Jeanne Gang family is complete with her husband and business partner Mark Schendel. Jeanne also has a stepson from Mark’s previous relationship.
The American architect Jeanne Gang is among the handful of prominent females in the industry in the United States of America. She has it in her blood as her father, James was a renowned civil engineer who served as a highway superintendent in Boone County.
Gang was a bright child from her early days and loved her family vacations where their father took them around the United States showing bridges and buildings that were engineering marvels. She now has created marvels of her own, in terms of architecture of course.
The one building that put her on the national radar is Aqua Tower, a massive 82-story skyscraper that stands in Downtown Chicago. The building was completed in 2010 which drew multiple other projects and awards towards Jeanne and her company Studio Gang.
Jeanne and her studio are recipients of multiple accolades including the World’s Most Influential Architect, Marcus Prize for Architecture, Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award, and Chicagoans of the Year among dozens of others. Other architects featured by our team are David Strathairn and Wilson Bethel’s wife Liesl Martinez among others.
While Jeanne is super-successful in her professional life, she is equally successful in her family and personal life.
Mark Schendel Is Managing Principal At Studio Gang
Jeanne Gang Family is complete with her husband Mark Schendel. Mark works as a Managing Principal At Studio Gang.
Jeanne Gang husband Mark Schendel is responsible for overseeing 50+ staff at Studio Gang. Mark works from his table located at the middle of the studio.
He is also responsible for keeping the workflow on time and under budget. He also supervises every project undertaken by Studio Gang to ensure the quality of the project and that staff have all the necessary support to complete the task.
Furthermore, Mark also oversees construction documentation, coordination between departments and external contractors, and administration on a daily basis. He has worked on well-known projects including Aqua Tower, Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons, City Hyde Park, and Vista Towers, among others.
Schendel holds two bachelor’s degrees, he graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture Science from Florida A & M University and later with Bachelor in Pure Mathematics from Florida State University.
Moreover, Mark earned his Master of Architecture degree from Ohio State University and later joined Harvard Graduate School of Design to earn his Master of Architecture II.
Mark also has exceptional communication and collaboration skills that are clearly visible to his huge team, clients, and builders. His communication and collaboration skills have helped him put Studio Gang on the radar in the architecture industry of not just Illinois but the entire United States of America.
Jeanne And Mark Are Married Since 1998
Jeanne Gang married Mark Schendel in 1998 after dating for five years. Jeanne and Mark met in 1993 while working at OMA.
Gang and Schendel crossed paths for the first time when both of them were working for OMA in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Jeanne and Mark were working for Rem Koolhaas when Gang revealed she did not have any intentions of being bossed around by men and working on their under.
While she found her way around by establishing her firm and working as her boss, her intimacy with Mark gave birth to a budding romance that would last for decades to come.
According to the New Yorker, Gang decided to settle in Chicago, and Mark followed his wife to the United States from the Netherlands. They both collaborated and established Studio Gang, Jeanne took the designing part while Mark held the helm of the administrative section of the studio.
The pair now work together and live together, they call a century-old apartment with thick walls and huge windows overlooking at Michigan Avenue their home. They have an Italian-styled kitchen where Mark often prepares mouthwatering delicacies for the couple to enjoy.
Their home has been renovated and modified, as expected from a pair of architects living there. The doors of their home have been heightened to over 9 feet tall and the widows enlarged providing natural light. They also have a bookshelf integrated into their stairways, where their cat is the king.
However, neither of them has social media accounts. They keep their personal life to themself while their professional life makes headlines in the media every now and then for their incredible achievement in the industry.
Jeanne Gang Has One Stepson
Jeanne Gang children is her stepson from the previous marriage of her husband Mark. Jeanne and Mark do not share any kids together.
Gang and Schendel have a small and sweet family, consisting of just the two of them. While Mark does have a son from his previous marriage making Jeanne a stepmother to Mark’s son, it is unclear if the boy lives with the couple or not.
Furthermore, Jeanne or Mark have not revealed anything about their son on the internet yet. They have not revealed his name or even his age, but if the boy is from Mark’s previous marriage he might be born in the early 1990s or late 1980s, making him an adult as of 2023.
Although she might not have any children of her own, Jeanne has worked for creating safe and suitable housing for kids in collaboration with SOS Village. Her firm designed and developed SOS Children’s Villages Lavezzorio Community Center which was completed in 2008.