School of Architecture Welcomes New Faculty Hires

Mahwish Khalil and Pablo Sequero join the faculty as tenure-track assistant professors, and Dennis Sola has been named the School’s Harry der Boghosian Fellow for the 2026–27 academic year.

Mahwish Khalil

Mahwish KhalilMahwish Khalil joins the school as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. She is the founder of Critical Encounters, a research-based practice that investigates environmental infrastructure, climate and governance through spatial practice. Her work focuses on environmental change, with particular attention to water systems and their representation. Through design, writing, film and exhibition-making, Khalil examines how site-specific transformations are negotiated through architecture and cultural production.

Khalil’s work has been exhibited at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (2026), Venice Architecture Biennale (2025) and CityGroup (2025). Her writing has been published in Room One Thousand, South Asian Urban Climates, Silt Magazine, Urban Assemblage, and POOL. Her short films, Ravi: Tales from a River (2023) and In the Fold of Shadows (2025) have been screened internationally.

Khalil holds a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Architecture with Distinction from Beaconhouse National University.

Pablo Sequero

Pablo SequeroPablo Sequero joins the school as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. A registered architect and educator from Spain, he is co-founder of the award-winning architectural design and research practice salazarsequeromedina. His practice approaches the built environment as a cumulative, evolving condition, where design operates through the lens of adaptation. Across built projects and speculative proposals, Sequero focuses on local typologies, shifting climates and material assemblies, considering the generative potential of adaptive re-use.

Previously, Sequero has served as a Visiting Critic at Cornell AAP, a Visiting Scholar at Montana State University, and a Visiting Professor at Arquitectura PUCP in Lima, Peru. He has taught design studios, visual representation and building technology electives and thesis at both undergraduate and graduate level.

Sequero holds a Master of Architecture degree from the ETSAM, Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he received an ASEMAS national award for design excellence.

Dennis Sola

Dennis SolaDennis Sola joins the School as the Harry der Boghosian Fellow for 2026–27. During the school year, Sola will develop a year-long body of design research centered on time, finitude, maintenance and architecture’s relation to absence. His investigation will examine how architecture enters duration, how it persists through maintenance and transformation and how buildings might anticipate their own disappearance as part of their conception.

Drawing from a reading of absence against essence, the fellowship will ask how architecture can be understood through exposure, use, alteration and withdrawal, allowing form to register an awareness of its own lifespan. The research is informed by construction cultures in which adaptation and transformation often take precedence over permanence, and where continuity is secured through ongoing modification.

Sola’s year-long investigation will connect seminar, studio and built work through a sustained investigation into what he describes as “geometries of tendency,” where form emerges through pressures, inclinations, durations and the productive incompletion of architecture over time.

Prior to joining Syracuse Architecture, Sola co-founded and led Ídem, a former Quito-based architectural practice whose residential work unfolded across the Andean highlands and rainforests of Ecuador, while its cultural and infrastructural projects engaged Quito and other territories. These projects shaped a practice attentive to logistics, construction protocols, material duration, environmental exposure and the temporal life of buildings. Sola’s work has been featured internationally and exhibited.

Sola earned his architecture degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and holds a master’s in architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.