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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

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 Women Lea Graziani on Vindication of the Rights of Women 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, Charlotte Matter
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

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

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, Alicia 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 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 Emma Kleinbölting on The Living Mountain Mona Dillier on The Living Mountain Arianna Melchiorri on The Living Mountain Yosuke Nakamoto on The Living Mountain

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? Elisabeth Gellein on Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture Elisabeth Gellein on Dirty Theory : Troubling Architecture

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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ETH Zurich Studio Caruso
20 January, 2022

Dear Conchi

Manifesto for Maintenance Art

The Artistic Mode of Revolution

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

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Anastasia Zharova on Dear Conchi Lucia Bernini, Jonas Heller, Florian Reisner, Sofia Gloor on Manifesto for Maintenance Art Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Emilie Appercé on Maintenance Art

The Foyer. A Unique Narrative atelier

The Foyer. is Marta and Blanca Vives, sisters and architects of the inner life of the project. Their intention for participating in Women Writing Architecture is to deepen insights of the texts that they curate from a Unique Narrative angle. Unique Narrative is the orphaned step zero; the recreation of an inner world through a […]

Marta Vives, Blanca Vives
19 January, 2022

Écrire

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

Marta Vives on Écrire Blanca Vives on Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Mariana Siracusa on Écrire

New Order: Unit 3 at Kingston School of Art

This collection has been compiled from a larger reading list used by Professor Andrew Clancy and Laura Evans in their teaching of Unit 3 at Kingston School of Art in London in 2020-21. A parallel unit with a different reading list was run by Catherine Blaney and Colm Moore at Queens University Belfast. Faced with […]

Laura Evans
12 January, 2022

Purple Hibiscus

The God of Small Things

Hiver a Sokcho 속초에서의 겨울

Jamaica Inn

Laura Evans on Purple Hibiscus Laura Evans and Catarina de Abreu on Winter in Sokcho Laura Evans and Drucilla Boakye on Jamaica Inn Laura Evans and Finian Reece-Thomas on Purple Hibiscus Laura Evans and Hiyala Shafeeq on The God of Small Things

Decoratoresses

This list was made spontaneously by Pablo Bronstein on encountering Women Writing Architecture, responding to but not entirely reflecting his idea of Lady Decoratoresses. Curious about the reasons that many female designers reside in the shadowy corners of books written about male architects and designers, this list suggests some of the historical names that occurred […]

Pablo Bronstein
19 December, 2021

The Decoration of Houses

Footprints, an Autobiography

Sister, a biography of Sister Parish

Sixty Years of Interior Design: The World of McMillen

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Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

During the autumn of 2021, Dr Anne Hultzsch (Women Writing Architecture: Female Experiences of the Built 1700-1900 (WoWA)) led a seminar around reading history from women’s perspectives, questioning not only the subject matter and ways of seeing it, but also the mechanism for writing. Using the form of ficto-criticism, students were encouraged to understand this […]

Anne Hultzsch
8 December, 2021

Thinking about Feminism in European History

About Canons and Culture Wars

Gender

Theorizing the Relationships between Architecture and Gender in Early Modern Europe

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Lorena Bassi on Fahrten einer Paria Anne Hultzsch on Journal of a Residence in Chile Anne Hultzsch on A Tour in Switzerland Elena Rieger on Between the Landscape and Confinement Zofia Krupa on Between the Landscape and Confinement Stefania Archilli on Residence in Chile Carolina Catarino Gomes on Residence in Chile Miranda Reynolds on Residence in Chile Laia Meier on Residence in Chile Helen Thomas on Fahrten einer Paria

Im Gespräch: Annemarie Burckhardt und Beate Schitter

In the spring of 2011, Reto Geiser and Martino Stierli, lecturers for architectural criticism at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich,  ran a seminar course focused on the making and collecting of oral histories. During this time, their students met and interviewed figures from the Swiss architectural scene, seeking to locate their position within the […]

