About this Event
Dong-Ping Wong is an architect based in Chinatown, Manhattan. He is the Founding Director of Food New York, an international practice whose work includes an outdoor bathhouse and garden in the Cayman Islands, flagship stores for the late-Virgil Abloh, multiple homes, stores and stages for Kanye West and Kim Kardashian and a seasonal mahjong club in Chinatown. Projects currently under construction include a bathhouse in Manhattan, and an artists’ residency campus in the Caribbean. Wong started his practice by creating +POOL, the world’s first water-filtering floating pool. The project spawned a non-profit, two patents, global support, and most recently $16 million in funding from New York City and State. His work has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Fast Company, Complex, and Wired. Dong-Ping earned his Master of Architecture from Columbia GSAPP, where he has also taught, and his Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley. Dong-Ping was born in San Diego, CA.
PHOTO CREIT: Mo Balatero
IMAGE CAPTION: A handful of projects about being uncomfortable.
Gensler Family AAP NYC Center's Fall 2026 lecture series brings together innovative designers, thinkers, and civic and cultural leaders who are shaping new approaches to making, building, and creating spaces for people. Curated by Cornall AAP faculty Jesse Le Cavalier (Associate Prof. and Dir. M.S. Advanced Urban Design) and Florian Idenburg (Prof. of the Practice, principal Solid Objectives), our lectures take place in our new permanent home on the 4th floor of the Tata Innovation Center (Cornell Tech campus, Roosevelt Island).
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INTRODUCTION and Q+A by Jesse LeCavalier
Jesse LeCavalier is an Associate Professor and Director, Master of Science, Advanced Urban Design Program at Cornell AAP. He uses the tools of urban design and architecture to research, theorize, and speculate about infrastructure and logistics. He is the author of The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), and his design work has been recognized by the Sudbury 2050 urban design competition, the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, the Oslo Triennale, and the Seoul Biennale. LeCavalier was the Daniel Rose Visiting Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Architecture (2017–19) and the 2010–11 Sanders Fellow at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared in Cabinet, Public Culture, Places, Art Papers, and Harvard Design Magazine. His essay “The Restlessness of Objects” received a 2013 Core77 Design Award.
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Gensler Family AAP NYC Center, Tata Innovation Building, Cornell Tech, New York, United States
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