@sophielovell.com
Writer, editor, food systems thinker, co-founder of studio_lovell and The Common Table @thecommontable.eu and author of books like "Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible". Principally just trying to learn to ask better questions.
Read my interview for the issue with her here: www.sophielovell.com/category/art...
Back in 2015, we dedicated issue 37 of uncube magazine to Zaha in celebration of her 65th birthday. It included contributions by Aaron Betsky, Jonathan Bell, Bernard Tschumi, Greg Lynn, Hélène Binet, Brendan Cormier, Andreas Ruby, Robert Guy Wilson, Vladimir Belogolovsky and Patrik Schumacher...
“I’m a woman. I’m an Arab. I’m an architect. Biology and geography define the first two; the third has taken forty years of hard work... Some of the biggest difficulties that I faced were brought about not by my work, but by my existence as a woman, or as an Arab, or indeed, as an Arab Woman” Zaha
“I’m a woman. I’m an Arab. I’m an architect."
In celebration of Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (1950-2016), who would have been 75 on October 31, 2025.
“Checkpoint Charlie is littered with fast‑food chains, souvenir stalls and vacant shopfronts: little more than a deconstructed gift shop selling a deconstructed history.”
I revisited Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin for the October 2025 "Borders" issue of @social.architectural-review.com
Honoured to have my conversation with the late, great Virgil Abloh included in the #virgilabloharchive. Abloh changed design by changing access and transposing meaning and function. Go see the show “Virgil Abloh: The Codes” at #virgilabloh #offwhite #grandpalais #paris. @wallpapermag.bsky.social
This means the magazine’s 43 issues and extensive blog, a valuable and unique architectural resource for many, is no longer available or accessible. Sadly, BauNetz have thus far refused to discuss or negotiate any options for safeguarding the uncube archive. Support or suggestions welcome!
III/III From 2013 to 2016, I was editor-in-chief of uncube, an award-winning digital magazine about architecture and beyond.
In 2016, uncube’s owner, #baunetz decided to close it and took it offline in 2024, despite outcry from its extensive fan base and the editorial team’s offer to take it over.
II/III From 2013 to 2016, I was editor-in-chief of uncube, a ground-breaking and award-winning digital magazine about architecture and beyond.
Contributors included Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn, Temple Grandin, Ricardo Scofidio, Achim Menges, Paola Antonelli, Olafur Eliasson, Aaron Betsky, Indy Johar...
I/III From 2013 to 2016, I had the privilege of being Editor-in-Chief of uncube, a ground-breaking and award-winning digital magazine about architecture and beyond.
Our goal: to address topics beyond the conventional context of architectural discourse with a critical eye and an independent voice...
Can Food Design improve our relationships with food, or is it just fancy plating? OxfordFoodSymposium’ Kitchen Table & @thecommontable.eu invited Priya Mani, Sonia Massari, @fparasecoli.bsky.social, Laila Snevele, @sophielovell.com & Orlando Lovell to discuss. thecommontable.eu/food-design-...
Here is the full article online: www.architectural-review.com/essays/revis...
In the Roads issue, the AR revisits this 1970s superstructure, designed by Georg Heinrichs, Gerhard Krebs and Klaus Krebs, to wrap around a motorway.
Read the full piece on Schlangenbader Straße, or the Schlange (‘snake’), in the Roads issue, and now online 🐍
‘What you really do not notice is that a four‑lane motorway, a tributary of the A100, runs right through the middle of the building.’ 2/
‘The Schlangenbader Straße estate is surprisingly quiet. Bird song, lots of it, fills the air and with that the occasional sound of children playing,’ writes @sophielovell.com of the gigantic housing estate in Berlin’s Wilmersdorf borough. 1/
Thank you Klaus 🙏
#uncube is currently offline, but the Stuttgart Boys interview on my website.
Thanks to Georg Vrachlotis, Jurgen Paul, Justin McGuirk, DAM Archiv, Saai Archiv, Stephan Becker, Oliver Elser, Rob Guy Wilson, Irene Meissner, Fiona Shipwright, @klaustoon.bsky.social and my former uncube comrades team ✊
The issue included some never-before-seen archive material and recordings, stories interviews and testimonies from Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Cecil Balmond, Michael Hopkins, Conrad Roland, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, Werner Sobek and Arnold Walz…
“I have built little. But I have built many castles in the air”
This is a belated mini-series in celebration of what would have been the 100th birthday of the extraordinary Frei Otto, 1925-2015. Back in 2015, we did a special issue of uncube magazine (no. 33) dedicated to his work and legacy…
“Never heard of it!”
I wrote a piece for the “Roads” issue of @social.architectural-review.com about a secretive 1970s superstructure (with 4000 residents and a motorway running through it) called “The Snake” 🐍
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Featuring OMA, Mauricio Rocha, Christian Kerez, Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, El Equipo Mazzanti, TaAU, Alejandro Castro, ContraFuerte, Batlleiroig. Writing by @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social, @ollywainwright.bsky.social, @marthadillon.bsky.social, @blancapujals.bsky.social, @sophielovell.com & many more
Had such an interesting conversation with Chat GPT this morning. I think it might be radicalising ✊
Introducing the system network that is studio_lovell and @thecommontable.eu 🙂
“Since the “SEVERANCE” series is set in a strange 1960s-1990s time mix, maybe Dieter R.’s “WANDANLAGE” represents “timeless” universal domestic tech in this parallel Apple-less Lumonsphere? – a ‘quality’ placeholder for those missing Ive-team Apple products.” I wrote a thing about #severance
Save the date: Monday 17th March new text (rant) from moi on forscale.substack.com about #Severance S2, #DieterRams #Apple emotional impact vs. principles, the singularity and democracy.
Notes from a panel talk 10/10 "The Future of Democracy in America: A Conversation with The Atlantic", with @theatlantic.com writers @anneapplebaum.bsky.social George Packer & editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg. Mod. by Daniel Benjamin, President of @americanacademy.bsky.social, Berlin March 3, 2025.