Barefoot in Sri Lanka

The Barefoot Centre was founded by craftswoman and entrepreneur Barbara Sansoni. She published her first book on Sri Lankan architecture in 1978, under the Barefoot imprint, called Vihares & Verandas Ceylon. This list includes books edited or written by women about architecture that are on sale via the bookshop she founded.

Women Writing Architecture, Barefoot Centre

20 August, 2025

Geoffrey Bawa Manning – Decolonizing Architecture

Geoffrey Bawa Drawing from the Archives

The Architecture of an Island

Vihares & Verandas Ceylon

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Erandi de Silva on Geoffrey Bawa

Gentleness

In The Power of Gentleness, French philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle describes gentleness as a radical act of courage. Nænne is also about courage, about courage’s discomfort. I look out over the rooftops and hear the architecture of the city whisper: we cannot bear to tell the truth about our massive CO2 emissions. We don’t dare to […]

Elisabeth Gellein

30 June, 2025

On Freedom. Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

Toward A Minor Architecture

The Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living

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Elisabeth Gellein on Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture Elisabeth Gellein on Toward a Minor Architecture

On success

I believe that the most accessible way to give you, dear readers, an idea of what you’ll find in this reading list is to roughly sketch out the introduction I gave at a workshop on success that I ran in Ennenda. I told the participants: The topic success emerged when we started thinking about value, […]

Women Writing Architecture, Tatjana Blaser

7 June, 2025

The Triumphant Progress of Market Success

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

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Sense, Sensibility and the Terms of Failure

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May Bi on Room at the Top Erandi de Silva on Room at the Top Katia Broz on Room at the Top Anna Rothstein on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Camilla Alves Nunes Köppel on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Dimitri Bleichenbacher on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Laura Oberholzer on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Léa De Piccoli on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction  Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Alessia Bertini on L’arte delle gioia

The Weather

Over the last year, I have been always more aware of the weather as an aspect of architecture – as an abstract concept that features in concerns around climate change, usually catastrophic, apocalyptic even, that creates a sense of dread without a way of escaping it, but also as a lived phenomenon, very personal and […]

Helen Thomas

24 April, 2025

Weather and the City. How Design Shapes the Urban Climate

The Living Mountain

The Weather

Light

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Alicia Ayla Yerebakan on The Living Mountain Arianna Melchiorri on The Living Mountain Emma Kleinbölting on The Living Mountain Helen Thomas on The Living Mountain Yosuke Nakamoto on The Living Mountain Mona Dillier on The Living Mountain Matthew Phillips on Air as Medium Jihyeong Lee on The Silent Spring Oliver Canins, Kim Gubbini, Victoria Jabbour on Cold Enough for Snow

NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water

Since 2023, Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore have been running NEW ORDER, a design studio for masters students at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, assisted by Fanny Nöel and Simone Turkewitsch. Each year, students engage with a loose theme that is principally defined and evoked through a list of books – the fictional space […]

Clancy Moore

22 April, 2025

The River

Cold Enough for Snow

Piranesi

The Sea Wall

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Laura Evans on Purple Hibiscus Friederike von Rauch on Piranesi Laura Evans and Finian Reece-Thomas on Purple Hibiscus Albert Jiménez Rodríquez on Swing Time Elena Gallo and Tahnee Rutter on Swing Time Dawid Roszkowski and Dongyong Oh on Purple Hibiscus Oliver Canins, Kim Gubbini, Victoria Jabbour on Cold Enough for Snow

On motherhood

This collection is made to accompany the March Equinox edition of Insights, Women Writing Architecture’s newsletter. We welcome any suggestions for citations, and definitions to add to the Glossary (editors@womenwritingarchitecture.org) below the two definitions so far: A Glossary definition and its limitations Motherhood can be defined as the state or experience of being a mother, […]

Women Writing Architecture

16 March, 2025

PILLARS OF HOME

Family and Governance: How Population Became a Matter of Politics

Claiming Public Space: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Sputiamo su Hegel

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Annamaria Prandi on Sputiamo su Hegel Ellis Woodman on Baggage Yagmur Kültür on Kuskus Huiyao Fu on Eva Hesse: Lost for Words and Louise Bourgeois: Conversation with Frances Morris Fiona Hatz on Motherhood according to Giovanni Bellini Tatjana Blaser on The Argonauts Tatjana Blaser on Ma mère rit Loudreaders on Founding the Feminist Utopia Stéphanie Dadour on The Handmaid’s Tale Rebecca Siefert on The Dignity of Resistance

