Sophie Lovell is a writer, editor and educator in the fields of architecture, design and food thinking. Together with her daughter Orlando, she is the co-founder of studio_lovell, which offers transformative strategic context-building. They are also both the founders of The Common Table a publishing platform dedicated to food futures and systemic change. Born in London, Sophie graduated in Biology from Sussex University, and Design from Chelsea College of Art & Design before moving to Berlin in 1994. She was Editor-in-Chief of the pioneering digital architecture magazine uncube from 2013-2016 and the Germany Editor of Wallpaper* magazine from 2000 to 2022. From 2002-04 she was also the Architecture and Design Editor of the lifestyle magazine Qvest and from 2012-13 she was Executive Editor of the German design magazine form. In 2016 she co-founded the & beyond publishing collective whose work includes Archifutures – a six-volume “field guide to the future of architecture” series published by dpr-barcelona. Sophie has written and edited a number of other books and is perhaps best known as the author of the monograph Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible, published by Phaidon Press (2011, 2024). She also featured in Gary Hustwit’s 2019 documentary film “Rams”.
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