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Sophie Lovell
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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...
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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...
November 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
“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
November 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
October 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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!
October 1, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Reposted by Sophie Lovell
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 🐍
Revisit: Schlangenbader Straße estate in Berlin, Germany, by Georg Heinrichs, Gerhard Krebs and Klaus Krebs
A superstructure designed in the 1970s with a motorway running through its core still purrs along nicely because it was built for people, not cars
www.architectural-review.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Reposted by Sophie Lovell
‘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/
June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Thank you Klaus 🙏
June 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#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 ✊
June 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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…
June 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by Sophie Lovell
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
June 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM