Please join us in welcoming Sumayya Vally, founder of the Johannesburg and London-based design research practice Counterspace, to GSAPP for the Annual Kenneth Frampton Lecture on Monday, April 24 at 6:30 pm in Wood Auditorium at Avery Hall. Mario Gooden, Professor of Professional Practice at GSAPP; and Ziad Jamaleddine, Assistant Professor at GSAPP, will participate in a conversation with Sumayya Vally as part of the event.
Sumayya Vally’s design, research, and pedagogical practice is searching for expression for hybrid identities and territory, particularly for African and Islamic conditions. Her design process is often forensic, and draws on the aural, performance, the supernatural, and the overlooked as generative places of history and work. This is best demonstrated in the Islamic Arts Biennale, an initiative spearheaded by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, which she artistically directed.
The Kenneth Frampton Endowed Lecture Series is a premier annual lecture given at Columbia GSAPP by a distinguished architect scholar honoring Ware Professor Emeritus Kenneth Frampton for his lifetime of teaching and research. Speakers deliver public lectures addressing some of the key issues central to Professor Frampton’s thinking about the field of architecture. The Kenneth Frampton Lecture was established in 2010 by a generous group of Columbia GSAPP alumni and friends.
Image Credit: Islamic Arts Biennale photographed by Marco Cappalletti.
