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Mary Norman Woods on Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
Published in 1971, Linda Nochlin’s essay was truly a clarion call. Written amidst the Second Wave of feminism, it has had many afterlives in books, journals, conferences, and course syllabi. It helped to create entire fields like women’s and queer studies. And it has resonated in disciplines and professions far beyond the arts and architecture. […]

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Finnish Women Writing
The Women who Rewrote the History of Finnish Architecture The history of Finnish architecture, like the history of architecture in general, is full of women. Although Finland was one of the first countries in the world where women could train as professional architects, for a long time these women remained in the shadows of history. […]
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Eireen Schreurs on Organicism in Nineteenth Century Architecture
I have read parts of this book by the Leiden art historian Caroline van Eck for my PhD research on material culture in architecture, and I kept picking it up because is so insightful, but also because it is written so elegantly. Each chapter is systematically set up but also refreshingly compact, and every paragraph formulates ideas you […]

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Researching Encounters
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 […]

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Reba Maybury and Lucy Mackenzie on I Love Dick
This annotation is a quote from a conversation between Reba Maybury and Lucy Mackenzie, with Marie Canet in Pervert or Detective? MAYBURY We’ve spoken about Chris Kraus’s book I Love Dick before and that we both take it very seriously. I first read this book in my early twenties when I was infatuated with someone […]