Following her roles as a critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2021 and 2019, she was once again invited to serve as a critic there in 2023.In 2022 and 2018, Hu held positions at Yale School of Architecture as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor and the Norman Foster Visiting Professor, respectively.
Hu has also taught and lectured at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and Syracuse University School of Architecture as the Mark Robins Endowed Lecture.
[5] Hu and Neri moved to Shanghai in 2002 and opened a showroom called Design Republic in 2004.
[6] They expanded to a third store in 2012 where they sell household furnishings that are modern, but get ideas from old Chinese objects.
[13] Hu designed the Fuzhou Teahouse, completed in 2021,[14][15] and the Aranya Art Center in Shanghei.