Ruinophilia
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how urban or adaptive reuse are related to the broader subject of sustainability and restoration in China.
- Describe how architecture can be seen as a production of cultural meaning and identity.
- Explain how adaptive reuse fits into the idea of nostalgia, or the longing for home to the point of deep pain.
- Explain the four contrasting relationships that Neri and Hu use to frame their projects.
Credits:
This course is approved as a Structured Course
This course can be self-reported to the AANB, as per their CE Guidelines
Approved for structured learning
Approved for Core Learning
This course can be self-reported to the NLAA
Course may qualify for Learning Hours with NWTAA
Course eligible for OAA Learning Hours
This course is approved as a core course
This course can be self-reported for Learning Units to the Architectural Institute of British Columbia
In this talk titled “Ruinophilia,” Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, founding partners of Shanghai-based Neri & Hu Design and Research Office, a 2009 Design Vanguard Award winning firm, discuss their love of ruins. By showcasing several projects within the framework of opposing pairings of ideas, Neri and Hu look at how buildings and materials that were meant for would otherwise be seen as ruins or meant for demolishment can be repurposed and reinvigorated into new buildings and projects that hold onto cultural meaning and identity.
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Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu are Founding Partners of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office. Whether through objects of intimate daily use or vessels of inhabitation, they seek an approach to design that draws from multiple disciplines to provide experiences that enrich contemporary life while still keeping a critical linkage to a collective history. 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. They were 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. Rossana 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. They co-authored and edited Persistence of Vision: Shanghai Architects in Dialogue published by MCCM Creations in 2007. In 2017, their 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. Lyndon and Rossana are also Founding Partners of Design Republic in Shanghai since 2004, a design platform incorporating a retail concept, design and cultural exhibitions, and education. In 2015, they were appointed as Creative Directors of Stellar Works, an international furniture brand that honors and advances the spirit and heritage of Asian crafts and traditions. Lyndon has been a board member of Roll & Hill LLC. in Brooklyn since 2010, and Rossana has served on the International Advisory Board of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra since 2018. |
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