SMArchS, MIT; BArch from BNU
Mahwish Khalil is an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture and 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, she examines how site-specific transformations are negotiated through architecture and cultural production.
Her 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.
