JEANNE GANG THE ARCHITECT WHO MADE BUILDINGS BREATHE When Architecture Became Organism By  Arindam Bose ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ ⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡⬡ Introduction: When Architecture Stopped Being Object and Became Organism Some architects build monuments. Some architects build shelter. Jeanne Gang builds relationships. Not between people—though her buildings do that too. Between buildings and wind. Between towers and birds. Between concrete and rivers. Between glass and migration patterns. Between humans and the ecological systems they've forgotten how to see. In a profession that worships the singular gesture—the iconic form, the starchitect's signature, the building that screams "look at me"—Gang did something quieter and more radical: She made architecture disappear into its context. Not through minimalism. Not through camouflage. But through negotiation. Her buildings don't sit on sites. They breathe with them. They filter wind, catch w...