Design Achievement Award
College of Design
Established in 1988 to recognize outstanding mid-career creative and professional achievements of alumni in the fields of architecture, art and design, community and regional planning, and landscape architecture
Qun Dang
MAR Architecture ’99
Beijing, China
As a principal of MAD Studio, a Beijing-based architecture and design firm, Qun Dang directs a wide range of projects at different phases and scales. Ongoing projects include the Absolute Towers in Mississauga, Canada, which won an international design competition in 2006 and is scheduled for completion in 2011; Sinosteel International Plaza, Tianjin, China; and the Erdos Museum in Inner Mongolia, China.
Prior to joining MAD in 2006, Dang worked for Perkins Eastman in Pittsburgh and USA Architects in Newark, N.J. She has held teaching positions at Pratt Institute and Iowa State University. Dang’s work has been published in many professional journals, among them Architectural Digest, Architecture and Culture (China), Architecture and Urbanism (Japan), Architektura i Biznes (Poland), Mark, and Space.
Her work also has appeared in numerous exhibitions: most recently, BIG INABA MAD MASS at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Ansan, South Korea; Christian Dior and Chinese Artists at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing; the 11th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in Italy; China Design Now at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; and On Cities at the Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm.