The 11th Book : Episode 18

In episode 18 of ‘The 11th Book’, a reading room produced by Curating Architecture Collective Seoul, architect Ryul Song was asked to select 10 important books that are central to her practice as an architect, writer, editor and curator, and to tell the stories surrounding them. At the end, she was asked to imagine an […]

Ryul Song, Curating Architecture Collective Seoul

11 February, 2025

The Yellow Wallpaper

Fear of Flying

Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln

Gordon Matta-Clark

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Zofia Hansen in Szumin

Since 2013, CENTRALA (Gosia Kuciewicz and Simone De Iacobis) have been custodians of the architecture of a living monument—Oskar and Zofia Hansen’s house in Szumin, which is under the care of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and open to the public. This summer house belonged to these important Polish architects, and is a […]

Centrala

23 January, 2025

Zofia Hansen

Zofia and Oskar Hansen

Oskar and Zofia Hansen House in Szumin

Oskar and Zofia Hansen – The Grammar of Displays

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Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Wera Meyer-Waldeck (WM-W) (Dresden 1906 – Bonn 1964) estudió desde 1927 hasta 1932 con los tres directores de la Bauhaus y de todos se llevó enseñanzas que más tarde aplicaría en su vida profesional. Sus trabajos fin de carrera consistieron en proyectar una escuela infantil y un colegio de ocho aulas, insertos dentro de la […]

Josenia Hervás y Heras

16 December, 2024

Las mujeres de la Bauhaus

Die Neuen kommen! : weibliche Avantgarde in der Architektur der zwanziger Jahre

Bauhaus- und Tessenow-Schülerinnen. Genderaspekte im Spannungsverhältnis von Tradition und Moderne

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

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Carmen Espegel on Mujeres de la Bauhaus, de lo bidimensional al espacio total

Livraria Megafauna – A bookshop selection

Located on the ground floor of the iconic Copan building in downtown São Paulo, Livraria Megafauna opened its doors in November 2020. Managed by a team of professionals from the publishing and literary worlds, the bookstore aims to redefine what a bookstore can be. Positioned as a hub for reflection, curation, and creative engagement, Megafauna […]

Livraria Megafauna, Estelle Gagliardi

25 November, 2024

Casa Butantã – Paulo Mendes da Rocha

Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat

Isabela Ferrari Rey Carneiro on Megafauna Bookshop

ISBN+ – A bookshop selection

ISBN+ is a contemporary art centre and specialised bookshop with the aim of making contemporary visual culture more accessible and comprehensible. ISBN+ serves not only as a hosting venue but also as a genuine meeting point where creators, artworks, and independent art publications converge. Independent Publications ISBN+ is dedicated to exploring, collecting, exhibiting, and distributing […]

ISBN +, Estelle Gagliardi

25 November, 2024

Private Views: A High-Rise Panorama of Manhattan

After Dreams; I dare to Defy the Damage

PILLARS OF HOME

balaton off season – amikor a magyar tenger partja kiürül

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Researching Encounters

ENCOUNTERS is a collaborative bookwork about Umbrella House, Kazuo Shinohara’s smallest residential building. Built in Tokyo in 1961, Umbrella House was recently saved from demolition and reconstructed at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It represents a pivotal moment in Shinohara’s career as he began moving away from decorative concerns towards his search […]

Michaela Nettell

8 November, 2024

The Domestic Space Reader

Atlas of Emotion – Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film

The Umbrella House Project

Inhabiting Pictures: On Luisa Lambri’s Artistic Practice

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Matéria Prima – A bookshop selection

Matéria Prima is an independent store based in Porto, Portugal, offering a curated selection of records, books, magazines, zines, and organizing music events. Our focus is broad and inclusive, encompassing diverse and experimental perspectives, with a strong commitment to making cultural materials accessible to a wide audience. We support innovative artists, musicians, independent labels, and […]

Matéria Prima, Estelle Gagliardi

29 October, 2024

Quem te Ensinou? – Ninguém

Escola Infinita

Juice

Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism

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Can Writing Be Activism?

