Founding Partner, Neri&Hu and Design Republic
Rossana Hu is a Founding Partner of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, an inter-disciplinary international architectural design practice based in Shanghai. Neri&Hu are the Winner of Madrid Design Awards 2020, the Overall Winner of The Blueprint Award for Design 2019 and The PLAN Award 2018, they are named EDIDA Designers of the Year 2017 and Interior Designers of the Year of Iconic Awards 2017 by German Design Council, Maison&Objet Asia Designers of The Year 2015 and Wallpaper* Designers of The Year 2014. In 2013, Ms. Hu was inducted into the U.S. Interior Design Hall of Fame. The practice was selected as the 2011 INSIDE Festival Overall Winner, won AR Awards for Emerging Architecture 2010 by Architectural Review (UK) and was one of the Design Vanguards in 2009 by Architectural Record (US).
Rossana Hu has been actively involved in teaching and research, together with partner Lyndon Neri they started teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Design the fall semester of 2019 as John C. Portman Design Critic in Architecture, and taught at Yale School of Architecture as the Fall 2018 Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor.
Rossana Hu has been invited to speak, exhibit and judge for many prestigious events and programs all over the world. Rossana Hu is also a co-founder of Design Republic, a modern design platform incorporating retail concept, design/cultural exhibitions and educational events.
Rossana Hu received her Master of Architecture and Urban Planning at Princeton University and her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at UC Berkeley.
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Founded in 2004 by partners Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office is an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China. Neri&Hu works internationally providing architecture, interior, master planning, graphic, and product design services. Currently working on projects in many countries, Neri&Hu is composed of multi-cultural staff who speak over 30 different languages. The diversity of the team reinforces a core vision for the practice: to respond to a global worldview incorporating overlapping design disciplines for a new paradigm in architecture.
