“不求恒久远，但求意未尽”– 安东尼.德.圣埃克苏佩里

“We don’t ask to be eternal beings,we only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.”--Antoine De Saint Exupéry

由郭锡恩先生和胡如珊女士于2004年共同创立的如恩设计研究室（Neri&Hu），是一家立足于中国上海，在英国伦敦设有分办公室的多元化建筑设计研究室。如恩设计提供国际化的建筑、室内、整体规划、平面以及产品设计服务。公司目前的项目分布在很多不同的国家，拥有来自全世界各地的员工，使用超过30种语言。不同文化背景组成了如恩的设计团队，正是团队的差异独特性增强了我们的设计理念：以全球化的观念结合多元、重叠的设计理念来创造一个新的建筑范例。

Founded in 2004 by partners Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu, Neri&Hu Design and Research Officeis an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China with an additional office in London, UK. Neri&Hu works internationally providing architecture, interior, master planning, graphic, and product design services. Currently working on projects in many countries, Neri&Hu is composed of multi-cultural staff who speak over 30 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.

公司地点选择在上海有其独特原因。上海是一个走在世界前沿的城市，Neri&Hu就处在这个多种元素并存的中心，融入了上海的文化、城市和历史背景并将其作为开拓建筑设计的一个出发点。目前与建筑相关的课题正趋于超出传统设计的界限，如恩设计研究室则用其他补充方式对建筑的传统分界提出挑战并进行诠释。

Neri&Hu’s location is purposeful. With shanghai considered a new global frontier, Neri&Hu is in the center of this contemporary chaos. The city’s cultural, urban, and historic contexts function as a point of departure for the architectural explorations involved in every project. Because new sets of contemporary problems relating to buildings now extend beyond traditional architecture, the practice challenges traditional boundaries of architecture to include other complementary disciplines.

Neri&Hu始终认为研究是设计的一种有力工具，因为每个项目都具备有其特有的背景。对规划运作、地点、功能和历史等进行细致深入的研究是创造严谨作品不可或缺的要素。在研究的基础上，Neri&Hu致力于建筑与经验、细节、材料、形状及灯光的积极互动，而不是单纯地遵照模式化刻板风格。每个项目背后的最终成功之处都是通过建筑本身外观形象所体现出来的意义而得到淋漓尽致的体现。

Neri&Hu believes strongly in research as a design tool, as each project bears its unique set of contextual issues. A critical probing into the specificities of program, site, function, and history is essential to the creation of rigorous design work. Based on research, Neri&Hu desires to anchor its work on the dynamic interaction of experience, detail, material, form, and light rather than conforming to a formulaic style. The ultimate significance behind each project comes from how the built forms create meaning through their physical representations.

郭锡恩先生毕业于加州大学伯克莱建筑学院，获建筑学学士学位；之后，又在哈佛设计学院取得了建筑学硕士学位。在创立如恩设计研究室之前，他在普林斯顿的迈克·格雷夫斯建筑事务所（Michael Graves Architects and Associates）任亚洲区项目总监一职十余年之久，并在纽约多家知名的建筑公司任职。

Mr. Neri received a Master of Architecture at Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to starting his own practice with partner Rossana Hu, he was the Director for Projects in Asia and an Associate for Michael Graves & Associates in Princeton for over 10 years, and also worked in New York City for various architectural firms.

胡如珊女士毕业于加州大学伯克莱建筑学院，获建筑学学士学位；之后又获得普林斯顿大学建筑及城市规划硕士学位。在与郭锡恩先生创立如恩设计研究室前，胡如珊女士曾任职于迈克·格雷夫斯（Michael Graves Architects and Associates），普林斯顿的Ralph Lerner Architect PC，纽约的Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) 以及旧金山的The Architects Collaborative (TAC) 等著名建筑公司。

Ms. Hu received a Master of Architecture and Urban Planning from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Music from the University of California at Berkeley. Before establishing Neri&Hu with her partner Lyndon Neri, Ms. Hu worked for Michael Graves & Associates, Ralph Lerner Architect in Princeton, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York City, and The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in San Francisco.

郭锡恩先生还与胡如珊女士共同创立了设计共和（DesignRepublic），一家总部位于中国上海，汇集诸多国际顶级设计师的系列产品的家居零售店，其中的大部分产品都是第一次进入中国市场。由如恩设计研究室设计的设计共和旗舰店，荣获了2007年度亚洲设计大奖（DFA）大中华杰出设计奖。

Lyndon Neri is also a founder of Design Republic, a retail concept store based in Shanghai that offers a unique collection of products created by the world's best design talents, many of which have never before been made available to consumers in China. The flagship store design, created by Neri&Hu, earned the Perspective Awards Best Interior Retail and the DFA (Design For Asia) Best Design of Greater China.

除从事建筑与室内设计之外，郭锡恩先生和胡如珊女士共同为包括荷兰品牌Moooi, 德国品牌Classicon, 意大利品牌LEMA, 立足上海品牌Stellar Works，西班牙品牌Gandia Blasco, BD Barcelona Design,Parachilna以及Meritalia在内的欧洲多家品牌进行产品设计，与后两个品牌的合作同时也是“施华洛世奇元素——『晶』心杰作”系列的一部分，在米兰展上大放光彩。

Aside from Architecture and Interiors, together with his partner Ms. Rossana Hu, Mr. Neri is actively working on a number of industrial design products for various brands in Europe including MOOOI, LEMA, Parachilna, Classicon, Gandia Blasco, Stellar Works, Meritalia and BD Barcelona Design, the latter two were in collaboration with Swarovski’s “SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS at Work” project.