Mahsa Malek

Mahsa Malek

Programming - Talks

M.Arch, BAS

Mahsa Malek is an Iranian-Canadian designer and educator. She is currently an adjunct professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture. Previously, she was a designer at Williamson Williamson Inc. in Toronto, where she worked on several award-winning commercial and residential projects. She has worked at multiple offices in Canada and the United States including Bjarke Ingels Group and Leroy Street Studio and has been a guest critic at the University of Toronto, Syracuse University, Virginia Tech, and University of Virginia.

She holds a Master of Architecture AP from Princeton University with a certificate from the Media and Modernity Program, where she was the recipient of the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize for excellence in design. She also holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies with distinction from the University of Waterloo in Canada, where she graduated on the dean’s honors list.

As an advocate for women in architecture, she currently serves as a committee executive of Building Equality in Architecture Toronto (BEAT) where she organizes the BEAT Talk series.