Writing | SOFIA KARIM

Sofia Karim

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...

Sofia Karim

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...

Sofia Karim

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...

Sofia Karim

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...

Sofia Karim

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...

Sofia Karim

Language

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

Sofia Karim

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...

Sofia Karim

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...