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.
The reading list of this 9-week course led by Professor Mary Pepchinski includes 30 texts, 11 of which were either written or co-authored by women. This collection brings together the citations for those texts.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
There is reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend. James Baldwin Simone and Gosia of Centrala, guest editors of the March Equinox 2026 women writing architecture Insights newletter, proposed Archeoastronomy and Collective Rituals as their theme: Regarding the theme for our contribution, […]
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, […]
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 […]
The principal intention of African State Architecture is to open up discussion around understanding statehood through architecture through a comparative study of state buildings in a selection of African countries, including Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, and South Africa. Quoting from the research summary of this project based at SOAS, London: Public buildings help define and […]
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 […]
The title of one Laborgruppe within wettbewerbslabor 2025 «Jury Diversität», was refined over nine months of discussion into «Die Liste», attempting to make itself less conspicuous. Composed of two important words that are often perceived as problematic in architecture, the original title «Jury Diversität» puts them together side by side without a connecting preposition. Surprisingly, […]