As part of the Parity Talks : Get Your Act Together! Studio Adam Caruso and Women Writing Architecture hosted a workshop on 8th March 2023 at the ONA DiD Lab at ETH Zurich. The workshop began with the crucial question: “Can writing be activism?” Our starting point is that no, it cannot, unless it is […]

Women Writing Architecture, ETH Zurich Studio Caruso, Helen Thomas, Alicia Ayla Yerebakan

2 October, 2024

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Eight Theses on Feminist Revolution

Manifesto for Maintenance Art

Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction  Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Helen Thomas, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism? Emilie Appercé on Maintenance Art Lucia Bernini, Jonas Heller, Florian Reisner, Sofia Gloor on Manifesto for Maintenance Art

Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature

The history of architecture is intimately intertwined with how humans perceive and interact with nature. Much in the way that houses are built to protect us from a wild nature and windows are designed to bring elements of nature indoors, architecture has evolved in response to our relation to the natural world. However, nature is […]

Seonju Kim

19 August, 2024

Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design

The Mushroom at the End of the World

Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World

Notions of Nature and a Model for Managed Urban Wilds

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Jan Schweizer, Nicolas Schwegler, Yiran Zhang and Severin Ziegler on The Mushroom at the End of the World Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Jihyeong Lee on The Silent Spring Guktae Lim on Can the Machine be an Actor? Jiyeon Moon on Notions of Nature and a Model for Managed Urban Wilds Cristina Fusco on The Mushroom at the End of the World

Architectural Theory & Gender Studies

Comprising women from all architectural backgrounds, from students to architects with 20 years experience, researchers, interior designers and landscape architects, SOFA has 30-40 members each season and runs small groups and SOFA salons. Topics are chosen by the group leaders, here is the text list for Book Club : Architectural Theory & Gender Studies, one […]

Society of Feminist Architects, Gayoun Jang

1 August, 2024

Sexuality and Space

The Modern Kitchen – Birth and Other Stories 근대부엌의 탄생과 이면

Negotiating domesticity: spatial productions of gender in modern architecture

A History of Private Life

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Roz Barr on Sexuality and Space Lisa Hadioui on Le Deuxième Sexe Pilgu Chang on The Modern Kitchen – Birth and Other Stories Gayoun Jang on The Ornamental Design of the Chosun Dynasty House

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

The issue of gender and sexuality in architecture are still themes that are questioned as being relevant, a situation that Jessica Ellen Sewell challenges in her seminar course at the University of Virginia: When I tell people that I work on gender and architecture, I often get one of two responses: “you mean like phallic […]

Jessica Ellen Sewell

25 July, 2024

Gender, Space, Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment

Who Needs the Top? An Ungentle Manifesto

‘A citizen as well as a housewife’: New Spaces of Domesticity in 1930s London

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Blanca Vives on Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Jasmine Yu on Gender Space Architecture Elizabeth Darling on Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment Sarah El Ouazzani on Who Needs the Top Annmarie Adams on Women and the Making of the Modern House Roz Barr on Sexuality and Space Alexa Sharp on Conflicting Landscape Values Justine Valois on Conflicting Landscape Values May Bi on Room at the Top Katia Broz on Room at the Top Erandi de Silva on Room at the Top Sasha Beketov on What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Estelle Gagliardi on Where Are the Women Architects? Lulu Crouzet on Throwing Like a Girl

Memories of the Women of Graubünden

Frauenkulturarchiv Graubünden is a place of refuge for us women, said Edith Freitag, a long-standing member of the association. A testimony to the cultural life of women in Graubünden Frauenkulturarchiv Graubünden – the Graubünden, or Grisons, Women’s Cultural Archive – is located at Goldgasse 10, Chur, Switzerland. It is an independent and non-profit foundation for […]

Frauenkulturarchiv Graubünden, Silke Redolfi, Women Writing Architecture, Jaehee Shin

11 July, 2024

Das Bergell: Wanderungen in der Landschaft und ihrer Geschichte

Vagabund im Morgenland

Saffa 1958 – Expo 2021: Lüftung von grossen Räumen: Form Follows Process

frauen formen ihre stadt

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Yvonne Gienal and Luis Coray on Canzun de sontga Margriata Lorena Bassi on Das Bergell 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 Silke Redolfi on Frauenleben in Graubünden Silke Redolfi on Frauen, Fische, Fjorde Jaehee Shin on frauen formen ihre stadt Silvia Hofmann on Frauen bauen Staat Carla Capaul on Annelise Leu, die Schweizer Hotelpionierin

bodymind

At women writing architecture, we are teaming up with Jessie Buckle to investigate the concept of ‘bodymind’. We will be exploring it as a glossary term through a lunchtime workshop and developing means to explore it further and weave it into further projects. In the meantime, the beginning of our definition (below) is accompanied by […]

