TEAM

SPACECOUNCIL is led by two founding partners – Dietmar Leyk and Dr Sonja Berthold - and maintains its main offices in Zurich and Singapore. Both partners work has been commended with a number of international awards.

Dietmar and Sonja lead a professional and dedicated team in SPACECOUNCIL and have a large network of consultants, planners and research resources, that provides a profound background for almost all kinds of future related research and design studies.

Dietmar Leyk, Dipl.-Ing. Architekt BDA
Principal and Founder

Dietmar Leyk is a registered architect. He collaborates with international premium companies and agencies, teaches and researches at renown universities like ETH Zurich, The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design / Delft University of Technology, the Singapore-ETH Centre: The Future Cities Laboratory and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) of Singapore. Dietmar has more than 25 years of experience in the fields of architecture and urban design strategies, urbanisation, high-density mixed-use cities, knowledge space architecture, campus architecture and large-scale urban projects. He has been responsible for numerous large scale interdisciplinary projects in research, development, and design. Dietmar shares design methodologies at conferences, and lectures frequently at universities, cultural institutions, and symposiums around the world.

Registered Architect (Architects Chamber Berlin), Germany
Appointed Architect for Association of German Architects (Bund Deutscher Architekten - BDA)

+65 9823 0604
+41 (0) 79 5653567
leyk@spaceouncil.com

Dr Sonja Berthold, Dipl. Architektin ETH/SIA
Principal and Founder

Dr Sonja Berthold is a registered architect and received her master-degrees in Architecture and Urban Design from ETH Zurich and the Architectural Association in London. She received a PhD from the Singapore-ETH’s Future Cities Laboratory and the National University of Singapore. With close to 20 years of architectural design, building and research experience for leading organisations, her expertise spans architectural design, sustainable urban design, design research, education, client relationship management, and comprehensive planning. Sonja shares design methodologies at conferences, and lectures frequently at universities, cultural institutions, and symposiums around the world.

SIA Registered Architect (Swiss Institute of Architects and Engineers)

+65 9694 7707
+41 (0) 79 4071150

Zuliandi Azli
Senior Designer
Architecture & Urbanism

Sonal Tavkar 
Head of Research

Pol Foreman
Senior Designer
Computational Design

Adrienne Wolff
Senior Researcher
Architecture & Urbanism