Daniel Chang ’99 MSUP ’99 BU delivers the 2025 Doryan Winkelman ’86 MSRED Real Estate Development Lecture, a space for examining how development becomes a site where environmental urgencies, financial instruments, and spatial protocols collide.

As European Lead for Sustainability at Hines, Chang works across scales—translating planetary metrics into asset-level decisions, and reframing sustainability as a design of relations: between buildings and regulation, capital and climate, materiality and governance. His work across Hines’ European portfolio has redefined sustainability strategy not as a checklist, but as a practice of maintenance, adaptation, and performance over time.

Chang’s trajectory—bridging architecture, planning, and real estate—foregrounds the role of spatial intelligence in shaping development as a civic and planetary project.

The Doryan Winkelman ’86 MSRED Lecture Series brings global perspectives on real estate to GSAPP, treating development as a lens on capital, territory, and transformation. Launched in 2018, the series has featured speakers such as Patrick Albrand ’88 MSRED, President of Hines France; World Bank urban specialist Vanessa Velasco; international developer Henry Taic ’86 MSRED; and Kent Yang ’96 MSRED, who leads logistics infrastructure across Southeast Asia.

For Winkelman, a lecture by James Rouse in the early 1980s catalyzed a shift from architecture to real estate, and led him to GSAPP’s first MSRED class. The lecture series he later endowed continues that trajectory: a space where students encounter new models of practice and modes of thinking.

As the MSRED program evolves, the Winkelman Lecture remains a critical point of contact, bringing together students and practitioners to consider how development operates across markets, geographies, and urgent planetary conditions.