'There is an infinite number of untold stories and undreamt worlds waiting to happen from your unique voice and your unique perspective.' ✨

- Sumayya Vally for MadameArchitect

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Counterspace principal Sumayya Vally is honoured to be recognized alongside these incredible women in Dezeen’s list of 50 most powerful women in architecture & design, in commemoration of #InternationalWomensDay . Thanks to the team for this honour!

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For PIN–UP 35 F/W 23/24, Sumayya Vally spoke to Emmanuel Olunkwa on beauty, the future, the past, and what architecture needs now. Shot by Bolade Banjo.

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Bravo to Sumayya Vally on being selected as one of AD Italia's #AD100 2024!

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Thank you to Financial Times readers for nominating Sumayya Vally as one of the most influential women of 2023! #ftwomen #ftwomen oftheyear

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Sumayya Vally announced as a speaker for BOF VOICES 2023!

See the rest of the lineup:

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Sumayya Vally in conversation with Alvaro Barrington for Document Journal
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'I don't believe that instinct is separate from rigor, knowledge and research' says Sumayya Vally Counterspace: worldarchitecture.org/architecture-n… #interview

'I view architecture as a site of consciousness, a site for the regeneration of history.'
Professor Sumayya Vally, Principal, Counterspace

Read more on World Economic Forum #WorldCitiesDay feature : weforum.org/agenda/2023/10…

Sumayya Vally is honoured to be nominated for Dezeen's Designer of the Year Awards in the category, Emerging Architect of the Year. Congrats to all the nominees! 👏

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We're delighted to share that Sumayya Vally has been invited to participate in the 4th edition of the Bruges Triennial – Spaces of Possibility, curated by Shendy Gardin and Sevie Tsampalla. #TRIBRU24 #spacesofpossibility

More here: triennalebrugge.be/en/programme

Where in the World is Tashkent?

Sumayya Vally is pleased to be speaking at the inaugural conference on preservation of Tashkent’s modernist architecture.

📅 October 18–19, 2023
📍 State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan

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Discover the transformative power of architecture in addressing inequality with architects Alejandro Aravena & Sumayya Vally on #StudioBUnscripted .

Join their conversation on creating a better future for all.
Watch on Al Jazeera English
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Counterspace

Sumayya Vally was recently featured in News24 🇿🇦's Saturday Profile, in which she speaks about her love for Johannesburg in spite of itself.

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For @archreview's latest issue, Sumayya Vally sends a postcard to Minnette de Silva’s rammed earth house in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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