Reto Geiser
20 November, 2021

Beate Schnitter in conversation with Elina Müller and Hanna Kuby

Annemarie Burckhardt in conversation with Li Tavor and Regula Schweizer

Moderne Architektur in der Schweiz seit 1900

Der Falsche Documenta Katalog

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Thomas Rohrer on Lux Guyer

Eureka! Touring Library

The Eureka! Touring Library is an annual project generated by JuangZong Books & Deng Yuanye, and in their words, it: brings together the world’s leading independent and academic publishing houses that are dedicated to the contents of architecture. Eureka! Touring Library showcases the best of the year’s newest publications, the private libraries of master architects, […]

JuanZong Books
14 November, 2021

Max Lamb: Exercises in Seating

Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism

Eileen Gray

Le Corbusier

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Hochparterre Bücher recommends

This simple collection consists of recent books by women that can be found at the Hochparterre bookshop in Zurich, and includes an annotation written by the shop’s managers at the time, Cornelia Thalmann and Anne Müller.

Hochparterre Bücher
7 October, 2021

Women in Architecture: Past, Present, and Future

Crafting Wood Structure and Expression

Gallery Magazine # 1

On the Necessity of Gardening. An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation

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Hochparterre on Frauen in der Architektur

Curating Artek and the Aaltos

This collection responds to the process of curating the exhibition Artek and the Aaltos and at its heart is a celebration of Aino Marsio-Aalto as a practicing architect. The Artek and the Aaltos exhibition was shown at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York between April 22 and October 2, 2016. The exhibition was accompanied […]

Nina Stritzler-Levine
6 October, 2021

Artek and the Aaltos

The Fringe of A Profession: Women as Architects in Finland From the 1890s to the 1950s

With, Or Without You: The Ghosts of Modern Architecture

Aalto and the Tutelary Goddess

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Reading Room

Over the weekend of 11/12 September 2021 the garden of ZAZ was populated by an event hosted by Annexe Book Fair, Zine Making, and Dumpling Making Workshop Join us and our guests to browse through a selection of key feminist texts and hear about why they are important and relevant to read today. After browsing, […]

Annexe, Emilie Appercé
1 October, 2021

Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitic

Women in Architecture: Past, Present, and Future

The New Woman’s Survival Catalog

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

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Emilie Appercé on I’m every woman Emilie Appercé on The Problem of Speaking For Others Emilie Appercé on Maintenance Art Emilie Appercé on Une paysanne entre ferme, marché et associations Emilie Appercé on Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung Valerie Keller on A Room of One’s Own Hirante Welandawe on A Room of One’s Own Maria Conen on A Room of One’s Own Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Lucia Bernini, Jonas Heller, Florian Reisner, Sofia Gloor on Manifesto for Maintenance Art Sonja Flury on Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung Hochparterre on Frauen in der Architektur Amy Perkins on Ahmed for Architecture Students Amy Perkins on Architectural Flirtations Emilie Appercé on the New Woman’s Survival Catalog Loudreaders on Caliban and the Witch Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch Linda Sjøqvist on The Mediated Plant Grégoire Bridel and Remy Carron on Staying with the Trouble Petra Gehrmann on A City Inside Petra Gehrmann on Apsara Engine Petra Gehrmann on A House Under the Sun Penelope Haralambidou on City of Ladies Francisco Moura Veiga on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames Katia Frey on Le Livre de la Cité des Dames Soo Jin Kim on A Killjoy Survival Kit Paul Grieguszies on Caliban and the Witch Sonja Flury on Breaking Ground Seounju Kim on Staying with the Trouble Helen Thomas on Witches and Gossip Soo Jin Kim on The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Edited and directed by Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, this resource has been developed collaboratively since 2012, with entries still being added by scholars of architectural history. There are 34 of the projected 50 American women architects to date. The current list can be seen below, where 28 of the 35 entries have been written […]

Women Writing Architecture
24 August, 2021

Alice Constance Austin

Florence Knoll Bassett

Louise Blanchard Bethune

Georgia Louise Harris Brown

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Cartha 2018: Building Identity

