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Marie-José Van Hee on Geschichte der Gartenkunst
I read this book in German to document my graduation thesis (1974) at the architecture school. It is a reference book on gardens starting from the Egyptian era up until the early twentieth century.

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Decoratoresses
This list was made spontaneously by Pablo Bronstein on encountering Women Writing Architecture, responding to but not entirely reflecting his idea of Lady Decoratoresses. Curious about the reasons that many female designers reside in the shadowy corners of books written about male architects and designers, this list suggests some of the historical names that occurred […]
The Decoration of Houses
Footprints, an Autobiography
Sister, a biography of Sister Parish
Sixty Years of Interior Design: The World of McMillen

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Eric Crevels on Canteiros da Utopia
Silke Kapp is a professor of Architecture and Urbanism in the Escola de Arquitetura of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The book Canteiros da Utopia, whose title can be translated as Construction Sites of Utopia, is the result of her Post-doc research in Urban Sociology from the Bauhaus Universiteit […]
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Im Gespräch: Annemarie Burckhardt und Beate Schitter
In the spring of 2011, Reto Geiser and Martino Stierli, lecturers for architectural criticism at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, ran a seminar course focused on the making and collecting of oral histories. During this time, their students met and interviewed figures from the Swiss architectural scene, seeking to locate their position within the […]
Beate Schnitter in conversation with Elina Müller and Hanna Kuby
Annemarie Burckhardt in conversation with Li Tavor and Regula Schweizer
Moderne Architektur in der Schweiz seit 1900
Der Falsche Documenta Katalog
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Anne-Marie Armstrong on Orlando
This novel describes architecture and space very vividly. Architecture here serves as metaphors or to emphasize moments of action in the story, rooms or spaces sometime take on human qualities to reinforce the protagonist’s state of being.

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The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library
This slowly-growing collection was initiated as part of the gta (ETH Zürich) exhibition The Power of Mushrooms – Berta Rahm’s Pavilion for the Saffa 58. The collective intelligence of fungi acted as a model to conceive the Growing Library, an inventory of books and texts from and about FTIQ* architects and feminist topics to collectively create […]
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Despina Stratigakos on Architecture in the Family Way
In Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900, Annmarie Adams explores the middle-class home in nineteenth century England as a battleground among health reform minded women, doctors, and architects. Middle-class women positioned themselves as the healers of houses, which Victorians considered toxic and disease-ridden, and thus a potential mortal danger to their […]
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Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis
The fifth Parlour Reading Room collection considers the climate crisis through an intersectional lens, imagining our “still possible shared futures” (Osborne, 2018, 148). The collection highlights the need to undo dominant concepts of nature, the politics of failure for the politically depressed, the impact of Climate Change on Indigenous communities and whether the equal representation […]
To undo nature; on refusal as return
For still possible cities: a politics of failure for the politically depressed
Not passive victims: Indigenous Australians respond to climate change
Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources
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Annmarie Adams on Demons of Domesticity
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (2006) review ‘Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry 1889-1939’, American Historical Review, December 2006, 1602-1603