Sumayya Vally
Counterspace is an award-winning architecture and research practice led by its Principal, Honorary Professor Sumayya Vally.
The practice occupies a space between the functional and the speculative; pedagogy and praxis; simultaneously describing cities and their histories and futures, and imagining them.
Inspired by its location, Johannesburg, Counterspace is committed to developing design form, particularly for the continent – through design research, publishing, pedagogy, built things, buildings, and other forms of architecture. Our current projects are focused on expressions for African and Islamic hybrid identities – both rooted and diasporic.
Sumayya Vally is an architectural practice based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Grains of ParadiseBruges - BelgiumPhoto by Filip Dujardin