Talk to me about:

● How does architecture work beyond spatial design?

● How might real estate be incorporated into the future of luxury?

● How do innovation and technology work with the future of luxury?

● What types of innovative and emerging technologies will be employed in luxury in the future?

Wendy W. Fok, trained as an architect, is the creative director of WE-DESIGNS (architecture/creative strategy) and New Territory (a mission-driven real estate venture). A fellow at the Urban Design Forum since 2018, she was featured in Autodesk Remake’s Women in Reality Computing (2017) and has received a number of other honors: Autodesk AiR (2016), a Kluge Digital Fellowship at the Library of Congress (2014–2015), an ADC Young Guns 11 Award (2013), naming to the AIA Dallas Women in Architecture (2013), listing in Perspective’s 40 under 40 (2011), and a Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award (2009). Fok completed her Doctor of Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design and is an Assistant Professor at Parsons and a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Law School. She has an MArch and a Certification in Urban Policy/Planning from Princeton and a BA in Architecture (Concentration in Economics—Statistics) from Barnard College, Columbia University.

WE-DESIGNS has been selected by Twenty+Change Emerging Canadian Design Practices (2011). Fok was shortlisted for one of 13 DX Emerging Talent Awards (2013) and won in the Maker category in Western Living’s Designer of the Year competition (2016).

Fok has an international background, having spent time in New York, London, Paris, Vienna, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Canada. Her award-winning projects have been exhibited internationally at events including SXSW; the 12th, 13th, and 16th editions of La Biennale di Venezia; the Beijing Design Biennale; and the Shanghai Expo 2010, to name a few.

In her spare time, Fok continues to develop resilient modular systems (RMSs), public benefits corporations leading innovative and sustainable modular construction, and (C)ODE-(C)OLLECTIVE, a collective forum and educational site on the critical utility of digital design. She also served as co-editor of AD Journal on “Digital Property—Open Source Architecture,” published by Wiley.