Annmarie Adams on Writing About Architecture
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (2013) review of ‘Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities’, Canadian Architect, No. 4 2013, 38
17 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (2001) review ‘The Architect: Reconstructing her Practice’, Design Book Review, No. 44/45 2001, 71-73
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on North Oxford
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (2016) review ‘North Oxford’, Design Book Review, No. 31 1994
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on A City for Children
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (2016) review ‘A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and the Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950’, Planning Perspectives, December 2015, 138-140
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on Ernest Cormier
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (1991) review ‘Ernest Cormier and the Universite de Montréal’, Design Book Review, No. 22, 1991, 30-32
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on The Parlour and the Suburb
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (2007) review ‘The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic identities, class, femininity, and modernity’, Gender, Place & Culture, a Journal of Feminist Geography, 24 July 2007 (from a collection of reviews 499-511)
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on Women and the Making of the Modern House
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
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on New Households New Housing
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (1992) review ‘New Households New Housing’, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 1992, 64
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on American Home Life
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
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on Montreal, City of Water
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
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on The Spaces of the Hospital
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
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on House Life
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
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on Contested Spaces
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
16 December, 2020
Annmarie Adams on The Scottish Home
This annotation is an extract from Annmarie Adams (1996) review ‘The Scottish Home’, Material History Review, Spring 1998, 93-95
16 December, 2020
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
Liza Fior on A Little Princess
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 […]
11 December, 2020
Penelope Haralambidou on City of Ladies
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 […]
11 December, 2020
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
Marie-José Van Hee on The Dust Roads of Monferrato
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.
10 December, 2020
Marie-José Van Hee on The Female Eunuch
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 […]
10 December, 2020