Women Writing Architecture

2 May, 2024

Mind-body connection is built into brain, study suggests

Our Body and Mind are One

Glossary term: bodymind

The Bodymind Problem

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Disabling Environments

Disabling Architectural Environments is a collection extracted from a postgraduate thesis, ‘Disabling Architectural Environments: Absences in Architectural Conditions’, by Jessie Buckle. This is an auto-ethnographic exploration of the relationship between epilepsy, climate and the built environment.

Jessie Buckle

22 April, 2024

Queer Phenomenology Orientations, Objects, Others

Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

Humans prefer curved visual objects

Room preference as a function of architectural features and user activities

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Jessie Buckle on What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World

Bauhaus Women

This text was part of my PhD entitled Material Dramaturgy: Tracing Trails of Dust in the Architectural Design Process. It served as a preface before I delved into my research on the engagement with materials in the contemporary context of architecture. This collection you see now is somewhat different from the references I had in […]

Mara Trübenbach

10 April, 2024

The Haptics of Optics: Weaving and Photography

Bauhaus-Transfer. Die Textildesignerin Margarete Leischner in Dessau und im britischen Exil

Segelboot

Eine Malfibel für Kinder: Vom Pinselstrich bis zum Bildermalen

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Mara Trübenbach on A Hundred Years of Photography Carmen Espegel on Mujeres de la Bauhaus, de lo bidimensional al espacio total Estelle Gagliardi on Bauhaus-Frauen: Meisterinnen in Kunst, Handwerk und Design

Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9

  CAC Seoul – Curating Architecture Collective Seoul – is currently running the Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 , starting in September 2023, which extracts architectural forms contained in books and buildings and builds its own reference tower. Based on the etymology of the word ‘Galpi 갈피’, which means “a gap between or between each overlapping […]

Curating Architecture Collective Seoul

5 March, 2024

The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities

A History of Private Life

More Work for Mother

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing and Criticism

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Caroline Voet on Wanderlust: A History of Walking Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Pilgu Chang on The Modern Kitchen – Birth and Other Stories Jessie Buckle on What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World

Seen, Heard, Built

Seen, Heard, Built is an exhibition curated by the CABLE team in Shenzen, China, who contacted women writing architecture with an invitation to participate. This is how they explain their idea:

CABLE

1 March, 2024

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment

Living a Feminist Life

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

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Soo Jin Kim on A Killjoy Survival Kit Paul Grieguszies on Caliban and the Witch Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch Loudreaders on Caliban and the Witch Blanca Vives on Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Elizabeth Darling on Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment Helen Thomas on Witches and Gossip

Spazio Special Collection

Spazio bookshop in Milan sells only books, around 300 at any one time, which have been researched, then read and then chosen for the list by Mariana Siracusa. This bespoke and intimate selection by the selector has been specially collected to represent Spazio on womenwritingarchitecture.org. To listen to Mariana discuss her favourite book, visit  the […]

Spazio bookstore, Mariana Siracusa

6 January, 2024

The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion

Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

Passages in Modern Sculpture

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Mariana Siracusa on Écrire Marta Vives on Écrire Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable Mariana Siracusa on Passages in Modern Sculpture

Thinking & Writing Place

“The history of feminism is, in a sense, the history of autotheory.” Lauren Fournier, Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing and Criticism, 2021. Thinking & Writing Place – Writing as Feminist Spatial Practice was a seminar curated by Lilian Robl at the Technische Universität München in spring 2023. The production of multilayered texts that […]

Lilian Robl

23 December, 2023

Living a Feminist Life

Getting At and Into Place : Writing as Practice and Research

A Room of One’s Own

Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing and Criticism

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Soo Jin Kim on A Killjoy Survival Kit Hirante Welandawe on A Room of One’s Own Maria Conen on A Room of One’s Own Valerie Keller on A Room of One’s Own

Being a Stranger

This collection was created by Natália Peťková in preparation for the Women Writing Architecture 2-day workshop in Ennenda, Glarus, Switzerland called  ‘Being A Stranger’. Six of the books in the collection are accompanied by an annotation that connects it to the theme. Some of these can also be seen in the women writing architecture (publishing) […]

