Tomá Berlanda is the co-founder of Malmö-based practice astudio.space architecture and urbanism, a professor of architectural technology at the Politecnico di Torino and an honorary research associate at the University of Cape Town.

With his collaborative practices he has produced internationally recognised design work in eastern and southern Africa, ranging from school buildings, early childhood development centres and health facilities. He has also previously served as a technical reviewer for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and a nominator for the Obel Award, and is an academic board member of the African Futures Institute.

Berlanda is a frequent contributor to The Architectural Review, recently writing about the borderlands between Italy and Slovenia, tourism infrastructure in rural Norway as well as recycled materials and the aid paradigm in the work of Collectif Saga in South Africa.