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Book, Fiction
Companion Text, For children

A Little Princess

1905
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Liza Fior on A Little Princess
Seen, Heard, Built Thinking & Writing Place Parlour Reading Room 6: Intersectional practice – a DIY manifesto Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book
Feminism

Living a Feminist Life

2017
Sara Ahmed
Soo Jin Kim on A Killjoy Survival Kit
Conversations in Preparation
Book
Companion Text, Feminism

The Female Eunuch

1970
Germaine Greer
Marie-José Van Hee on The Female Eunuch
Book
Companion Text, Travel

The Dust Roads of Monferrato

1989
Rosetta Loy
Marie-José Van Hee on The Dust Roads of Monferrato
Book
Companion Text, Cultivated land

Geschichte der Gartenkunst de

1926
Marie-Luise Gothein
Marie-José Van Hee on Geschichte der Gartenkunst
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book chapter
Representation

The grid, the /cloud/, and the detail

1994
Rosalind Epstein Krauss
Essay
For children

Beatrix Potter’s Places

1967
Alison Smithson
Jane Hall on Beatrix Potter’s Places
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book
Food

Hungry City

2013
Carolyn Steel
Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021
Essay
Gender

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s

1987
Donna Haraway
Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
Urban Design Group Library ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book
Shared space

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

1960
Jane Jacobs
Martina Bischof on Death and Life of Great American Cities
On success Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture Loké Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)
Book chapter
Gender, Women as architects

Room at the Top, Sexism and the Star System in Architecture

1989
Denise Scott Brown Ellen Perry Berkeley (editor)
Erandi de Silva on Room at the Top May Bi on Room at the Top Katia Broz on Room at the Top
Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)
Book
Gender

Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitic

2014
Paul B. Preciado
Martina Bischof on Pornotopia
Cyberfeminism Index A Book I Love Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)
Book
Gender

Testo Junkie

2013
Paul B. Preciado
Martina Bischof on Testo Junkie Thomas Rohrer on Testo Junkie Linda Sjoqvistand and Paul Grieguszies on Testo Junkie Mindy Seu on Testo Junkie
Loké
Article
Capitalocene, Shared space

The Pandemic is a Portal

2020
Arundhati Roy
Erandi de Silva on Pandemic is a Portal Adhrita Roy on Pandemic Is a Portal and Azadi
Writing Memory
Lecture
Life work

Soane Medal Lecture

2018
Denise Scott Brown
Writing Memory
Book
Ways of thinking

The Art of Memory

1966
Frances Yates
Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory
Writing Memory
Book, Poetry
Life work

My Life

1980
Lyn Hejinian
Memories of the Women of Graubünden Madame ETH Reading Room Fantastic refuge
Book
Shared space, Utopia

Le livre de la cité des dames fr

1405
Christine de Pizan
Penelope Haralambidou on City of Ladies Katia Frey on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames Francisco Moura Veiga on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames
Book
Shared space

The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680–1820

2013
Dana Arnold
Annmarie Adams on The Spaces of the Hospital
Book
Domesticity

House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe

1999
Donna Birdwell-Pheasant (editor) Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga (editor)
Annmarie Adams on House Life
Book
Gender

Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals

2013
Lori Brown
Annmarie Adams on Contested Spaces
Book
Domesticity

The Scottish Home

1996
Annette Carruthers
Annmarie Adams on The Scottish Home
Book
Domesticity

Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 1889–1939

2004
Anne Clendinning
Annmarie Adams on Demons of Domesticity
Book
Shared space

Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History fr

2017
Michèle Dagenais
Annmarie Adams on Montreal, City of Water
Book
Domesticity

American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services

1992
Jessica Foy Thomas J Schlereth
Annmarie Adams on American Home Life
Book
Domesticity

New Households New Housing

1991
Karen Franck (editor) Sherry Ahrentzen (editor)
Annmarie Adams on New Households New Housing
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Baubibliothek ETH Zürich
Book
Domesticity

Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History

1998
Alice T. Friedman
Annmarie Adams on Women and the Making of the Modern House
Book
Domesticity

The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic identities, class, femininity, and modernity

2004
Judy Giles
Annmarie Adams on The Parlour and the Suburb
Book

Ernest Cormier and the Université de Montréal

1990
Isabelle Gournay (editor)
Annmarie Adams on Ernest Cormier
Book
Shared space

A city for children: women, architecture, and the charitable landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950

2014
Marta Gutman
Annmarie Adams on A City for Children
Book
Travel

North Oxford

1992
Tanis Hinchcliffe
Annmarie Adams on North Oxford
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Gender, Women as architects

The Architect: Reconstructing her Practice

1996
Francesca Hughes (editor)
Annmarie Adams on The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice
Book
Writing

Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities

2012
Alexandra Lange Jeremy Lange
Annmarie Adams on Writing About Architecture
Book
Domesticity

The Edwardian House: The Middle-class Home in Britain 1880-1914

1993
Helen C Long
Annmarie Adams on The Edwardian House
Book

The Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian Architecture

1990
Leslie Maitland
Annmarie Adams on The Queen Anne Revival Style
Book
Domesticity

All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890

1996
Maureen Ogle
Annmarie Adams on All the Modern Conveniences
Book
Domesticity, Feminism

Hitler at Home

2015
Despina Stratigakos
Annmarie Adams on Hitler at Home
Book
Shared space

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

1998
Nancy Tomes
Annmarie Adams on The Gospel of Germs
Book
Shared space

Freedom and the Cage: Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914

2017
Leslie Topp
Annmarie Adams on Freedom and the Cage
Book
Domesticity, Feminism

Building Domestic Liberty: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Architectural Feminism

1988
Polly Wynn Allen
Annmarie Adams on Rooms with a View
Book
Domesticity, Feminism

Living Space in Fact and Fiction

1959
Philippa Tristram
Annmarie Adams on Rooms with a View
Book

Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display

2000
Carla Yanni
Annmarie Adams on Nature’s Museums
Book
Domesticity, Life work

Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in France

2018
Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Annmarie Adams on Me and My House
Loké Madame ETH
Book
Life work, Women as architects

The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect

1998
Minnette de Silva
Erandi de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect Shayari de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect
Book
Domesticity

Alone Together: A History of New York’s Early Apartments

1990
Elizabeth Collins Cromley
Annmarie Adams on Alone Together
Book
Domesticity

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913

1980
Gwendolyn Wright
Annmarie Adams on Moralism and the Model Home
Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book

Architektinnenhistorie: zur Geschichte der Architektinnen und Designerinnen im 20. Jahrhundert: eine erste Zusammenstellung de

1987
Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes Sektion Bundesrepublik (editor)
Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Gender

Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary

1996
Sarah Wigglesworth (editor) Katerina Rüedi (editor) Duncan McCorquodale (editor)
Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Gender

The Sex of Architecture

1996
Diana Agrest (editor) Patricia Conway (editor) Leslie Kanes Weisman (editor)
Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Book
Feminism

Architecture and Feminism

1996
Debra Coleman (editor) Elizabeth Danze (editor) Carol Henderson (editor)