1952
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1950
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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.
10 December, 2020
1977
Kari Rolfsen (illustrator)
1987
2021
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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 […]
19 December, 2021
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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1927
2014
1985
Women Architects Committee RIBA (publisher)
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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 […]
16 December, 2021
1999
1935
2021
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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 […]
20 November, 2021
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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2010
2021
2021
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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.
15 June, 2021
1978
2020
2002
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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 […]
21 July, 2021
2012
1997
1969
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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 […]
28 February, 2021
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2019
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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 […]
26 April, 2022
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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2019
2017
Sabine Weissler Mary Pepchinski (editor)
2012
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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
16 December, 2020
2017
Cloé Pitiot (editor)
2005
2010
2017
2006
2020
2019
2008
1992
2018
Johanna Diehl Niklas Maak
2014
Christine Cipriani Peter McMahon
2007
2021
1958
2017
1984
A tree with deep roots (editor)
2015
2014
2020
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Elizabeth Darling (editor) Nathaniel Robert Walker (editor)
2020
2018