came to MIT in September 2005 from Peking University where he was Head and Professor of the Graduate Center of Architecture. He received his MArch from the University of California at Berkeley and taught in the US for 11 years before returning to Beijing to establish China's first independent architecture firm, Atelier FCJZ. He has exhibited internationally as an architect as well as artist, including four times in the Venice Biennale, and is widely published, including the monographs Yung Ho Chang/Atelier Feichang Jianzim: A Chinese Practice, and Yung Ho Chang: Luce chiara, camera obscura. He was the curator of the first Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in 2005 and was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2006. His work has received a P/A citation in 1996, a UNESCO Promotion of the Arts award 2000, a Business Week/Architectural Record design award and an Academy Award from American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006.

Alexander D'Hooghe is professor in Architectural Urbanism at MIT where he directs the "platform for a permanent modernity". D"Hooghe recently started a design office called 'ORG' with projects in the Low Countries. His books include Public Form (2005), and Volume no. 9 (2006), a theme issue on the redevelopment of the American suburb. He is preparing the publication of his PhD, 'the Liberal Monument". His work has been published in AA files, Archplus, Block, Perspecta, Places, New Geographies, etc. D'Hooghe worked with Rem Koolhaas, Marcel Smets and Wiel Arets. He holds degrees from Harvard and Leuven. He studied and taught at the Harvard Design School, the University of Leuven, and the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.