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Sumayya Vally is a Musilm South African architect, and founder of the practice Counterspace.
“Architecture is abstract, and I think what I’m doing in my practice is making a concerted effort to find different sources for the origins of that abstraction.
I think what has happened in the cannon and in the profession more broadly is that we’ve inherited so much that we don’t deeply question…I think the languages that we’ve inherited could do with being supplemented or oven being overtaken, dare I say, by other origins, that come from different ways of being and different value systems.”
– SV
Scaffold is an Architecture Foundation production, hosted by Matthew Blunderfield.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sumayya Vally is a Musilm South African architect, and founder of the practice Counterspace.
“Architecture is abstract, and I think what I’m doing in my practice is making a concerted effort to find different sources for the origins of that abstraction.
I think what has happened in the cannon and in the profession more broadly is that we’ve inherited so much that we don’t deeply question…I think the languages that we’ve inherited could do with being supplemented or oven being overtaken, dare I say, by other origins, that come from different ways of being and different value systems.”
– SV
Scaffold is an Architecture Foundation production, hosted by Matthew Blunderfield.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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