Natália Peťková

17 November, 2023

Radical. A Life of My Own

A Lover’s Discourse

Whereabouts

Transit

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Natália Peťková on A Lover’s Discourse Natália Peťková on Asylum Road Natália Peťková on Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living & Real Estate Natália Peťková on Whereabouts Jaehee Shin on Pippi Longstocking

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2023

This semester, for three weeks in a row, master and bachelor students of the Studio Caruso at the ETH Zurich meet for the reading circle. By group, they perform a text of the reader in one of the three sites studied. After which, the whole studio, including the teaching team, gathered to discuss what happened. […]

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso

8 November, 2023

Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest

The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics

The Triumphant Progress of Market Success

Charlotte Gwendolyn Arn on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Helena Bonet Muñoz on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Chiara Linsalata on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Isaac Elia Martinez on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Jingling Ding on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Kristina Lehtinen on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Lukas Buettner on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Nora Zoe Schären on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Qingyuan Wu on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Xingyu Bai on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Zhishuang Liu on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Che Facchin on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Fabian Güzelgün on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Jonas Zimmermann on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Julian Merlo on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Ladina Naegeli on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Lukas Nussbaumer on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Nicolai Dinkel on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Romina Züst on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Anna Rothstein on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Camilla Alves Nunes Köppel on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Dimitri Bleichenbacher on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Laura Oberholzer on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Léa De Piccoli on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Xiaoyu Yang on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest

Expanding Agency

This informal collection has been made by Kathleen James-Chakraborty and is based on her reading over one and a half years for an ERC project that she is leading called Expanding Agency: Women Race and the Global Dissemination of Modern Architecture The research project explores four ways in which women and ethnic minorities had an […]

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

21 September, 2023

A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid

Modern Woman – Architect

Art and Architecture in Postcolonial Africa

Greta Magnusson Grossman: Modern Design from Sweden to California

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Feminism and Architecture

Has feminism impacted architecture? asks Professor Annmarie Adams of McGill University … let’s discuss This 13-week graduate-level lecture and seminar course (ARCH 684) at McGill University covering 37 texts (only four by men) begins with this challenge. “If Architect Barbie gets us talking, then more power to her,” is the opening statement, quoted from Despina […]

Annmarie Adams

19 September, 2023

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

Le Deuxième Sexe

Battle Lines: E. 1027

Women Architects and Modernism in India Narratives and Contemporary Practices

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May Bi on Room at the Top Hannah Thiessen on A Queer Analysis of E. 1027 Sarah El Ouazzani on Who Needs the Top Elif Kurkcu on People who Live in Glass Houses Taylor Wasserman on The Labor Problem Abigail MacKenzie on Preserving Women’s History in American Libraries Sasha Beketov on What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like? Ziyi-Jorrina Cheng on Female Regulation Claudia Ng on On The Fringe Justine Valois on Conflicting Landscape Values Lisa Hadioui on Le Deuxième Sexe Anastasia Jaffray on A Feminist Arcadian Landscape Juliette Bélanger on Unforgetting Women Architects Isabel Cano on Battle Lines: E.1027 Katia Broz on Room at the Top Alexa Sharp on Conflicting Landscape Values Nuoya Fang on Domesticity, Gender, and Architecture Olivia Janiszewski on Suffrage City Erica Vinson on Preserving Women’s History in American Libraries Maria Lederer on Interiors: nineteenth-century essays Jasmine Yu on Gender Space Architecture Danna Nishmas on Fear in a Handful of Dust Mayyasah Akour on Women Architects and Modernism in India Wiki Women Design on Unforgetting Women Architects

Parlour Reading Room 6: Intersectional practice – a DIY manifesto

The sixth and final theme in the Parlour Reading Room series built on and wove together ideas from the previous five themes to explore existing and emerging methods for practicing intersectional feminism within built environment professions.The discussion re-visited Sarah Ahmed’s thoughts on creating a killjoy manifesto in her Living a Feminist Life and how to […]

Parlour, Anwyn Hocking, Sophie Adsett

19 August, 2023

Living a Feminist Life

How to make yourself a Feminist Design Power Tool

Only resist: a feminist approach to critical spatial practice

Soo Jin Kim on A Killjoy Survival Kit Amy Perkins on Ahmed for Architecture Students

Urban Design Group Library

The Urban Design Group, based in London, has a small library of around 200 publication titles on its website, each of which is accompanied by a review. 50 of these were written, edited or co-authored by women, and so the editors of women writing architecture have added these to the list.

