Sunil Bald
Founding Partner
studioSUMO (Design Vanguard, 2006)

Sunil Bald is an architect and educator. He is founding partner with Yolande Daniels of studioSUMO (Design Vanguard, 2007), a design research studio based in Long Island City, Queens. For 25 years, SUMO has been committed to architecture that responds to social and cultural contexts through materialized solutions that are unexpected, inventive, and engaging. SUMO’s work ranges from installations to institutional buildings and has been realized both locally and internationally. In 2015, SUMO was awarded the Annual Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Sunil is Professor Adjunct at Yale School of Architecture, where he has taught design, theory, and visualization since 2006. He served as Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Design Programs from 2017 to 2024.