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Jan 28
7 min

Architect Zaha Hadid – A brilliant eye that chose to look the other way | Sofia Karim

Published in Shuddhashar Magazine, October 01 2019 In this Q&A, Sofia Karim discusses the architecture of Zaha Hadid. Born in Iraq, based...

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Sofia Karim

Sep 14, 2019
2 min

Essays on Architecture

Essays on Architecture - 01 I The idea came whilst I was swimming, as so many of my ideas do. When I am weightless. II If architecture is...

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Sofia Karim

Jun 23, 2019
2 min

Savar

Savar I On 24 April 2013, the Rana Plaza garments factory in Savar, Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,134. Global trade unions called it a ...

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I’m not sure I can design buildings in the language I was taught anymore.

Sofia Karim

Jun 15, 2019
1 min

I’m not sure I can design buildings in the language I was taught anymore.

The Amdani holding cell packs hundreds of prisoners in. They lie in patterns such as “ilish fish file”, knotting their bodies in ordered ...

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Sofia Karim

Jun 15, 2019
1 min

Lu Guang

No one was saying anything about China. When the photographer Lu Guang went missing in Kashgar, I wondered if we could try and help. But ...

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Sofia Karim

Jun 15, 2019
1 min

Language

I use architectural drawing as a language, not only to describe buildings but to tell the stories of my life. Censorship, secrecy, erasur...

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Ode to an Urn - Military Industrial Complex

Sofia Karim

Jun 11, 2019
5 min

Ode to an Urn - Military Industrial Complex

Published in June 2019 edition of Shuddhashar Journal I On a college trip to California many years ago, I drove through Joshua Tree Natio...

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One Hundred Days: The Ballad of Keraniganj Jail

Sofia Karim

Jun 11, 2019
1 min

One Hundred Days: The Ballad of Keraniganj Jail

Article I wrote to commemorate my uncle’s 100th day in jail, published by Bangladesh’s leading English language newspaper, The Daily Star...

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