Rossana HU & Lyndon NERI
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
Lecture in Memory of Ron Wommack
Lyndon Neri, Hon. FAIA, and Rossana Hu are Founding Partners of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office. They utilize an interdisciplinary design approach that enriches contemporary life while showing respect for China’s cultural heritage. Alongside their design practice, Lyndon and Rossana have been deeply committed to architectural education and have lectured across the globe in various universities and professional forums. Rossana is the Chair of the Department of Architecture at Penn, and Lyndon is a visiting Professor at Princeton’s School of Architecture. They co-authored Persistence of Vision: Shanghai Architects in Dialogue and have published two monographs, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office and Thresholds: Space, Time and Practice.
Neri&Hu Design and Research Office is an international design studio based in Shanghai. The practice’s burgeoning global portfolio includes commissions ranging from master planning and architecture to interior design, installation, furniture, product, branding, and graphic works. Currently working on projects in many countries, Neri&Hu is composed of multi-cultural staff who speak over thirty 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. Their designs have been recognized by a number of prestigious international awards spanning the fields of interior, product, and graphic design; as well as architecture. These accolades include American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture; Architizer A+ Awards Best Adaptive Reuse and Renovation Firm; Architizer A+ Awards Firm of the Year; Dezeen Awards Architecture Studio of the Year; ELLE Decor International Design Awards Designers of the Year; Wallpaper* Design Awards Designers of the Year; Interior Design Hall of Fame Induction and Architectural Record Design Vanguard.
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Ron WOMMACK, FAIA established his firm, Ron Wommack Architect, in 1990. Prior to establishing his own firm, Ron had worked for two of the Southwest’s most recognized and design-oriented firms, The Oglesby Group and Frank Welch Associates. Projects of Ron Wommack Architect have ranged from the refurbishing of older housing units into viable urban dwellings, the development of new denser housing typologies, and singlefamily residences to corporate office facilities and public / community projects. For this body of work, the firm has received more than twelve American Institute of Architects (AIA) component design awards since 1994 including six Texas Society of Architects and AIA/Dallas Honor Awards. The firm also received D-Magazine Home of the Year awards, and awards from Preservation Dallas.
Ron was deeply involved in the architecture community, serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and as a visiting studio critic at Texas Tech University. He was the past president of the Dallas Architecture Forum and was elected to the College of Fellows of the AIA in 2004, with his firm being honored as the 2006 AIA Dallas Firm of the Year. He served in leadership positions for multiple AIA Dallas committees, including chairing the Design Awards Committee and Small Firms Roundtable Network, and was the 2024 chair of the Fellows Network. Ron received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Texas Tech University in 1976. He served as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and as a visiting studio critic at Texas Tech University. Ron was also the past President of the Board of The Dallas Architecture Forum.
