Steven Fong
Associate Professor
Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Steven Fong is the founder of Steven Fong Architect. His firm has specialized in urban commercial projects, and is extensively published. Projects designed by Fong have received design awards from Canadian Architect, Progressive Architecture, Premio Palladio and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and the Wexner Center for the Arts. In addition he is co-founder of Khoury Levit Fong. KLF has been premiated in many international design competitions. Steven Fong was born in Seattle and grew up in New York. He received his professional education and a Masters of Architecture from Cornell University. At Cornell he won the Eschweiler Prize and was awarded an Eidlitz Travelling Fellowship. He interned in Zurich with Dolf Schnebli. He has taught design studios at Rice, Syracuse, University of Virginia and Cornell. His research has focused on diagram-narratives of Great Lakes waterfront cities and he devoted several years to working on the formation of Waterfront Toronto. He has been a Baker-Nord scholar at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, presenter at a Jackman Humanities Institute symposium in Toronto and received multiple project grants from the Canada Council and the Graham Foundation.
Research Interest
His research has focused on diagram-narratives of Great Lakes waterfront cities and he devoted several years to working on the formation of Waterfront Toronto.