During its fourth year (2018), Cartha was concerned with Building Identity. The content – editorials, essays, projects, visual essays, and interviews – is divided into five parts, each one : ASSIMILATION The absorption and integration of people, ideas, or culture into a wider society or culture. The process of becoming similar to something. The process […]

Cartha, Francisco Moura Veiga
2 August, 2021

Perpetual Perspectives

An Architecture Without Contempt

Barranca

About Bridges

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Francisco Moura Veiga on Rejection of The Archive

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

The first part of The Possible Progress lays the theoretical foundation upon which a series of answers by key guests will be set. The editors begin with this complex question: The Positivist Stage, as stated by Comte, marked the entry into an era when, due to gradual but constant scientific developments, increasingly accurate predictions of […]

Cartha, Francisco Moura Veiga
31 July, 2021

The Contemporary Ruin – Material Frictions in Times of Flux

Stepping Back to Make Progress

(Fake) News From Nowhere: Utopia Against Stagnation

A Contradictory Reading of Facts and Urban Spaces: The Rhetoric of Progress

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The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

This slowly-growing collection was initiated as part of the gta (ETH Zürich) exhibition The Power of Mushrooms – Berta Rahm’s Pavilion for the Saffa 58. The collective intelligence of fungi acted as a model to conceive the Growing Library, an inventory of books and texts from and about FTIQ* architects and feminist topics to collectively create […]

Milena Buchwalder, Dorothee Hahn, Larissa Müllner, Association ProSaffa1958-Pavillon, Sonja Flury
21 July, 2021

Reise nach Skandinavien und Finnland

Erinnerungen

Werde, die du bist

Marie Goegg (geb. Pouchoulin) : Mitbegründerin der Internationalen Liga für Frieden und Freiheit, Gründerin des Internationalen Frauenbundes, des Journal des Femmes und der Solidarité

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Katia Frey on Reise nach Skandinavien und Finnland Sonja Flury on Lisbeth Sachs Sonja Flury on Vom möblierten Zimmer bis zur Wohnung Sonja Flury on Chratz & Quer Sonja Flury on Die drei Leben des Saffa-Hauses Emilie Appercé on Box Furniture Helen Thomas on Fahrten einer Paria Helen Thomas on Juan O’Gorman Sonja Flury on Breaking Ground Milena Buchwalder on Behind Straight Curtains Milena Buchwalder on Frauennetzwerke in Architektur und Planung Helen Thomas on Death Comes for the Archbishop Dorothee Hahn on Women in Architecture Emilie Appercé on Nanda Vigo Helen Thomas on Pionierinnen und Pioniere

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

This collection has been put together by the Women Writing Architecture editors from the syllabus of the Architectural Criticism seminar at ETH Zurich in 2020 led by Antje Stahl and Vera Sacchetti. The full syllabus can be found here.

Antje Stahl, Vera Sacchetti, Women Writing Architecture
27 June, 2021

The Case for Safe Spaces

No more Frauenghetto, bitte

Breaking Ground book on buildings by women ‘is both needed and problematic’

Why Nicolai Ouroussoff is not Good Enough

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DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

This collection lists the syllabus of the first DRAG lab book club semester. The DRAG lab book club is a format for horizontal discussions open to all. It aims to provide a framework for joint reflection and the sharing of questions relating to architecture, its practice, and teaching. The events of the book club are […]

DRAG Lab Book Club
25 June, 2021

Lecture Three : Cross-Cladding

Chez soi : une odyssée de l’espace domestique

Domesticity at War

Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept

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Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Loudreaders on Queer Cartographies

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

The following collection has been curated by Baubibliothek librarian Petra Gehrmann during June 2021, who has carried out the task of identifying books in the collection written by women that address the role and presence of women in the architecture profession.

