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Emily Xintong Yan is an architectural designer and researcher passionate about space, design and their fables.
Her work are driven by an intuitive desire to investigate and storytell. Her ongoing research projects are genre-bending pursuits, intrigued by the capacity of humanism and spatial sociology. Her paper architecture explores the fictive potential of tectonic forms and embeds philosophies of dwelling inspired by film, literature and dreams. Her narrative style emulsifies fiction and nonfiction, poeticism and history, creative writing and reportage. She is dedicated to a multi-disciplinary practice where architecture, arts, and letters reaffirm our human presence in the world.
She was born in Singapore, raised in China, grew up in the UK and educated in the US. The Alphabet
The Waiting Room
The Utopia
The Garden
The Residence I
The Lighthouse
The Residence II
The Gallery
The Bridge
The Postcard
The Shell
The Archives
The Museum
The Trees
The Place EditorialPostmarked
2022
Postmarked is a student-led publication founded to highlight the interdisciplinarity of architecture through student’s writing and image making. Its themes center around physical borders and disciplinary boundaries. The publication takes the format of a booklet of postcards, designed to be taken apart and sent across boundaries.
The founding issue themed “Sonder” takes after a melacholic definition found in The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It intends to capture the complexity and slipperiness our existense is in parallel with our allies and strangers. Consisting of submissions sent from 3 continents, 10 disciplines engaged with 3 languages, the collection of writings range from short essays, poems, letters, reflections and criticisms.
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Postmarked Team
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