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.

Women Writing Architecture, Vera Sacchetti, Antje Stahl

27 June, 2021

Feminist Architecture: From A to Z

Building Sisterhood: How Feminists Sought to Make Architecture a Truly Collective Endeavor

Fabricating Architecture: Digital Craft as Feminist Practice

Women’s Work: An Eco-Feminist Approach to Environmental Design

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Syllabus: 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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ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

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 marked positions exemplarily show […]

Martina Bischof

20 May, 2021

Mrs Dalloway

The Need for Aged Buildings

Space and Structure; High Rise

Narrative Time: the question of the Gates of Hell

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Syllabus: Elli Mosayebi, Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Fabian Lauener, Nelly Pilz, Elli Mosayebi

5 May, 2021

Feministische Studien

Bertha Bünzly kocht vor Wut: feministisches Kochbuch

Frauen*streik

Sprache und Sein

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Syllabus: Mary McLeod and Victoria Rosner, 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 20 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

Solid Objects

Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson

The Debutante

Female Human Animal

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Syllabus: Mary McLeod, Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity 2020

In 2020, Professor Mary McLeod ran a week-long seminar course at the University of Ljubljana, from which a collection of 24 citations has been made. The ambitions of the course are described in its introduction: This class explores the intersections between gender and modern architecture, examining themes such as domestic reform, images of the New […]

Mary McLeod

29 April, 2021

The Uncanny Architect: Fears of Lesbian Builders and Deviant Homes in Modern Germany

Mirror Images: Technology, Consumption, and the Representation of Gender in American Architecture since World War II

The Diversity of Women’s Engagement with Modern Architecture and Design: Three Case Studies

La Donna è Mobile: Agoraphobia, Women, and Urban Space

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Syllabus: Mary Pepchinski, Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions 2020

The reading list of this 5-week seminar course led by Professor Mary Pepchinski is composed of 15 texts written by women. This collection brings together the citations for those texts.

Mary Pepchinski

10 February, 2021

The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Would they still call me a Diva?

Interview with Harriet Hariss, Architecture for the 99%: Dr. Harriet Harriss on Democratizing the Deanship, Inclusive Design Methodologies, and How the Younger Generation Can Lead

Bildbetrachtung: Die Architektin Elsa Burckhardt-Blum

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Syllabus: Mary Pepchinski, Architekturtheorie 2020

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.