Women Writing Architecture

21 July, 2023

The Human Condition

New Lives, New Landscapes

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Planning for Play

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Emily Priest on New Lives, New Landscapes Kenneth Frampton on The Human Condition

Lillemors Frauenliteratur

This collection is created to celebrate the journey of Andrea Gollbach and Uschi Neubauer, managing directors of Lillemors bookshop in Munich, who retire in June 2023. The book lists that they have put together over the years for Lillemors since 1975 will be presented to the Munich authorities who will create an archive, thus preserving […]

Lillemor’s Frauenbuchladen, Women Writing Architecture, Jaehee Shin

24 April, 2023

Die Geschichte von Zeb

The Handmaid’s Tale

Gabriel

Jane Eyre

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Valerie Keller on A Room of One’s Own Maria Conen on A Room of One’s Own Hirante Welandawe on A Room of One’s Own Anne-Marie Armstrong on Orlando Tatjana Blaser on Orlando Stéphanie Dadour on The Handmaid’s Tale Anne-Marie Armstrong on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales

Resident artist at Plas Brondanw in rural North Wales, Siw Thomas talks to Helen Thomas about the writer Amabel Williams-Ellis, the importance of self-education and writing in her life, and making space for her creative work within the traditional women’s role managing family and home. Siw speaks of Williams-Ellis’ relationship with her husband Clough Williams-Ellis, […]

Siw Thomas

17 April, 2023

Good Citizens

All Stracheys are Cousins

The Art of Being a Woman

The Pleasures of Architecture

The Author Speaks

Each episode of The Author Speaks (T-A-S) series is a short interview where we find out a little about the approach and inspirations of different female producers of text, focussing each time on one of their works. Our circle of guests extends globally to women that in some way or another, engage with an idea […]

Women Writing Architecture, Mindy Seu, Frida Grahn, Elke Krasny, Ella Eßlinger, Clara Richard Gostynski, Emilie Appercé, Helen Thomas, An Fonteyne

14 April, 2023

Cyberfeminism Index

Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes

Living with an Infected Planet. COVID-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care

Anna Göldin. Letzte Hexe

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Our understanding of how urban designers and architects can design cities is still largely shaped by Western urban conditions and perspectives. In particular, the European city, with its steady and controlled growth, has long served as the backdrop against which new urban design methods and tools have been developed. As scholars who advocate a decentring […]

Cathelijne Nuijsink

7 March, 2023

Theory from the South

The 21st-Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory

Ordinary Cities : Between Modernity and Development

Claiming their right to possess

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Adhrita Roy on Seen From The South

Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat

These texts by women were instrumental within a studio teaching semester in the Chair of Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich. To find out more, see the annotations in the Glossator ‘Insights into Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat‘.

Adam Caruso

2 March, 2023

Narrative Time: the question of the Gates of Hell

X Marks the Spot

Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser

Louise Lawler (October Files #14)

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Cyberfeminism Index

This list was selected by Mindy Seu from her book Cyberfeminism Index during her extensive tour across the world to mark its publication. The online version of Seu’s work was a treasured reference for the Women Writing Architecture team when we were conceptualising the brief and presence of our project, so we are happy to […]

Mindy Seu

23 February, 2023

Simians, Cyborgs and Women

Testo Junkie

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

Cyberfeminism Index

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Linda Sjoqvistand and Paul Grieguszies on Testo Junkie Thomas Rohrer on Testo Junkie Mindy Seu on Testo Junkie Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction  Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Tatjana Blaser on Glitch Feminism Helen Thomas, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism?

The Book Society List

How is ‘a book’ defined? Is it delimited by the processes of publishing: through binding and printing, or can the physical boundaries that contain content be loosened? The Book Society is a bookshop and publishing house founded by Helen Ku and Kyungyong Lim in 2010. With curator Jeongyeon Koo they seek to expand the book’s […]

The Book Society, Women Writing Architecture

28 January, 2023

The New Woman’s Survival Catalog

Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto

Piles of Earth and Rubble : München / Gyeongju

Building Critique : Architecture and its Discontents

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Tatjana Blaser on Glitch Feminism Emilie Appercé on the New Woman’s Survival Catalog Malgeum Kim on The Story of the Shell Malgeum Kim on Love and Ambition

After 8 recommends

The following collection consists of recent books by women that can be found at the After 8 Books in Paris.     After 8 book is one of several constellations that have contributed to the selection of books that are on sale at Madame ETH. It can be found at the kiosk K67 in the […]

After 8 Books

16 January, 2023

Pisti, 80 rue de Belleville

Neïl Beloufa: People Love War Data & Travels

Edith Heath: Philosophies

Diplodocus

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Parity in History?

