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The Weather

Over the last year, I have been always more aware of the weather as an aspect of architecture – as an abstract concept that features in concerns around climate change, usually catastrophic, apocalyptic even, that creates a sense of dread without a way of escaping it, but also as a lived phenomenon, very personal and […]

Helen Thomas
24 April, 2025

Weather and the City. How Design Shapes the Urban Climate

The Living Mountain

The Weather

Light

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Alicia Ayla Yerebakan on The Living Mountain Arianna Melchiorri on The Living Mountain Emma Kleinbölting on The Living Mountain Helen Thomas on The Living Mountain Yosuke Nakamoto on The Living Mountain Mona Dillier on The Living Mountain Matthew Phillips on Air as Medium Jihyeong Lee on The Silent Spring Oliver Canins, Kim Gubbini, Victoria Jabbour on Cold Enough for Snow

The 11th Book : Episode 18

In episode 18 of ‘The 11th Book’, a reading room produced by Curating Architecture Collective Seoul, architect Ryul Song was asked to select 10 important books that are central to her practice as an architect, writer, editor and curator, and to tell the stories surrounding them. At the end, she was asked to imagine an […]

Ryul Song, Curating Architecture Collective Seoul
11 February, 2025

The Yellow Wallpaper

Fear of Flying

Atlas der abgelegenen Inseln

Gordon Matta-Clark

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Zofia Hansen in Szumin

Since 2013, CENTRALA (Gosia Kuciewicz and Simone De Iacobis) have been custodians of the architecture of a living monument—Oskar and Zofia Hansen’s house in Szumin, which is under the care of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and open to the public. This summer house belonged to these important Polish architects, and is a […]

Centrala
23 January, 2025

Zofia Hansen

Zofia and Oskar Hansen

Oskar and Zofia Hansen House in Szumin

Oskar and Zofia Hansen – The Grammar of Displays

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Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Wera Meyer-Waldeck (WM-W) (Dresden 1906 – Bonn 1964) estudió desde 1927 hasta 1932 con los tres directores de la Bauhaus y de todos se llevó enseñanzas que más tarde aplicaría en su vida profesional. Sus trabajos fin de carrera consistieron en proyectar una escuela infantil y un colegio de ocho aulas, insertos dentro de la […]

Josenia Hervás y Heras
16 December, 2024

Las mujeres de la Bauhaus

Die Neuen kommen! : weibliche Avantgarde in der Architektur der zwanziger Jahre

Bauhaus- und Tessenow-Schülerinnen. Genderaspekte im Spannungsverhältnis von Tradition und Moderne

Architektinnenhistorie: zur Geschichte der Architektinnen und Designerinnen im 20. Jahrhundert: eine erste Zusammenstellung

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Carmen Espegel on Mujeres de la Bauhaus, de lo bidimensional al espacio total

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

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

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

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 Modern 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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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

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, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism?

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

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

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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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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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?

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