Welcome to Modly

Fouad has over twenty years of experience as a designer, manager and technologist in the U.S. and overseas. Prior to forming Modly, he served as BLOX director of design where has was responsible for new product development and oversaw the management of the multidisciplinary design studio. He also served as team lead and main facilitator for a wide array of manufacturing and technology process improvement projects throughout the enterprise.

Fouad has extensive experience in prefabrication and off-site and led GA Studio’s initial proof of concept project in off-site in 2011, which was the precursor to BLOX.

Prior to his work at Blox, Fouad was a creative director at White Arkitekter, the largest architecture firm in the Nordics and served as lead designer on several significant projects in Sweden. His experience there was also rooted in heavy use of prefabrication and offsite construction, which has a deep and well developed basis in the Nordics. Fouad was also a member of the corporate leadership team at White and led several R&D and technology initiatives at the company.

Fouad has maintained a keen interest in both design and construction technology throughout his career. In addition to his professional activity, he has served as a visiting critic at a number of academic institutions including Auburn University, Georgia Tech, the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University. He has also served on the advisory boards of both the College of Architecture, Design and Construction at Auburn University and the department of Building Construction and Logistics at Linkoping University in Sweden. He is an Auburn Graduate and earned his B’Arch there in 2000.