Emily Xintong YanEmily Xintong Yan is an inter-disciplinary designer and researcher based in Cambridge, Massachusetts passionate about spatial design and place narratives. Trained as an architect and multi-displinary artist, she is currently pursuing a history- and theory- focused degree (MDes, Narratives) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Committed to an interdisciplinary practice, she splits her time between multi-disciplinary research, filmmaking, as well as architectural and literary theory. Marked by her deep love for people and humanism, her work strives to hold meaning and create empathetic understanding for the lived experience.

She was born in Singapore, raised in China, grew up in the UK and educated in the US. 




TypeProjectYear
Research, ExhibitionNuclear AlphabetOngoing
Research, DocumentaryIn Praise of Waiting RoomsOngoing
Set designStudio Wenjüe Lu x telos.haus2025
Architectural design
Residence for a jeweler family2025

Concept
Light-Haus2024

Arcihtectural design
Residence for two musicians 2024

Arcihtectural designStephen Friedman Gallery 2023
Concept, DesignIn Search of Settlement
2022

EditorialPostmarked
2022

Concept, Design
House for the Blind
2021

Concept, Design
Archiving the Archives
2021

Photography
Stones Feel, Trees Fly 2020

Photography
Space/Place
Ongoing

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.
Collaborators: Postmarked Team








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