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Wendy Fok

Wendy W Fok (she/them), trained as an architect, is interested in design, technology, and creative solutions for the built environment.

They have experience in Product Development and Program Management from Zero to Launch, Design-Build, Manufacturing, Hardware/Software, and Digital Fabrication. Proficient in 3D modelling, innovative material research, design-build, augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (XR) design, and other types of engagement that could promote a larger discussion of how consumers interact with products and delivery for architecture, real estate, retail, and innovative business development.

Their work is supported by the Architectural League & NYSCA Grant (2023), NYFA/New York City Corps Artist Grant (2021/22), MacDowell (2022), Ford Foundation (2022), Urban Design Forum (since 2018), to name a few. They were featured as Autodesk Remake’s Women in Reality Computing (2017), winner of the Autodesk AiR (2016), Digital Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress (2014/15), ADC Young Guns 11 Award (2013), AIA Dallas Women in Architecture (2013), Perspective 40 under 40 (2011), and Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award (2009).

Their book “digitalSTRUCTURES” (ORO Editions, 2023) interrogates issues of digital property and data infrastructures. Fok was the co-editor of AD Journal’s “Digital Property – Open-Source Architecture”, published by Wiley. Their recent article “Hidden Infrastructures: From ‘Spy-Hubs’ to Hollow Buildings that Conceal the New Digital” was published in the final AD Journal ‘Multispace” edited by Owen Hopkins. Their past book chapter “Bio-Data Matter of New York City” is published by Routledge in “Data, Matter, Design – Strategies in Computational Design”, edited by Frank Melendez, Nancy Diniz, Marcella Del Signore.

Fok holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) partnering with the Harvard Law School, obtained her Master of Architecture and Certification of Urban Policy/Planning from Princeton University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with a Concentration in Economics (Statistics) from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Courses

Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
ARCH6981‑1 Spring 2026
Industry, Practice & Research – Intersecting Design & Entrepreneurship in Architecture
Wendy Fok Syllabus
409 Avery
F 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
3 Points
15635