Rossana Hu

An abbreviation for et cetera, "etc." is often used at the end of a list to "indicate that further, similar items are included". As a title, "etc." points to the extension of the Weitzman lecture Hu gave two years ago on the theme of thresholds, hinting at the full title "thresholds etc..." and adds new insight to an expanded list of project pairings which explores various physical mediation between contrasting spatial environments.

"etc." is also used to avoid giving a complete list, inferring that projects in both practice and academia are always "becoming", a fluid and open system never meant to be finished. The relationships between neri&hu's projects of multidisciplinary scopes are connected in infinite ways, between space, time and practice... etc.

Rossana Hu co-founded Neri&Hu Research Office with Lyndon Neri in 2004, an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China. Hu received her Master of Architecture and Urban Planning at Princeton University and her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at UC Berkeley with a minor in music. Alongside her design practice, Hu has been deeply committed to architectural education and has taught and lectured in numerous universities. Hu was appointed the Howard Friedman Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of California, Berkeley in 2023, the Design Critic in 2023 and the John C. Portman Design Critic in Architecture in 2019 and 2021 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor in 2022 and Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor Chair in 2018 at the Yale School of Architecture. Hu was appointed as Chair of the Department of Architecture at Tongji University in 2021 and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design, effective January 1, 2024.

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