Bob & Sherry Faust Distinguished Lecture

1:00-3:00 p.m. Faust Architectural Archives Viewing
Caroline Marshall Draughon Auditorium,
231 Mell Street, Ralph Brown Draughon Library, Ground Floor
4:00 p.m. Lecture
5:30 p.m. Reception

The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center

241 South College Street, Auburn, AL 36830

Distinguished Lecturers

Rossana Hu

Founding Partner, Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

Chair and Miller Professor of the Department of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design

Rossana Hu co-founded Neri&Hu Design and Research Office with Lyndon Neri in 2006, an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai. Hu received her Master of Architecture and Urban Planning at Princeton University and her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley with a minor in music.

Alongside her design practice, Hu has been deeply committed to architectural education and has taught and lectured in numerous universities. Hu 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. Hu 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 Weitzman School of Design, effective spring semester 2024.

Lyndon Neri, AIA

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.