Traversing Between Space, Time, and Practice

Traversing Between Space, Time, and Practice

Terence Hawkes once said, “The true nature of things may be said to lie not in things themselves, but in the relationships which we construct and then perceive, between them.” The notion of “traversing between space, time, and practice” has long been embedded in Neri & Hu's architectural practice.

This lecture will examine a series of contemporary issues in various global contexts and will aim to shed light on how Neri & Hu grounds its work while maintaining an intellectual inquiry into adaptive reuse and the role of history, reimagined spatial legibility associated with voyeurism, tectonics, and the use of poché, a search for a connection back to the vernacular, and the role of collective memory and fragments.

In 2004, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu founded Neri & Hu Design and Research Office, an interdisciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China.

Lyndon Neri
Founding Partner of Neri & Hu Design and Research Office

Lyndon Neri co-founded Neri&Hu Design and Research Office with Rossana Hu in 2004, an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China. Neri received his Master of Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design and his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. Alongside his design practice, Neri has been deeply committed to architectural education, and has taught and lectured in numerous universities. He was appointed the John Portman Chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2019 and 2022, the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor in 2022 and Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor Chair in 2018 at the Yale School of Architecture.

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