Winner: Emerging architect of the year 2023. South African architect Sumayya Vally. Sumayya Vally is founder of Counterspace, an award-winning architecture and research practice. Vally's current ...

A thunderstorm raged in the background as I spoke to the architect Sumayya Vally over the phone from her hometown of Johannesburg, South Africa. Luckily, the 30-year-old architect knows how to weather ...

South African architect Sumayya Vally was propelled to global prominence for designing the 2020 Serpentine Pavilion in London, UK. Due to the pandemic, the structure was not inaugurated till the ...

Changemaker, Pioneer, and One to watch. These would all be fair descriptions of South African architect Sumayya Vally who is presently organising the world’s first Islamic Arts Biennale in Saudi ...

After a year’s delay, London’s Serpentine Galleries have unveiled the latest iteration of the summer architectural pavilion. Designed by up-and-coming architecture studio Counterspace, which is led by ...

"Farnana used his position to advocate for the rights of black people and participated in the first Pan African Congress in 1919, initiated by W.E.B. Du Bois. This inspired him to found the first ...

Studying architecture in her native South Africa, Sumayya Vally and her fellow students were regularly told that anything they could imagine had already been done. The subtext was clear: architecture ...