During the course of the semester, students were required to carry out a process of active reading, which has been described in depth in the article ‘Reading-With: A Collaborative Method for Inclusive Architectural Histories (scroll down for abstract). This deep engagement with historical texts is being developed by Dr. Anne Hultzsch and Dr. Sol Pérez […]

Anne Hultzsch

6 December, 2022

Journal of a Residence in Chile, During the Year 1822 and a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Tagebuch eine Reise durch die Schweiz

Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies

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Anne Hultzsch on Journal of a Residence in Chile Adrienne Enz on Life in Mexico Xinghe Guo on Life in Mexico Monika Grabski on Life in Mexico Maria Vittoria Giani on Life in Mexico Valmira Haziri on Life in Mexico Martin Kohlberger on An Historical and Moral View Corinne Räz on An Historical and Moral View Amélie Lambert on An Historical and Moral View Michael Tan on An Historical and Moral View Anouk Fischer on Vindication of the Rights of Men Lea Graziani on Vindication of the Rights of Men Laia Meier on Residence in Chile Miranda Reynolds on Residence in Chile Carolina Catarino Gomes on Residence in Chile Stefania Archilli on Residence in Chile Zofia Krupa on Between the Landscape and Confinement Elena Rieger on Between the Landscape and Confinement Caroline Voet on Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Youlhwadang Book Museum

It was a day of heavy rain during the summer of 2022. When I arrived, drenched, at the Youlhwadang Book Museum, chief editor Soojung Yi and chief curator Hye-Gyoung Chung warmly welcomed me in. Youlhwadang is located in Paju Book City, a place about an hour away from Seoul by bus inhabited by a group […]

Youlhwadang, Soojung Yi, Jaehee Shin

19 October, 2022

Flowers and Folk-Lore from far Korea

The Girl From the Marsh Croft

Food Recipes 朝鮮料理製法

The Orchid Door

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Soojung Yi on Potato Flowers

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

The Anglo Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899. Her first seven winters were spent in the city that she describes as “a bold Italianate plan in tricky Celtic light”. The city left a profound mark on her sensibility, with its “climatic moodiness” where “all stood for stability”; it was a city […]

Gerard Carty

17 October, 2022

Bowen’s Court

Seven Winters

The Shelbourne Hotel

The Last September

Gerard Carty on Bowen’s Court Gerard Carty on Seven Winters Gerard Carty on The Shelbourne Hotel

S AM Publications

In the summer of 2022, Women Writing Architecture requested a list of publications from the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel for the compilation of this collection. Out of a total of 80 publications in conjunction with the S AM exhibition, 32 publications are written by female authors. This is closely related to Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus, […]

S AM Swiss Architecture Museum

14 October, 2022

Peter Heman 1919-2001: Architektur Photographie

Der Preis des Architekturmuseums Basel 1999: an Friedrich Achleitner, Wien

Der Preis des Architekturmuseums Basel 2002: an Bernd und Hilla Becher, Düsseldorf

Melchior Berri 1801-1854: Architekt des Klassizismus

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Liang Cheng Chung on Anna Viebrock

in:dépendance at Furka Pass

During the summer of 2022, the chair of Jan de Vylder at ETH Zurich began a 3-year experiment at the Furka Pass in Switzerland (in:dépendance), 2429 m above sea level and only accessible 4 months a year. Responding to their invitation for proposals for short residences, Women Writing Architecture was represented by Helen Thomas, born […]

Helen Thomas, Emilie Appercé, Jaehee Shin, Women Writing Architecture

1 October, 2022

Genji monogatari 源氏物語

The Tale of Genji 新編日本古典文学全集 20: 源氏物語

Genji Monogatari 겐지모노가타리

The Multifaceted World of Japanese Narrative Art: An Introduction

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Simona Mele, Julius Schwartz, Luca Bronca on The Tale of Genji

