DAILY TELEGRAPH
WHITE HEAT
By Sally Brampton
Photographs by Edina Van Der Wyck
April 25th, 1998
FRAME
HOME AGAIN
by Tracey Ingram. Portraits by Andrew Meredith. July/August 2019
SOPHIE HICKS had an ace up her sleeve when developing fashion-forward retail concepts for the likes of Acne Studios, Chloé, Yohji Yamamoto and Paul Smith. Before becoming an architect, the Londoner worked for visionary fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa and as a fashion stylist for British Vogue. ‘Fashion people speak a different language,’ says Hicks, ‘but
I understand that language.’ Interested in architecture from a very young age, she made the switch ‘before becoming tired of fashion. I left on an up.’
Hicks formed SH Ltd Architects in 1990 while studying at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. With a few staff members on board, she juggled refurbishing residences with the responsibilities of motherhood. ‘It’s quite unusual to start a practice while studying, but as a mature student I could cope.’
Tom Hopes joined Sophie Hicks Architects in 2011. Maintaining the ‘unusual’ way of working she established during the days of rapid roll-outs for Chloé, Hicks and Hopes are a two-person show with multiple extras. ‘My main forte is design detailing whereas Tom’s is design for construction, but we work incredibly closely. Any support we need is farmed out to other people.’ And they’ll continue to work in this way as the studio shifts away from the retail realm and dives deeper into residences – back to where it all began.
THE GUARDIAN
AZZEDINE ALAÏA
By Sophie Hicks
April 2018
MUSE MAGAZINE
CLASSY ACT
By Marta Galli
Photographs by Timur Celikdag
Fall 2008
THE MODERN HOUSE
ARCHITECT SOPHIE HICKS ON LIFE IN HER HIDDEN CONCRETE HAVEN IN KENSINGTON
by The Modern House
Summer 2023
IGNANT
ACNE STUDIOS · SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
by Stephanie Wade
Photographs by Annabel Elston and Fabio Ongarato
October 2019
ARCHITEKTUR & WOHNEN
SOPHIES WELT
By Gesa Engelschall
Photographs by Michael Mundy
January 1997
RIBA JOURNAL
1A EARL’S COURT SQUARE
By RIBA
May 2019
ABITARE
THEATRE OF THE SENSES
Words by Luca Trombetta
Photography by Hong Kiwoong, Shin Gyo Hyo Geun
December 2025
NR
SOPHIE HICKS DISCUSSES THE FASHION INDUSTRY AND HER CAREER IN ARCHITECTURE.
by Izzy Bilkus. Photographs by Adrian Gaut, Johannes Marburg, James Drew Turner and Annabel Elston.
Winter 2021
KINFOLK MAGAZINE
4 NECESSARY EVILS – Competitiveness
By Pip Usher
Photographs by Marsý Hild Þórsdóttir
December 2016