Landscape Architect, Co-Founder of post·rock, and Lecturer of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong
Chinese (Hong Kong and New York), 1990
Sonny Meng Qi Xu is a Chinese-Canadian landscape architect (NY #003211) and architectural designer based in Hong Kong and New York. He is the co-founder, with Jialei Tang, of 石·现 post·rock — a design, art, and research studio focused on landscape, representation, and
material inquiry. With over a decade of professional experience, he most recently worked as an Associate | Landscape Architect at STIMSON, contributing to institutional and residential projects. His previous experience includes practice at Stoss Landscape Urbanism, Mohsen Mostafavi Architecture, and FXCollaborative.
Xu teaches across architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Hong Kong and has taught in North America since 2018, including as a Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design and as a studio instructor at Harvard GSD, the Boston Architectural College, and the University of Calgary.
He holds dual master’s degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture (with Distinction) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University (Thesis Prize). His work has been exhibited internationally and explores themes of material memory, the sublime, borders, ecology, and the relationship between natural and constructed environments.
Sonny likes rocks.
