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20 June, 2021

The citations and annotations in this collection occurred in conversations with collaborators who have been involved in preparing the Women Writing Architecture annotated bibliography during the first six months of 2021.

Advisory Board Conversations

The video collects together fragments from two Advisory Board meetings, one in February 2021 and the second in April 2021, with contributions by Amale Andraos, Emilie Appercé, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Adam Caruso, Sarah Handelman, Lizzie Malcolm, Mary McLeod, Helen Thomas, Barbara Thüler.

The Growing Library

A discussion taken from the online talk ‘The Power of Mushrooms: Berta Rahm’s Pavilion for the Saffa 58 Entangled Histories’ with Sonja Flury, Milena Buchwalder, Dorothee Hahn and Larissa Müllner from Pro-Saffa, and Emilie Appercé, Barbara Thüler and Helen Thomas from Women Writing Architecture


Citations mentioned during the talk:
The New Woman’s Survival Catalog, by Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie
Having Words, by Denise Scott Brown
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Female Eunuch, by Germaine Greer
A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Fahrten einer Paria I, by Flora Tristan

Collaborative Geographies

Solange Mbanefo from Matri-Archi talks with Emilie Appercé, Barbara Thüler and Helen Thomas about Matri-Archi’s digital Atlas of Collaborative Geographies and the overlap with Women Writing Architecture.


Citations mentioned during the talk:
African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place and Gender, by Labelle Prussin

JuanZong Books

Yuanye Deng and Lan Yao from JuanZong Books discuss their Touring Library and other projects and collaborations, alongside synergies with Women Writing Architecture.


Citations and Annotations in connection to the talk:
A Pictorial History of World Architecture, by Luo Xiaowei 罗小未Cai Wanying 蔡琬英
Die Architektin Maria Schwarz: Ein Leben für den Kirchenbau, by Annette Krapp

Conversation: Adam Caruso and Thomas Rohrer discuss the role of men and introduce their citations and annotations


Citations and Annotations introduced in the talk:
Thomas Rohrer on Paul Beatrix Preciado’s Testo Junkie
Thomas Rohrer on Lux Guyer (1894-1955), Architektin, edited by Beate Schnitter, Dorothee Huber and Sylvia Claus
Thomas Rohrer on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists
Adam Caruso on Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead
Adam Caruso on Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian
Adam Caruso on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Adam Caruso on Dolores Hayden’s The Grand Domestic Revolution

Conversation: Petra Gehrmann on the Baubibliothek ETH collection and the graphic novels she annotated


Citations and Annotations introduced in the talk:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Zosia Dzierżawska’s Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun
Tillie Walden’s A City Inside
Bishakh Som’s Apsara Engine

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Conversations in Preparation

The citations and annotations in this collection occurred in conversations with collaborators who have been involved in preparing the Women Writing Architecture annotated bibliography during the first six months of 2021.