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

This collection has been compiled from a reading list by co-director Tine Milz at Theater Neumarkt, who contributed to Episode 2 : A book I love.   Who created and wrote the world we live in? Feminism is pretty often intricately linked to Sexism, Racism, Gender, and Politics. The third Chapter brings us closer to the way […]

Tine Milz

26 August, 2022

Women, Culture & Politics

Transforming Whiteness in Art Institutions

Maso and Miso in the Land of Men’s Rights

Editorial

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Roz Barr on Agnes Martin Jaehee Shin on Dictee Hirante Welandawe on A Room of One’s Own Maria Conen on A Room of One’s Own Loudreaders on Parable of the Sower Loudreaders on The Dispossessed Maria Conen on Why have there been no Great Women Artists? Valerie Keller on A Room of One’s Own Anoma Pieris on Borderlands/La Frontera and Can the Subaltern Speak? Soo Jin Kim on A Killjoy Survival Kit Lisa Hadioui on Le Deuxième Sexe

A Book I Love

Each episode of A Book I Love (A-B-I-L) is a conversation around a book that is special to one of the speakers. It is a companion text, in the words of Sara Ahmed, that in some way or another intersects with an idea of architecture. Episode 1: The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd, chosen by Helen […]

Women Writing Architecture, Emilie Appercé, Helen Thomas, Geraldine Tedder, Alicia Ayla Yerebakan, Mariana Siracusa, Tine Milz, Paul Grieguszies Schäfer, Linda Sjøqvist, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Laura Evans, Jaehee Shin, Ji Min An

13 July, 2022

The Living Mountain

Real Estate

The Island of Missing Trees

Purple Hibiscus

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Alicia Ayla Yerebakan on The Living Mountain Helen Thomas on The Living Mountain Laura Evans on Purple Hibiscus Laura Evans and Finian Reece-Thomas on Purple Hibiscus Mindy Seu on Testo Junkie Annamaria Prandi on King Kong Theorie Linda Sjoqvistand and Paul Grieguszies on Testo Junkie Thomas Rohrer on Testo Junkie Emma Kleinbölting on The Living Mountain Mona Dillier on The Living Mountain Arianna Melchiorri on The Living Mountain Yosuke Nakamoto on The Living Mountain Jan Schweizer, Nicolas Schwegler, Yiran Zhang and Severin Ziegler on The Mushroom at the End of the World Cristina Fusco on The Mushroom at the End of the World

Loké

Loké excerpt The list is composed of selections made by participants in Loké and it’s predecessor, BI, which is discussed in the conversation between Erandi de Silva, editor of Loké, and Helen Thomas, editor at Women Writing Architecture: Helen Thomas: The origins of Loké lie in a project you started over ten years ago, called […]

Erandi de Silva

26 June, 2022

The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect

Women, Race & Class

An Autobiography

The God of Small Things

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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 Erandi de Silva on Pandemic is a Portal Erandi de Silva on Room at the Top Barbara Thüler on Having Words Laura Evans and Hiyala Shafeeq on The God of Small Things Erandi de Silva on An Autobiography Adhrita Roy on Pandemic Is a Portal and Azadi Katia Broz on Room at the Top May Bi on Room at the Top

What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates

What do buildings mean? This questioning of the subject has always been a less straightforward issue in architecture than in painting or sculpture. An iconography of painting can be relatively direct. A woman depicted with an iron studded wheel while clutching a martyr’s palm is St. Catherine, an image rendered with personal and historic moment […]

Matthew Critchley

26 May, 2022

Making Feminist Memories: Woman in Art: From Type to Personality by Helen Rosenau

Architecture and the French Revolution: Jean Jacque Lequeu

Historical Aspects of the Vitruvian Tradition in Town Planning

Vision of the Temple

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Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory

CMYK current titles/2022

This collection was put together by the Women Writing Architecture editors, who analysed and gathered the titles of books written or edited by women that appeared within the Architecture and Landscape Design section of CMYK’s online shop. Out of 263 titles we found 89 female-authored publications, which constitute this collection. For more check out @CMYK_BOOKSTORE

CMYK Bookstore, Women Writing Architecture

19 May, 2022

Architecture for Health

Where Architects Sleep

Santiago Calatrava: Drawing, Building, Reflecting

50 Favourite Houses By Frank Lloyd Wright

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Hochparterre on Frauen in der Architektur