Cany Ash is a founder partner of Ash Sakula Architects. Before setting up the practice in 1994 Cany Ash worked for Green Market in New York, Leon Wolhage in Berlin, DEGW, the GLC architects department in London. 

Ash Sakula has established a reputation for working in unpromising sites and creating strong identities for creative industries clusters, education and community projects, and affordable housing projects. The practice pursues sustainability through reusing existing space intelligently, passive technologies, and innovative construction. Recently the Silvertown Housing for the Peabody Trust won the 2006 RIBA Sustainability by Design award and Tibby’s Triangle in Southwold Suffolk a project award in the 2008 Housing Design Awards. The UK Centre for Carnival Arts, an arts compound which turns itself into a street was recently completed in Luton.

She is a CABE enabler, on the Building Futures Advisory Group and external examiner at Cambridge University School of Architecture.