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From +Pool and works for West to 'New Spaces of Justice'

2021-04-19T20:41:00-04:00

As a young architect in the 2010s she was working with clients like Kanye West, designing everything from his Parisian apartment to a seven-screen audio-visual experience...A few years later alongside Wong, she designed that iconic mountain that split in half and turned into a volcano during the Yeezus Tour in 2013.

@Lei_Takanashi profiles Oana Stănescu, who now runs her own eponymous multifaceted practice, after her and her partner Wong decided to close Family New York in 2018.

#025YEZ by Oana Stanescu & Dong-Ping Wong

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The pop culture-bending firm, Family New York, has decided to part ways

2018-02-08T13:36:00-05:00

Since establishing the practice in 2010, Family New York has accrued an impressive array of projects to their name, as well as fans of their work. Over the course of only eight years, founders Oana Stanescu and Dong-Ping Wong have had the opportunity to collaborate with everyone from the New Museum to Virgil Abloh and Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. During this time, the duo has engaged in fanciful projects like their proposal for a water-filtering, floating pool off the shores of New York City and their movable, 50-foot volcano for West's dazzling, Yeezus tour.

Despite this solid run, the two have decided to go their separate ways and disband the practice. According to their statement, Stanescu, who is a former top-notch Archinect School Blogger, is going on to pursue a multifaceted practice under her own name. She will also continue on with her teaching positions at Harvard GSD and Cooper Union. Wong has also decided to start his own firm, FOOD, with projects already in the works i...

A Secret Language: Oana Stanescu and Dong-Ping Wong, partners at Family, on Archinect Sessions One-to-One #16

2016-03-28T14:04:00-04:00

This week on One-to-One, we check in with the partners behind Family, Oana Stanescu (former top-notch Archinect School Blogger) and Dong-Ping Wong, to hear how the pop culture-bending firm grew from when Oana and Dong met at REX, to now designing for Kanye West and pitching their own projects in New York, including the innovative + Pool project. Also, why Oana's dog is all over their website.

Listen to One-to-One #16 with Oana Stanescu and Dong-Ping Wong of Family:

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Shownotes:

Oana's archived School Blog for Universitatea „Politehnica” din Timişoara

What Oana is reading:

Life Is Elsewhere, by Milan Kundera
Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
Rhinoceros, by Eugène Ionesco

What Oana is listening to: Nirvana, Guns & Roses

What Dong is watching...

Oana Stanescu, the architect behind Kanye's volcano, talks to NY Times about pushing design boundaries via pop culture

2015-08-06T18:45:00-04:00

For a serious architect who has designed public housing in Dallas and a bridge in Slovenia, it may come as a surprise that Oana Stanescu’s best-known work is a 50-foot-high volcano that Kanye West ascended onstage during his grandiose Yeezus tour...Along with Dong-Ping Wong, her partner in the West Village architectural firm Family, Ms. Stanescu is making a name for herself in design circles for her ability to merge pop culture with utilitarian design.

For more Family on Archinect, you can check out Oana's archived Archinect School Blog, the +POOL, and the firm's other cool projects.

Editor's Picks #267

2012-06-04T23:21:00-04:00

Orhan Ayyüce penned Review: Carlson-Reges House, RoTo Architects. In it Orhan described how Carlson-Reges House has grown out of logistics and a "story within a story". Steven Ward waxed nostalgic about the fact that he had an "opportunity to visit this house with mr rotondi in 2003. stunning - and completely unique. there really could never be anything else like it. and the brewery is a magic little 'neighborhood'."

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Orhan Ayyüce penned Review: Carlson-Reges House, RoTo Architects. In it Orhan described how Carlson-Reges House has grown out of logistics and a "story within a story". Steven Ward waxed nostalgic about the fact that he had an "opportunity to visit this house with mr rotondi in 2003. stunning - and completely unique. there really could never be anything else like it. and the brewery is a magic little 'neighborhood'."

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, officially opened to the public on, June 1. Since Chinese officials had put Ai Weiwei on 'city arrest' in his hometown Beijing, he was not able to attend the ceremony together with his design collaborators Jaques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Fred Scharmen’s first thought was "They really did make it out of cork!”
and bothands posts “Agreed about the lighting - pinholes through the water could've been cool..." However, Michael Jantzen thoug...