Gloria Chang

Gloria Chang holds a Special Faculty appointment at Carnegie Mellon Architecture and is joint faculty in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) program at CMU.

Gloria has a background in architecture and works cross-disciplinarily in design, fabrication and speculative spatiality. She may commonly be found crafting custom notations or experimenting with materials to examine and explore what is known. Her interests have been rooted in humanitarian response, hybrid and fiber-based materiality, and cross-cultural negotiation and mediation. Her current projects examine spatial patterns and architectural veracity through built and unbuilt forms in fantasy landscape, the recharacterization of systems through capital and gameplay, and the imagining of agricultural futures through applied technology.

Gloria previously taught at Northeastern, Wentworth and Tufts, as well as locally in Rwanda, and has worked with the Program on Negotiation and the Mediation Program at Harvard Law School. Her Peace Corps experience led her to study newness in the disaster field, which was supported by a Joint Center for Housing Studies Fellowship fulfilled at the U.S. Naval War College Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Program. She has worked in design-build, landscape and traditional architectural firms, with her training completed at Pei Cobb Freed and Partners. Gloria received her MArch II and MDes in Risk and Resilience at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and her BArch and BA in Architecture and Visual and Dramatic Arts from Rice University.