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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

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Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

In response to the first COVID-19 lockdown, which caused the closure of all live venues, London’s Architecture Foundation created an ambitious 100-day programme of online events (100 weekdays from Monday April 6th 2020 to Thursday August 27th 2020). The channel often showed three or four lectures, readings, films, or performances a day. One element of […]

Ellis Woodman, Rosie Gibbs-Stevenson, Women Writing Architecture
11 February, 2021

A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home

Geostories: Another Architecture for the Environment

In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism

Made Possible: Stories of Success by People with Learning Disabilities

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Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction  Adam Caruso on Memoirs of Hadrian Asli Çiçek on Memoirs of Hadrian Caroline Voet on Wanderlust: A History of Walking Helen Thomas, Alecia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism? Soo Jin Kim on The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

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Fantastic refuge

Throughout history, women have relied on places outside the mainstream in order to find a place where they can accomplish intellectual work. Sometimes these are physical places, other times they are mental constructions or propositions. This collection brings together some example citations from the Women Writing Architecture bibliography that can be used as a starting […]

Helen Thomas
17 January, 2021

Primero sueño/First Dream

The Hearing Trumpet

Le livre de la cité des dames

A City Inside

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Helen Thomas on Primero Sueño Helen Thomas on The Hearing Trumpet Penelope Haralambidou on City of Ladies Petra Gehrmann on A City Inside Maria Conen on A Room of One’s Own Hirante Welandawe on A Room of One’s Own Charlotte Malterre-Barthes on Sultana’s Dream Valerie Keller on A Room of One’s Own Julie Bovier, Lea Muttoni, Donata De Leso on Herland Francisco Moura Veiga on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames Katia Frey on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames

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, Alecia 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: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

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

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?

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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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

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 […]

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 Global 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
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, Apurva Bose Dutta
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

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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

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, Alecia 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

Space as Matrix

Understanding space as matrix is to underline space as a complex layering of ever-changing social relations. It is to disrupt the normalcy of some, whilst not necessarily stressing other or new conditions under which these social relations arise – rather altering the terms on which they are founded. Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, Ursula Mayer, muf […]

Geraldine Tedder, gta exhibitions, muf architecture/art, The Alternative School of Economics, Maria Fusco, Jos Boys, Sol Pérez Martínez
13 December, 2022

The Power of Place

The Happy Hypocrite

The Dream and the Word

After the Night

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Elizabeth Darling on Making Space: Women and the Manmade Environment Emilie Appercé on The Power of Place

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 Su-Jeong 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, 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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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
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

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

Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests

This collection is composed of a list of twelve favourite books sent to us by Flora Bonnemé, founder of Technè Bookshop.

Flora Bonnemé, Technè Bookshop
13 May, 2022

Pensées constructives. Architecture suisse alémanique 1980-2000

Penser-Faire. Thinking-Making ; Quand des architectes se mêlent de construction. When Architects Engage in Construction

Sensibilité Suisse : la culture de l’architecture en Suisse

The Living Museums – Franco Albini – BBPR – Lina Bo Bardi – Carlo Scarpa

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Claudia Mion on La Théorie du diamant

Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis 

The fifth Parlour Reading Room collection considers the climate crisis through an intersectional lens, imagining our “still possible shared futures” (Osborne, 2018, 148). The collection highlights the need to undo dominant concepts of nature, the politics of failure for the politically depressed, the impact of Climate Change on Indigenous communities and whether the equal representation […]

Parlour, Anwyn Hocking, Sophie Adsett
26 April, 2022

To undo nature; on refusal as return

For still possible cities: a politics of failure for the politically depressed

Not passive victims: Indigenous Australians respond to climate change

Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

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Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

The fourth Parlour Reading Room collection considers the built environment through an intersectional feminist lens, questioning equity and the city, and exploring the connections between public space and power. The collection touches on trans feminism, queer design strategies and the argument for community-led projects and design justice. In February 2022, we hosted a conversation between […]

Parlour, Anwyn Hocking, Sophie Adsett
25 April, 2022

Imagining a Black, Queer Aboriginal Melbourne

Let’s sign bathrooms by amenity, not by gender

The queer city: How to design more inclusive public space

Lighting the way for women and girls

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

Parlour Reading Room 3: Collective access

The third Parlour Reading Room collection considers the built environment through a feminist lens, reflecting on and questioning accessibility and the importance of noticing the “diverse perceptions and experiences of occupying built space” (Boys, 2018, p. 37). Through the collection, we ask how the social model of disability manifests in architectural practice and the built […]

Parlour, Anwyn Hocking, Sophie Adsett
22 April, 2022

The Disordinary Architecture Project: A Handy guide for doing disability differently in architecture and urban design

The universal design ideal

The Same Door

Designing collective access: a feminist disability theory of universal design

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Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens

The second theme of the Parlour Reading Room explores inclusivity and diversity within built environment professions. With Denise Scott Brown’s essay, “Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture”, Marie-Louise Richards’ essay in Field Journal: “Becoming a Feminist Architect” and other read-watch-listen materials, we ask how status affects inclusivity within the architectural […]

Parlour, Anwyn Hocking, Sophie Adsett
20 April, 2022

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

You might think you know me

Hyper-visible Invisibility: Tracing the Politics, Poetics and Affects of the Unseen

Sexism Is Still With Us

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Erandi de Silva on Room at the Top Katia Broz on Room at the Top May Bi on Room at the Top Estelle Gagliardi on Where Are the Women Architects?

Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism

The Parlour Reading Room was launched in August 2020 by Anwyn Hocking and Sophie Adsett. It offers an invitation for the Parlour community to delve deeper into themes related to intersectional feminist theory, practice and the built environment. The initiative provides the framework for individuals to self-organise book club groups with their friends, family and […]

Parlour, Anwyn Hocking, Sophie Adsett
20 April, 2022

Living a Feminist Life

Intersectionality and Indigenous Feminism: An Aboriginal Woman’s Perspective

The Combahee River Collective Statement

Feminist Architecture: From A to Z

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WAI Think Tank on The Combahee River Collective Statement Soo Jin Kim on A Killjoy Survival Kit
ETH Zurich Studio Caruso
15 April, 2022

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Herland

Genji monogatari 源氏物語

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

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Oliver Zbinden, Charlotte Thallinger, Alois Merkt on Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Simona Mele, Julius Schwartz, Luca Bronca on The Tale of Genji Julie Bovier, Lea Muttoni, Donata De Leso on Herland Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction  Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Victoria Balmer, James Flaus, Wen Guan, Sophie Kalwa on Why Are People Being So Nice? Helen Thomas, Alecia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism?

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel

20 years ago, I researched the 1934 Levant Fair in Tel Aviv, an international exhibition whose purpose was to boost the economy and the commercial ties of the Jewish community in Palestine under the British Mandate (Mandatory Palestine, 1921-1948). This was also an important architectural event that marked the acceptance of the international style as […]

Sigal Davidi
7 April, 2022

A Room of One’s Own

AA women in architecture, 1917–2017

Housing the Single Woman: The Frankfurt Experiment

Frau Architekt: Over 100 years of women in architecture

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Helen Thomas on No more Frauenghetto, bitte 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

Madame ETH

To accompany the exhibition Life Without Buildings curated by Adam Szymczyk, the gta exhibition team created Madame ETH located in Kiosk K67. This red kiosk was designed by Slovenian architect Saša Mächtig as a multi-purpose structure for the street. It takes the form of a modular smooth plastic shell, which here becomes a bookshop in […]

gta exhibitions
17 March, 2022

On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews

Les Orageuses

The Argonauts

Les Guérillères

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Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Francisco Moura Veiga on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames Katia Frey on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames Loudreaders on Caliban and the Witch Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch Hirante Welandawe on A Room of One’s Own Maria Conen on A Room of One’s Own 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 WAI Think Tank on The Wretched of the Screen Niels Olsen on El Planeta Film Companion Helen Thomas on The Living Mountain Alicia Ayla Yerebakan on The Living Mountain Valerie Keller on A Room of One’s Own Linda Sjøqvist on Les Orageuses Paul Grieguszies Schäfer on Notes on “Camp” Tatjana Blaser on The Argonauts Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch Shayari de Silva on Wretched of the Screen Penelope Haralambidou on City of Ladies Mary Norman Woods on Brinda Somaya Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on Brinda Somaya Paul Grieguszies on Caliban and the Witch Helen Thomas on Witches and Gossip

Finnish Women Writing

The Women who Rewrote the History of Finnish Architecture The history of Finnish architecture, like the history of architecture in general, is full of women. Although Finland was one of the first countries in the world where women could train as professional architects, for a long time these women remained in the shadows of history. […]

Markus Lähteenmäki, Anna Ripatti
15 March, 2022

Wivi Lönn 1872-1966

Women in the History of Finnish Art

Cities as Texts: Urban Practices Represented or Forgotten in Art History

Heroism and the Everyday: Building Finland in the 1950s

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Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

In November 2021, the editors at Women Writing Architecture wrote to Metropolis bookshop asking them whether they would be interested in contributing a collection to the annotated bibliography. The book buyer, Molly, wrote back with screenshots of their running list (so probably already transformed), explaining that these describe what we call ‘sisters in architecture’ These […]

Metropolis Bookshop
23 February, 2022

Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat

Women in Architecture: Past, Present, and Future

Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women

Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

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Hochparterre on Frauen in der Architektur Barbara Thüler on Having Words Roz Barr on Sexuality and Space Estelle Gagliardi on Where Are the Women Architects?

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Between 11 and 26 February 2022 the editorial staff of Caryatide were installed, temporarily, at the Galerie d’Architecture de Paris, transforming the rooms into a hybrid space where working  and exhibiting went hand in hand. The exhibition offered the visitor the opportunity to discover their projects-in-progress. A documented presentation of the projects at their respective […]

Cosa Mentale, Caryatide
15 February, 2022

Organiser le vide

La Ville cohérente

Une Mémoire revisitée, à propos de Louis I. Kahn

En poète habite l’homme

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