Petra Gehrmann
24 June, 2021

Enough is Enough

Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession

The Trouble with Women Artists: Reframing the History of Art

Charlotte Perriand

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Thomas Rohrer on Lux Guyer Annmarie Adams on Women and the Making of the Modern House Annmarie Adams on The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice Jasmine Yu on Gender Space Architecture Estelle Gagliardi on Where Are the Women Architects?

WAI Architecture Think Tank

The practice of WAI Architecture Think Tank questions the political, historical, material legacy and imperatives of architecture and urbanism. WAI is one of their platforms of public engagement, which include Intelligentsia Gallery and the education platform and trade-school Loudreaders. Amongst others, their work has been exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Biennial and the Museum of […]

WAI Architecture Think Tank
24 June, 2021

Encancaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio

Women, Race & Class

Why Arguments Against Abolition Inevitably Fail

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

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WAI Think Tank on Black Metamorphosis WAI Think Tank on Black on Both Sides WAI Think Tank on Decolonization is not a Metaphor WAI Think Tank on Encancaranublado y otros cuentos de naufragio WAI Think Tank on Teaching Community WAI Think Tank on Teaching to Transgress WAI Think Tank on The Combahee River Collective Statement WAI Think Tank on The Wretched of the Screen WAI Think Tank on Why Arguments Against Abolition Inevitably Fail WAI Think Tank on Women, Race & Class Shayari de Silva on Wretched of the Screen

Loudreaders

Loudreaders is an open pedagogical platform and free trade school, that engages with architectural education as a form of mutual aid and critical solidarity in the age of COVID-19. It is based on the emancipating and persecuted alternative practice of education performed by lectors like Luisa Capetillo in the tobacco factories in the Caribbean. The […]

Loudreaders Trade School
24 June, 2021

Amor y Anarquía: Los Escritos de Luisa Capetillo

Anti-Racist Manifesto

Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Algeria

Bloodchild

+20 more Citations
Loudreaders on Absolute Equality Loudreaders on Amor y Anarquía Loudreaders on Anti-Racist Manifesto Loudreaders on Architecture of Counterrevolution Loudreaders on Bloodchild Loudreaders on Caliban and the Witch Loudreaders on Ch’ixinakax utxiwa Loudreaders on El Lector Loudreaders on Emergent Strategy Loudreaders on Farming While Black Loudreaders on Founding the Feminist Utopia Loudreaders on Fronts Loudreaders on Gore Capitalism Loudreaders on Learning to Become an Extremophile Loudreaders on Nature and Culture Loudreaders on Parable of the Sower Loudreaders on Potential History Loudreaders on Queer Cartographies Loudreaders on Scenes of Subjection Loudreaders on The Dispossessed Loudreaders on The Tertiary Loudreaders on Unstitching Rex Trueform Loudreaders on Wages Against Housework Loudreaders on While They Sleep Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch Paul Grieguszies on Caliban and the Witch Helen Thomas on Witches and Gossip

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.

Women Writing Architecture, Thomas Rohrer, Helen Thomas, Lizzie Malcolm, Sarah Handelman, Emilie Appercé, Barbara Thüler
20 June, 2021

Testo Junkie

Testo yonqui

Lux Guyer (1894-1955), Architektin

We Should All Be Feminists

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Adam Caruso on The Fountainhead Adam Caruso on Pride and Prejudice Adam Caruso on Memoirs of Hadrian Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Petra Gehrmann on A City Inside Petra Gehrmann on Apsara Engine Petra Gehrmann on A House Under the Sun Emilie Appercé on the New Woman’s Survival Catalog Mindy Seu on Testo Junkie Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Linda Sjoqvistand and Paul Grieguszies on Testo Junkie Thomas Rohrer on Testo Junkie Barbara Thüler on Having Words Yeshi Wang on A Pictorial History of World Architecture Thomas Rohrer on Lux Guyer Anouk Fischer on Vindication of the Rights of Women Lea Graziani on Vindication of the Rights of Women Lorena Bassi on Fahrten einer Paria Thomas Rohrer on We Should All Be Feminists Yeshi Wang on Die Architektin Maria Schwarz Marie-José Van Hee on The Female Eunuch Liza Fior on A Little Princess

