Walaid Sehwail Is a designer and educator, he received his M.Arch from the University of Pennsylvania
where he was awarded the Dales Travel Fellowship and the Faculty Prize design award, and earned his
BS in Architectural Studies from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has professional experience
in award winning architecture offices including Norman Kelley, Young & Ayata, and Skidmore, Owings &
Merrill.
His interests explore architecture as a cultural practice primarily through the production of form and its
materiality which invites a range of aesthetic qualities that are typically marginalized within a disciplinary
context such as clumsiness, fuzziness, and crudeness, Most recently his work revolves around
architecture as digital assets. His work has been exhibited at the A+D Museum in LA, Design Museum of
Chicago and the Dock 6 Collective, and has work published in Off-Ramp online journal and
Antagonismos Architecture Magazine