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
Architectural design Stephen Friedman Gallery
2023

Stephen Friedman Gallery opened its first international location in New York in October 2023, following more than two decades of establishment in London. The design and construction of the new space were completed in under a year and celebrated with an inaugural exhibition by American artist Deborah Roberts. The gallery’s design emphasizes the preservation of Tribeca’s historic interior elements, including capital columns and tin ceilings.
Trimble Architecture
Photo courtsey of Gallery and photographer



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