TWA_ Neri&Hu

The World Around & The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum present THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2024.
Since establishing their Shanghai practice Neri&Hu in 2004, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu have become a global names in contemporary architecture, drawing international recognition for their tactile minimalism of its cultural projects across China.
“Public forums such as The World Around Summit interrogate designers to leave their comfort zone and demand that our work respond to social justice, climate change, and cultural significance,” said Neri and Hu, who will present their most recent project-the extension to the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts-during our day-long event in New York City.
The museum was envisaged as a source of illumination for the city of Xi’an, in China, accommodating the museum’s expanded cultural and commercial programs. Floating a red stone lantern above its entrance as a symbol of Xi’an’s social histories, Neri&Hu aimed to create an architecture that stands as a continuation of its cultural lineage.
From intimate spaces of inhabitation, to entire neighbourhood master plans, the pair has created an architecture that aspires to enduring poeticism through connection to its context. Drawing on multiple disciplines, their process crafts delicate balances-between space and mass, light and shadow, reverence to what came before and a global frame of reference to design dynamic, contemporary forms.
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This presentation has been edited and was part of THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2024, presented by The World Around and the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Saturday, May, 11 2024. The event was hosted in partnership with The World Around Global Cultural Partner Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain.
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