Represented here are the activities and products that are created by the team at Women Writing Architecture and its readers and users. Everyone is invited to participate, email: editors@womenwritingarchitecture.org to find out more.
On the right-hand side of the page (or below on a phone) is a listing of current, recent and, eventually, historic news. Publications in different media can be browsed in the field below.
A natural place for texts written by women about architecture is the history or theory seminar list or syllabus in schools of architecture and they are more and more present.
In this post, we celebrate writing by women that is being used in a design studio as a starting point for associational and design thinking. This is NEW ORDER led by Andrew Clancy and Colm Moore at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, building on a process begun at Kingston School of Architecture in London, with Laura Evans.
Lebendige Tradition / Intangible Heritage is an exhibition opening 1 April at the Anna Göldi Museum and over the summer.
A German version of the new A2-sized Ennenda Tales / Erzählenes Ennenda by women writing architecture (publishing) is on display. Included are German translations of small stories by Laura Oberholzer based on her encounters with the village and its characters.
During the summer of 2022, Emilie Appercé and Helen Thomas of Women Writing Architecture along with Jaehee Shin spent some days at the Furka Pass in:dépendance residence exploring the 11th century novel, The Tale of Genji written by Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu.
This month, they are talking about the book with Carolina Catarino Gomes of Furka Radio, which began in Furka around the same time, with an accompanying sound track by Carolina.
As part of the celebration of Women’s History Month, Silvia Groaz, Bianca Felicori and Beatrice Lampariello of the SAH Women in Architecture Group have organised a special virtual conversation with the challenge: We Have Looked for 4,000 Years; Now We Have Seen!
With Anne Massey and Léa-Catherine Szacka, Helen Thomas and Jaehee Shin are talking about how Women Writing Architecture began and what it means now to work as a collective.
Join in on zoom (11:00 in the US, 17:00 in Europe) Thursday 27 March 2025.
Women Writing Architecture editor Estelle Gagliardi is collecting attitudes, experiences and definitions of motherhood, see @stlgagliardi
She would love to hear from you estelle.gagliardi@usi.ch or editors@womenwritingarchitecture.org
Gathered in the foyer of the Kunsthaus Zürich, one of the few indoors public spaces in the city where you can meet without consuming, the editors of Nachglühen (Afterglow), Ella Eßlinger and Clara Richard Gostynski, talked to Emilie Appercé and Helen Thomas of Women Writing Architecture about the motivations and themes of their beautiful book. This collection of archival and personal narratives about the lives and homes of grandmothers around the world brings a new light, an afterglow, to architecture and its relation to memory.
Paul Grieguszies, Ji Min An, Helen Thomas and Jaehee Shin discussed Anna Tsing‘s book The Mushroom at the End of the World for the podcast A Book I Love. They met at the Frauenkulturarchiv in Chur, a reading room in an extensive library and archive of documents on the women of the Swiss Canton of Graubünden.
The first issue of Insights, the Women Writing Architecture’s newsletter, was sent out 21st December 2024. Put together by Estelle Gagliardi, this December Solstice 2024 issue includes a focus on bookshops and a conversation with Mariana Siracusa of Spazio Milano.
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Helen Thomas and James Payne discussed their research at the London Metropolitan School of Architecture. Helen based in Ennenda talked about a Women Writing Architecture project called ‘Walking through Architecture’, James looked at Stockholm as part of a teaching methodology. The title was ‘Experiencing Architecture in Landscape’ themes for discussion included walking through architecture, feminist poetry, 3D maps and the weather.
B11 Baumeister: Selected by Caruso St John is a reader reflecting an attitude to contemporary architectural practice. Many of the texts are by women :)) and Women Writing Architecture is featured too …
This evening at the Anna Göldi Museum in Ennenda, Switzerland, Women Writing Architecture presents Ennenda Tales. This online project, in progress, maps research by six students into the life and myths of the village. The event celebrates the museum building, a historic Hangitürm, in the context of the European Day of Monuments/Europäischen Tage des Denkmals, 2024
Jaehee Shin joined the editorial team at Women Writing Architecture in 2023. An architect from South Korea, Jaehee lives in Ilanz and Zurich, where she has a small architecture and writing practice. From her European base, she makes vital connections with women in Korea, who speak through the annotations and collections that they make. Some examples are: SOFA magazine; Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트; Youlhwadang Book Museum; Building Role Models; Dictee.
On Hinterland, the website for the 2024 Klöntal Triennale in Glarus, where Women Writing Architecture has its physical home in Tisch Zwei Verein, Helen Thomas writes on Walking Through Architecture, a project in progress, and reflects on the Women Writing Architecture workshop, Being A Stranger, September 2023 .
In April, Women Writing Architecture featured on the Royal Institute of British Architects blog, Knowledge.
As CABLE embarks on planning their upcoming annual exhibition, ‘SEEN HEARD BUILT’, they have reached out to feature Women Writing Architecture in this significant showcase.
CABLE, a cultural experimental space dedicated to exploring planning, architecture, and culture, with a specific focus on the city, is committed to shedding light on gender issues in urban spaces through the ‘SEEN HEARD BUILT’ exhibition. This exhibition will present diverse perspectives by delving into the history of gender-equal cities, showcasing domestic and international city design and architectural case studies, as well as incorporating photographic, installation, and documentary works. They aim to collectively explore how the female perspective can shape the future of urban life.
Women Writing Architecture take part in the first edition of DAY OF WORDS which will take place on Tuesday, 5th of March 2024 at ONA Fokushalle, Zürich. The DAY OF WORDS is part of a series of three days of presentations and talks about DRAWINGS (20.02), NORMS (27.02) and WORDS (05.03), organised by Professor Jan De Vylder and the bachelor team at the chair of ETH Zürich.
The DAY OF WORDS is a fantastic occasion for the students and for the teaching team to learn from the importance of words, writings, and readings in our practice as architects and editors at Women Writing Architecture. The lecture will be part of the Parity Talks. The chair organising has asked each guest to tackle the subject of WORDS in the frame of the social, political and ethical problems that we are facing in universities, practices, editorial boards.
At the end of August, Silvia Federici came to the small Swiss village of Ennenda to speak to a select but entranced audience about gossip, witches and, responding the industrial past of the canton, textiles.
Silvia Federici joined Helen Thomas of Women Writing Architecture/Tisch Zwei Verein, Tina Milz of Theater Neumarkt and Geraldine Tedder of Kunsthalle Winterthur in conversation.
A film of the conversation can be found here.
Tisch Zwei Verein has been established as a physical home to Women Writing Architecture and a place where things happen.
Tisch Zwei Verein is an association and a space based in Ennenda (Glarus) Switzerland that offers various activities to support women who write about architecture, and those who want to. From a small, industrial village in the centre of Switzerland, Tisch Zwei sends out an invitation to join in, wherever you are. Click the logo to find out more … and even become a member.
March 2023, Women Writing Architecture announce women writing architecture (publishing).