Mahsa Malek
Mahsa Malek
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 board executive of Building Equality in Architecture Toronto (BEAT) where she organizes the BEAT Talk series.
Kiana Mozayyan
Kiana Mozayyan
Talks
OAA, M.Arch
Kiana is a Planner at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine. She holds a Master of Arts in Persian Mystical Poetry, as well as a Master of Architecture from the University of Toronto. Over the course of her studies and after graduating from UofT, Kiana has taught and assisted in courses exploring health and architecture, urbanism, and core studio courses. Kiana is an active member of Toronto’s design community and is an executive board member with BEAT (Building Equality in Architecture Toronto). Kiana is currently involved in a research project focusing on the intersection of health, physical space, and policy.