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Title
Year
Author
Online article
Travel

Greater Accra and Cape Coast

2014
Amber N. Wiley
Article
Shared space

My kind of town. Accra.

2005
Lesley Lokko
Article
Shared space

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s colourful high-rise in Accra

2017
Joana Lazarova
Article
Women as architects

Mae-ling Lokko

2021
Harriet Thorpe
Article
Contact zones

What is shared about African modernism? What is African about modern heritage?

2022
Immaculata Abba
Article
Women as architects

Dominique Petit-Frère

2023
Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye
Article

Super Limbo; by Limbo Accra

2024
Luisa Nannipieri
Article
Critique

Accra Community Centre; Architects: Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

2025
Lois Quartey Julia Gallagher
Book
Shared space

Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra

2024
Jennifer Hart
Book
Domesticity

Landlords and lodgers : socio-spatial organization in an Accra community

2008
Deborah Pellow
Book
Contact zones, Shared space

African Modernism: The Architecture of Independence: Ghana, Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia

2015
Ingrid Schröder (editor) Julia Jamrozik (editor) Manuel Herz (editor) Hans Focketyn (editor)
Book
Construction, Vernacular

Architecture in Northern Ghana: A Study of Forms and Functions

2023
Labelle Prussin
Article
Domesticity, Shared space

Urban Models, Building Types and Estate Transformations: An analysis of the public housing estates of Nairobi, Accra, Douala, and Lomé

Pauline M. Bezemer
Online article
Contact zones, Shared space

Modernist Architecture in Ghana: Shifting Focus to the Names That Really Matter

2024
Nana Ama Owusu-Ansah
Online article
Vernacular, Ways of thinking

Whose Style? Taste, Class, and Power in Accra’s Architecture

2019
Kuukuwa Manful
Fiction, Online article
Domesticity

A Time To Be Stubborn

2022
Akorfa Dawson
Online article

The Sugar Babies in the Accra Town Hall

2022
Fauziyatu Moro
Film, Online article
Contact zones

Franklin House, Accra 17th Century

2021
Divine Fiave Selorm Afeke
Online article
Oral history, Shared space

The Evolution of Adedainkpo, Old Accra

2021
Akotowaa Ofori Lawrencia Amartey
Film, Online article
Domesticity, Shared space

GAEC Residence, 1960s

2021
Divine Fiave Alice Johnson
Online article
Contact zones

The Accra Post Office

2020
Kuukuwa Manful
Film, Online article
Contact zones, Shared space

Accra in the 1950s

2020
Kuukuwa Manful
Online article
Construction, Shared space

Building in Accra: 1957

2020
Kuukuwa Manful Lois Quartey Elton Kwei
Online article
Construction, Shared space

Accra: Architecture and Construction in the 1950s

2020
Kuukuwa Manful Lois Quartey Elton Kwei
Online article
Contact zones

“Afropean Architecture” in Accra

2021
Selorm Afeke
Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte
Online article
Vernacular

Social and Ecological Architecture for Humanity

2021
Yasmeen Lari
Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte
Book
Utopia, Ways of thinking

The Origins of Totalitarianism

1951
Hannah Arendt
Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte
Article
Utopia, Ways of thinking

The Rights of Man: What Are They?

1949
Hannah Arendt
Book
Life work, Ways of thinking

Kırmızı Kahverengi Defter turkish

1993
Nilgün Marmara
Yagmur Kültür on Kırmızı Kahverengi Defter
Barefoot in Sri Lanka
Book
Critique, Shared space, Ways of thinking

Walk Like an Elephant: The Island Essays 2022-2023

2024
Laleen Jayamanne
Barefoot in Sri Lanka
Book, Fiction
Cultivated land, Environment­alism

Ravana’s Lanka

2024
Sunela Jayewardene
Barefoot in Sri Lanka
Book, Fiction
Life work

Plastic Emotions

2019
Shiromi Pinto
Barefoot in Sri Lanka
Book
Vernacular

Vihares & Verandas Ceylon

1978
Barbara Sansoni
Barefoot in Sri Lanka
Book
Shared space, Vernacular

The Architecture of an Island

1998
Barbara Sansoni Ronald Lewcock Laki Senanayake
Barefoot in Sri Lanka
Book
Life work

Geoffrey Bawa Drawing from the Archives

2023
Shayari de Silva (editor)
On motherhood
Online resource
Motherhood, Shared space

Artists-in-Residence-in Motherhood

2011
Lenka Clayton
Article
Women as architects

Reframing Value. Japanese Women Architects in the 20th Century de

2023
Kana Ueda Noemí Gómez Lobo
Nele Rickmann on Reframing Value. Japanese Women Architects
Article
Domesticity, Life work, Women as architects

A Dwelling Manifesto for Rebuilding Japan de

2023
Kana Ueda Noemí Gómez Lobo
Nele Rickmann on A Dwelling Manifesto for Rebuilding Japan
Book
Life work

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 nl

1981
Etty Hillesum
Clara Maria Puglisi on An Interrupted Life
Gentleness
Book
Gentleness, Ways of thinking, Writing

Architecture and the Text: The (S)crypts of Joyce and Piranesi

1995
Jennifer Bloomer
Gentleness
Book
Gentleness

The Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living

2018
Anne Dufourmantelle Vincent Sallé (translator) Katherine Payne (translator)
Picture Book
For children

A Casa da doutora Farnsworth pt

2018
Joana Couceiro Mariana Rio (illustrator)
Joana Ribeiro on Casas com nome
Picture Book
For children

A Casa do senhor Malaparte pt

2015
Joana Couceiro Mariana Rio (illustrator)
Joana Ribeiro on Casas com nome
Dissertation
Domesticity

Habitabilidade do espaço doméstico : o cliente, o arquitecto, o habitante e a casa pt

2008
Ana Luísa Rodrigues
Joana Ribeiro on Casas com nome
Gentleness On success
Book
Care, Gentleness

On Freedom. Four Songs of Care and Constraint

2021
Maggie Nelson
On success
Book
Friendship, Life work

Wir hätten uns alles gesagt de

2023
Judith Hermann
On success
Book
Feminism

Old Mistresses Women, Art and Ideology

2020
Griselda Pollock Rozsika Parker
On success
Book
Ways of thinking

All About Love: New Visions

1999
bell hooks
On success
Book
Ways of thinking

La pesanteur et la grâce fr

1947
Simone Weil
On success
Poetry
Ways of thinking

The applicant

1963
Sylvia Plath