Episode 1 : Cyberfeminism Index by Mindy Seu, interviewed by Emilie Appercé and Jaehee Shin

On the occasion of Mindy Seu’s Cyberfeminism Index world tour, the WWA editors Emilie Appercé and Jaehee Shin met with her at the Zurich University of the Arts to discuss the evolution of her project since she launched the Cyberfeminism Index website in 2020, and the future of the index, which now exists in both digital and physical form.

With:

Mindy Seu (designer, researcher), Emilie Appercé (architect, WWA editor), Jaehee Shin (architect, WWA editor)

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An atelier of the ZHdK, Zurich University of the Arts in Zürich

Episode 2 : Living with an Infected Planet by Elke Krasny, interviewed by Helen Thomas and Adam Caruso

In June 2023, Elke Krasny, in Zurich for a conference, made a detour to Ennenda (Glarus) out of curiosity. This was inspired by the Anna Göldi Museum, dedicated to the last woman killed as a witch in Europe.

At the museum, Elke met with Helen Thomas of Women Writing Architecture and Adam Caruso, architect and teacher, to talk about her book Living with an Infected Planet. COVID-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care (2023).

With:

Elke Krasny (cultural and architectural theorist, teacher, curator), Helen Thomas (architect, publisher, WWA editor) and Adam Caruso (architect, teacher)

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Anna Göldi Museum, Ennenda, Glarus

Episode 3 : Denise Scott Brown: In Other Eyes, Portraits of an Architect edited by Frida Grahn, interviewed by Helen Thomas and Emilie Appercé

In July 2023, Frida Grahn, back in Switzerland after a sojourn in the US where she took part in a symposium on Denise Scott Brown, joined us in Ennenda (Glarus) to talk about her book Denise Scott Brown in Other Eyes, Portraits of an Architect. This edited volume is the result of an encounter with Denise during the research process of her PhD, The Reception of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in Switzerland.

With:

Frida Grahn (architect, historian of architecture), Helen Thomas (architect, publisher, WWA editor) and Emilie Appercé (architect, WWA editor)

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Ennenda, Glarus

Episode 4: Afterglow by Ella Eßlinger and Clara Richard Gostynski, interviewed by Emilie Appercé and Helen Thomas

In March 2025, we met with Ella Esslinger and Clara Richard Godzinski in the foyer of the Kunsthaus Zürich, to mark the release of the second volume of Nachglühen (Afterglow), published by wwa (publishing). Excerpts from the book are available to read on the forum. We came together to explore a central question of the project: What if our grandmothers’ houses were the true monuments of the 20th century?

With:

Clara Richard Gostynski (architect, actor, and editor), Ella Eßlinger (architect, and editor), Helen Thomas (architect, publisher, WWA editor) and Emilie Appercé (architect, WWA editor)

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Kunsthaus Zürich

Episode 5: Chambres d’Amis by An Fonteyne, interviewed by Helen Thomas and Stephen Bates

On a hot and sunny 12 June in Belgium, Helen Thomas of Women Writing Architecture visited An Fonteyne of NoArchitecten in her Brussels office to discover more about the secrets that she divulged in her book Chambres d’Amis, one of a series published by Jan de Vylder called Confessions. We were joined by Stephen Bates of Sergison Bates Architects, who are working together with NoA on the enormous Kanal project.

With:

An Fonteyne (architect, teacher), Stephen Bates (architect, teacher) and Helen Thomas (architect, publisher, WWA editor)

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NoArchitecten office, Brussels

Episode 6: London Arboretum by Judith Lösing, interviewed by Helen Thomas and Cristina Monteiro

In December, Cristina Monteiro and Helen Thomas joined Judith Lösing in conversation about her book London Arboretum. Judith chose the Canary WharfCrossrail Station to meet – a covered woodland, so we wouldn’t get cold. The book dwells on the trees of the city – “London is a forest, home to eight million trees, one for every Londoner”. It follows a series of unconventional Tree Talks featuring stages crowded with performers all celebrating the importance of trees, very different to the conventional lectures by individual architects that we are used to.

With:

Judith Lösing (architect, gardener, joiner), Cristina Monteiro (architect, author), Helen Thomas (architect, publisher, WWA editor)

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Crossrail Roof Garden, Canary Wharf Crossrail Station

Episode 7:Women Writing Architecture 1700–1900. Expanding Histories edited by Anne Hultzsch and Sol Pérez-Martínez, interviewed by Helen Thomas and Jabili Sirineni

The five-year research project Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 led by Anne Hultzsch culminated in the publication of a book and a small exhibition. In March, Anne and post-doc Sol Pérez-Martínez, editors of the book, met with Helen Thomas and Jabili Sirineni of Women Writing Architecture to talk about their publication and its relationship to the teaching, workshops and methodologies for reading and making history that the developed along with the project’s PhD student Elena Rieger.

With:

Anne Hultasch (architect, academic), Sol Pérez-Martínez (architect, academic), Jabili Sirineni (architect, WWA editor), Helen Thomas (architect, publisher, WWA editor)

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Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900 exhibition at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, 4 March – 8 May 2026