What the work is
Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu lead Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, an architectural practice based in Shanghai. Its work spans buildings and master plans, interiors, installations, furniture, products, branding and graphics.
How it was made
The studio describes research into a project’s use, site and history as the basis of its process. Shanghai’s urban and cultural context provides a starting point for inquiries that move across design disciplines.
What works
This breadth offers a way to study continuity across scales. A building, its interior and the objects within it can be examined as related decisions, rather than treating architecture as an isolated exterior image.
What does not
An integrated practice does not guarantee that every part works equally well. Claims about experience, materials or context still need to be tested against a specific project and the people using it.
What it influenced
The studio’s account emphasizes relationships among detail, material, form and light. Its significance as a study subject lies in that cross-disciplinary method; a list of awards cannot substitute for examining how the method operates.
Is it worth your time
Worth studying through one completed project in depth. Trace the site analysis into spatial organization and then into an interior detail. That sequence gives a more useful account of the practice than a collage of portfolio images.
