Conference | Total Design
With architect Lyndon Neri
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“We aimed at realizing standards of excellence, not creating transient novelties. Experiment once more became the center of architecture, and that demands a broad, coordinating mind, not the narrow specialist.” This statement by Walter Gropius captures the enduring ethos of the Bauhaus—a principle that lies at the heart of our own practice.
This lecture will focus on how “interdisciplinary” is often recast as a new buzzword, while arguing that its foundational tenets were in fact established a century ago by movements like the Bauhaus and Art Nouveau. Gropius’s call for a “broad, coordinating mind” precisely defines the interdisciplinary spirit.
Our practice embodies this philosophy. It is a spirit that operates across architecture, interiors, product, and graphic design, and it has guided our own evolution from designing small objects to undertaking large-scale architecture and master planning. Crucially, we recognize that these seminal movements were not primarily about a particular “style,” but rather a larger collective ambition: a total design vision that orchestrates the built environment from the largest gestalt down to the smallest detail.
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Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Founding Partner, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office Lyndon Neri, Hon. FAIA, co-founded Neri&Hu Design and Research Office with Rossana Hu in 2006, an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai. 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 at numerous universities. He was appointed as Visiting Faculty at Princeton University School of Architecture for the spring semesters of 2024 and 2025. Neri 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. Neri co-authored and edited Persistence of Vision: Shanghai Architects in Dialogue published by MCCM Creations in 2007. In 2017, his first monograph Neri&Hu Design and Research Office was published by Park Books. In 2021, the second monograph Thresholds: Space, Time and Practice was published by Thames&Hudson and the Chinese edition was translated and published in 2023 by Guangxi Normal University Press. Neri has been elevated to Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2025.