Our approach is independent and collaborative. We share workflows and responsibilities, making final decisions alongside the team behind each production. This way of working has evolved through years of collaboration with outstanding partners.

Since 2014, BPP has initiated and organised collaborations with committed publishing projects*, introducing architectural and critical writing to a wider audience through our bookshop in Berlin Schöneberg. Since 2023, BPP has been operating as a publisher.

Alongside our own publishing, BPP works with authors, publishers and institutions on editorial and curatorial commissions. Editorial work ranges from developmental editing and copyediting to guest-editing entire volumes. Curatorial work assembles thematic selections of books and programmes for exhibitions, institutions and bookshops.

Browse our online shop to view our publishing projects.

We seek exceptional editorial work that is grounded in facts and well-considered speculation, drawing from a variety of disciplines.

BPP is keen to meet you – tell us about your project: info (at) bookspeopleplaces (dot) com

Peter Schmidt / Founder and Owner

*One of our first collaborations was with Fulcrum, a publishing project founded in 2011 at the Architectural Association (AA) in London that ‘explores architecture and the third millennium’. This collaboration grew into ‘Drucken Heften Laden’, an nGbK exhibition reflecting on the theory and practice of independent publishing.

During the Wohnungsfrage exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in 2015, we collaborated with the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture to present their research project and book, ‘The Art of Inequality: Architecture, Housing, and Real Estate – A Provisional Report’.

BPP has worked with a wide range of publishers to sell, distribute and present their work, including: AA Publications, adocs, Archis, Bedford Press, Berliner Hefte zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der Stadt, Birkhäuser, Camera Austria, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, DOM Publishers, dpr-barcelona, DUE, eeclectic, Half Letter Press, Inventory Press, IoA die Angewandte, Jovis, Kyklada Press, Mack,Merve, O Books, Onomatopee. Other Forms, Publication Studio, Pulp is an Architecture Circular, Real Review, Ruby Press, Set Margin, Spector Books, Sternberg Press,, The Funambulist, The LA Review of Architecture, The New York Review of Architecture, UdK, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König and ZK/U Press.