Personal Collections
Located on the ground floor of the iconic Copan building in downtown São Paulo, Livraria Megafauna opened its doors in November 2020. Managed by a team of professionals from the publishing and literary worlds, the bookstore aims to redefine what a bookstore can be. Positioned as a hub for reflection, curation, and creative engagement, Megafauna […]
ISBN+ is a contemporary art centre and specialised bookshop with the aim of making contemporary visual culture more accessible and comprehensible. ISBN+ serves not only as a hosting venue but also as a genuine meeting point where creators, artworks, and independent art publications converge. Independent Publications ISBN+ is dedicated to exploring, collecting, exhibiting, and distributing […]
Matéria Prima is an independent store based in Porto, Portugal, offering a curated selection of records, books, magazines, zines, and organizing music events. Our focus is broad and inclusive, encompassing diverse and experimental perspectives, with a strong commitment to making cultural materials accessible to a wide audience. We support innovative artists, musicians, independent labels, and […]
Spazio bookshop in Milan sells only books, around 300 at any one time, which have been researched, then read and then chosen for the list by Mariana Siracusa. This bespoke and intimate selection by the selector has been specially collected to represent Spazio on womenwritingarchitecture.org. To listen to Mariana discuss her favourite book, visit the […]
This collection is created to celebrate the journey of Andrea Gollbach and Uschi Neubauer, managing directors of Lillemors bookshop in Munich, who retire in June 2023. The book lists that they have put together over the years for Lillemors since 1975 will be presented to the Munich authorities who will create an archive, thus preserving […]
How is ‘a book’ defined? Is it delimited by the processes of publishing: through binding and printing, or can the physical boundaries that contain content be loosened? The Book Society is a bookshop and publishing house founded by Helen Ku and Kyungyong Lim in 2010. With curator Jeongyeon Koo they seek to expand the book’s […]
The following collection consists of recent books by women that can be found at the After 8 Books in Paris. After 8 book is one of several constellations that have contributed to the selection of books that are on sale at Madame ETH. It can be found at the kiosk K67 in the […]
This collection was put together by the Women Writing Architecture editors, who analysed and gathered the titles of books written or edited by women that appeared within the Architecture and Landscape Design section of CMYK’s online shop. Out of 263 titles we found 89 female-authored publications, which constitute this collection. For more check out @CMYK_BOOKSTORE
This collection is composed of a list of twelve favourite books sent to us by Flora Bonnemé, founder of Technè Bookshop.
In November 2021, the editors at Women Writing Architecture wrote to Metropolis bookshop asking them whether they would be interested in contributing a collection to the annotated bibliography. The book buyer, Molly, wrote back with screenshots of their running list (so probably already transformed), explaining that these describe what we call ‘sisters in architecture’ These […]
The Eureka! Touring Library is an annual project generated by JuangZong Books & Deng Yuanye, and in their words, it: brings together the world’s leading independent and academic publishing houses that are dedicated to the contents of architecture. Eureka! Touring Library showcases the best of the year’s newest publications, the private libraries of master architects, […]
This simple collection consists of recent books by women that can be found at the Copyright bookshops in Ghent and Antwerp. Some of them are accompanied by annotations written by founder Hilde Peleman.
This simple collection consists of recent books by women that can be found at the Hochparterre bookshop in Zurich. Some of them are accompanied by annotations written by the shop’s managers, Cornelia Thalmann and Anne Müller.