On success

I believe that the most accessible way to give you, dear readers, an idea of what you’ll find in this reading list is to roughly sketch out the introduction I gave at a workshop on success that I ran in Ennenda. I told the participants: The topic success emerged when we started thinking about value, […]

Women Writing Architecture, Tatjana Blaser

7 June, 2025

The Triumphant Progress of Market Success

Room at the Top, Sexism and the Star System in Architecture

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

Sense, Sensibility and the Terms of Failure

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May Bi on Room at the Top Erandi de Silva on Room at the Top Katia Broz on Room at the Top Anna Rothstein on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Camilla Alves Nunes Köppel on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Dimitri Bleichenbacher on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Laura Oberholzer on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Léa De Piccoli on The Triumphant Progress of Market Success Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Alessia Bertini on L’arte delle gioia

On motherhood

This collection is made to accompany the March Equinox edition of Insights, Women Writing Architecture’s newsletter. We welcome any suggestions for citations, and definitions to add to the Glossary (editors@womenwritingarchitecture.org) below the two definitions so far: A Glossary definition and its limitations Motherhood can be defined as the state or experience of being a mother, […]

Women Writing Architecture

16 March, 2025

PILLARS OF HOME

Family and Governance: How Population Became a Matter of Politics

Claiming Public Space: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Sputiamo su Hegel

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Annamaria Prandi on Sputiamo su Hegel Ellis Woodman on Baggage Yagmur Kültür on Kuskus Huiyao Fu on Eva Hesse: Lost for Words and Louise Bourgeois: Conversation with Frances Morris Fiona Hatz on Motherhood according to Giovanni Bellini Tatjana Blaser on The Argonauts Tatjana Blaser on Ma mère rit Loudreaders on Founding the Feminist Utopia Stéphanie Dadour on The Handmaid’s Tale Rebecca Siefert on The Dignity of Resistance

Can Writing Be Activism?

As part of the Parity Talks : Get Your Act Together! Studio Adam Caruso and Women Writing Architecture hosted a workshop on 8th March 2023 at the ONA DiD Lab at ETH Zurich. The workshop began with the crucial question: “Can writing be activism?” Our starting point is that no, it cannot, unless it is […]

Women Writing Architecture, ETH Zurich Studio Caruso, Helen Thomas, Alicia Ayla Yerebakan

2 October, 2024

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Eight Theses on Feminist Revolution

Manifesto for Maintenance Art

Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Helen Thomas, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism? Emilie Appercé on Maintenance Art Lucia Bernini, Jonas Heller, Florian Reisner, Sofia Gloor on Manifesto for Maintenance Art

bodymind

At women writing architecture, we are teaming up with Jessie Buckle to investigate the concept of ‘bodymind’. We will be exploring it as a glossary term through a lunchtime workshop and developing means to explore it further and weave it into further projects. In the meantime, the beginning of our definition (below) is accompanied by […]

Women Writing Architecture

2 May, 2024

Mind-body connection is built into brain, study suggests

Our Body and Mind are One

Glossary term: bodymind

The Bodymind Problem

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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

The Author Speaks

Each episode of The Author Speaks (T-A-S) series is a short interview where we find out a little about the approach and inspirations of different female producers of text, focussing each time on one of their works. Our circle of guests extends globally to women that in some way or another, engage with an idea […]

Women Writing Architecture, Mindy Seu, Frida Grahn, Elke Krasny, Ella Eßlinger, Clara Richard Gostynski, Emilie Appercé, Helen Thomas, An Fonteyne

14 April, 2023

Cyberfeminism Index

Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes

Living with an Infected Planet. COVID-19, Feminism, and the Global Frontline of Care

Anna Göldin. Letzte Hexe

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

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

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

Writing Memory

Architects have long drawn connections between memory and the work they produce. This conversation investigates three ways that memory shapes space – whether that is how, conceptually, it changes the ‘space’ of framework we ourselves have used to think about or know a certain work, as in the case of Denise Scott Brown; or whether […]

Emma Letizia Jones, Helen Thomas, Sarah Handelman

14 January, 2021