Personal Collections
This collection was made by four members of the Curating for Culture team: Ishita Shah, Vedika Kaushal, Fiona Evangeline and Anshula Prehar, who work alongside Shristi Sharma, and Ulhas Shelke. It was made as a post-rationalisation of the curatorial process for an exhibition called Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners organised […]
The Anna Göldi Museum in Ennenda, Switzerland, is dedicated to the promotion of and reflection on the 30 articles of human rights drafted by the UN in 1948 (The Declaration of Human Rights), to seek ways of giving them greater agency, both locally and generally. Das Anna Göldi Museum in Ennenda, Schweiz, widmet sich der […]
In episode 18 of ‘The 11th Book’, a reading room produced by Curating Architecture Collective Seoul, architect Ryul Song was asked to select 10 important books that are central to her practice as an architect, writer, editor and curator, and to tell the stories surrounding them. At the end, she was asked to imagine an […]
ENCOUNTERS is a collaborative bookwork about Umbrella House, Kazuo Shinohara’s smallest residential building. Built in Tokyo in 1961, Umbrella House was recently saved from demolition and reconstructed at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It represents a pivotal moment in Shinohara’s career as he began moving away from decorative concerns towards his search […]
CAC Seoul – Curating Architecture Collective Seoul – is currently running the Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 , starting in September 2023, which extracts architectural forms contained in books and buildings and builds its own reference tower. Based on the etymology of the word ‘Galpi 갈피’, which means “a gap between or between each overlapping […]
Seen, Heard, Built is an exhibition curated by the CABLE team in Shenzen, China, who contacted women writing architecture with an invitation to participate. This is how they explain their idea:
Understanding space as matrix is to underline space as a complex layering of ever-changing social relations. It is to disrupt the normalcy of some, whilst not necessarily stressing other or new conditions under which these social relations arise – rather altering the terms on which they are founded. Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, Ursula Mayer, muf […]
The Foyer. is Marta and Blanca Vives, sisters and architects of the inner life of the project. Their intention for participating in Women Writing Architecture is to deepen insights of the texts that they curate from a Unique Narrative angle. Unique Narrative is the orphaned step zero; the recreation of an inner world through a […]
This collection responds to the process of curating the exhibition Artek and the Aaltos and at its heart is a celebration of Aino Marsio-Aalto as a practicing architect. The Artek and the Aaltos exhibition was shown at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York between April 22 and October 2, 2016. The exhibition was accompanied […]