Liliane Wong

Liliane Wong received her BA in Mathematics from Vassar College and her MArch from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Interior Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design that focuses on architectural interventions to existing structures. Her interest and teaching in this subject led her to co-found the Int|AR Journal on Design Interventions & Adaptive Reuse that promotes creative and academic explorations of sustainable environments through exemplary works of reuse. A long-time volunteer at soup kitchens, her teaching emphasizes the importance of public engagement in architecture and design. Other teaching and research areas include design as social activism, the mathematics of curved space, the low income, modular home and technical textiles. She was recognized by Design Intelligence for 2018-2019 as one of the top 25 most admired educators in the US in the fields of architecture, interiors and landscape architecture.

She is the author of Adaptive Reuse_Extending the Lives of Buildings, co-author of Libraries – A Design Manual and contributing author of Designing Interior Architecture