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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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