a studio.space is a Cape Town practice co-founded by Sunniva Viking, an architect, urban designer, and Africanist, and Tomà Berlanda, Professor of Architectural Technology at the Politecnico di Torino and Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town.
Their partnership combines four decades of lived experience in eastern and southern Africa with internationally recognised design work.
Operating at the nexus of socially engaged and transcultural design, the studio’s commitment is to experiment with a multiplicity of forms of architecture and urbanism, balancing economic and political forces.
Through spatial negotiations and interrogations, the collaborative platform seeks innovative architectural thoughts and processes, bridging cultural, social, and ethical distances between local and foreign building techniques.
