“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

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-...

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/

“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.