This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (1998) review ‘Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1998, 474-476
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (1992) review ‘New Households New Housing’, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 1992, 64
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (1994) review ‘American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services’, Material History Review, Spring 1994, 87-89
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (2019) review ‘Montreal, City of Water: An Environmental History’, Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Vol. 41 No. 1, 2019, 73-74
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (2015) review ‘The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680–1820’, Journal of Architectural Education, 69:1, 130-131
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (2000) review ‘House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe’, Journal of Family History, October 2000, 557-559
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (2013) review ‘Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals’, Times Higher Education, August 1 2013, 46
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (1996) review ‘The Scottish Home’, Material History Review, Spring 1998, 93-95
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
Liza Fior was one of the first people to contribute an annotation to Women Writing Architecture, and here she is being interrupted and joined by Helen Thomas as she talks about the idea of annotating texts during discussion about A Little Princess, with references to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series of […]
My practice-led research, entitled City of Ladies, in collaboration with research assistant John Cruwys, was presented at Domobaal gallery in London in January 2020 (Figure 1). The specific version of the text that this project interprets is part of Harley 4431, a compilation that Pizan assembled for Queen Isabeau of Bavaria between 1410–1414 and one […]
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.
By travelling to Italy throughout the 1970s, my interest in Italian literature grew. The description of the landscape and the walk up to the house have opened up my way of looking and experiencing architecture placed within the landscape.
A book I read at the beginning of the 1970s, about the time I was finishing my studies. This book doesn’t directly talk about architecture but it does explore the status of women in society and their fight for equal rights. It has supported and stimulated me to realise my ambition as a woman and […]