2021 Platinum Circle honoree Rossana Hu, cofounding partner of Shanghai-based Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, has announced that she will serve as chair of the department of architecture at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) at Shanghai’s Tongji University. Hu will focus on expanding disciplinary boundaries to promote a more integrated approach, inclusion, and community-building in order to further elevate the program.
“As Hu brings a diverse and global perspective to the school, through the dialectic examination of such fundamental issues as the boundaries of the discipline, the social value of architecture, and the future of urban development, more channels of international communication are sure to open up for architectural research and teaching at Tongji,” says CAUP dean Li Xiangning.
“For almost 20 years, I have been watching Tongji University from the ‘outside.’ I have admired the talents in the school, both teachers and students,” Hu adds. “I have heard many distinguished architects speak here and benefited from this community of scholars and practitioners, and now as I witness Tongji Unviersity extending its reach and embarking on a global vision for its future, I am delighted to be a part of this effort of opening up, transcending boundaries, and responding to social, technical, and environmental problems at large while embracing communities at the home front, so that we as architects can integrate better with our city and the world beyond.”
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