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Reading Circle Performance The images show the covers of the text collections of Studio Caruso, chair for architecture and construction at the DARCH of ETH Zurich, led by Prof. Adam Caruso. Since 2011, these textbooks have been compiled and printed at the beginning of each semester with reference to the semester’s topic. Here, the […]

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso
20 May, 2021

Passages in Modern Sculpture

Richard Serra, a Translation

Narrative Time: the question of the Gates of Hell

Space and Structure; High Rise

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Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch Jan Schweizer, Nicolas Schwegler, Yiran Zhang and Severin Ziegler on The Mushroom at the End of the World Grégoire Bridel and Remy Carron on Staying with the Trouble Lucia Bernini, Jonas Heller, Florian Reisner, Sofia Gloor on Manifesto for Maintenance Art Anastasia Zharova on Dear Conchi Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Linda Sjoqvistand and Paul Grieguszies on Testo Junkie Mindy Seu on Testo Junkie Thomas Rohrer on Testo Junkie Kenneth Frampton on The Human Condition Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Maria Conen on A Room of One’s Own Valerie Keller on A Room of One’s Own Hirante Welandawe on A Room of One’s Own Emilie Appercé on Maintenance Art Loudreaders on Caliban and the Witch Mariana Siracusa on Passages in Modern Sculpture Linda Sjøqvist on The Mediated Plant Helen Thomas on The Hearing Trumpet Soo Jin Kim on A Killjoy Survival Kit Paul Grieguszies on Caliban and the Witch Seounju Kim on Staying with the Trouble Helen Thomas on Witches and Gossip Cristina Fusco on The Mushroom at the End of the World

Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment (2015-2018)

This collection lists the intellectual foundation for Anoma Pieris’s Australian Research Council Future Fellowship project: Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment (2015-2018). ‘I look to interdisciplinary scholarship for incisive analyses of political issues; on racism, structural exclusions and social injustices – topics that canonical architectural texts may avoid. Among books on my shelf that […]

Anoma Pieris
13 May, 2021

Can the Subaltern Speak?

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: a Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics

The Intimacies Of Four Continents

Anoma Pieris on Borderlands/La Frontera and Can the Subaltern Speak?
Elli Mosayebi, Fabian Lauener, Nelly Pilz
5 May, 2021

FBB: Fotogeschichte der Frauenbefreiungsbewegung Zürich

Contingent foundations: Feminism and the question of ‘postmodernism’

Ausbruch & Rausch, Frauen Kunst Punk 1975–1980

Die Ziele der Frauenbewegung

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Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction  Annamaria Prandi on King Kong Theorie Tatjana Blaser on Orlando Anne-Marie Armstrong on Orlando Julie Bovier, Lea Muttoni, Donata De Leso on Herland Blanca Vives on Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Thomas Rohrer on We Should All Be Feminists 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 Loudreaders on Caliban and the Witch Murielle Morger and Eva Schneuwly on Caliban and the Witch Grégoire Bridel and Remy Carron on Staying with the Trouble Anoma Pieris on Borderlands/La Frontera and Can the Subaltern Speak? Paul Grieguszies on Caliban and the Witch Lisa Hadioui on Le Deuxième Sexe Soo Jin Kim on Jeju Haenyeo Collective Seounju Kim on Staying with the Trouble Helen Thomas on Witches and Gossip Helen Thomas, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism? Jihyeong Lee on The Silent Spring

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

The reading list of this 12-week seminar course led by Professor Mary McLeod of Columbia GSAPP and Professor Victoria Rosner from the Department of English at Columbia includes 21 texts written by women, from which this collection is made. The course introduction explains its critical intentions: This class explores alternative visions of domestic life from […]

Mary McLeod, Victoria Rosner
1 May, 2021

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

Herland

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Awakening

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Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Julie Bovier, Lea Muttoni, Donata De Leso on Herland