Walaid Sehwail is a designer and educator at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 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 architectural experience at award winning architecture offices including Norman Kelley, Young & Ayata, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

His design work explores architecture as a cultural practice primarily through the production of form and its materiality. Most recently his interest has revolved around a range of aesthetic qualities that challenging the relationship between physical and digital architecture. 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