Women Writing Architecture

Collections are groups of citations drawn from syllabi, libraries, conversations, and events.

Annotations are citations suggested by individuals accompanied by their thoughts, opinions and research.

Types

Glossary Terms

Essay

Capitalocene, Contact zones, Feminism

Understanding Partriarchy

2004

bell hooks

Book

Care

The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

2020

The Care Collective

spacegirls girltopia

Utopia

The Wanderground

1979

Sally Miller Gearhart

spacegirls girltopia

Utopia

My Own Utopia

1963

Elisabeth Mann Borgese

spacegirls girltopia

Utopia

The Female Man

1975

Joanna Russ

A Book I Love

Fiction

Ice

1967

Anna Kavan

spacegirls girltopia

Utopia, Women as architects

The Artistic Architect danish

2025

Mia Frykholm

spacegirls girltopia

Utopia, Women as architects

Portrait of the Architect as a Young Girl danish

2025

Spacegirls

spacegirls girltopia

Contact zones, Utopia

Woman on the Edge of Time

1976

Marge Piercy

spacegirls girltopia

Friendship, Learning, Ways of feeling, Ways of thinking

Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry

2025

Sarah Shin Rebecca Tamás

Fantastic refuge

Feminism, For children, Oral history, Vernacular

The Bloody Chamber

1979

Angela Carter

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Women as architects

Resurgent Modernism: The Architecture of Namita Singh

2023

Namita Singh Gautam Bhatia

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Film

Shared space, Vernacular

The Story of Madras… Chennai

2005

Sujatha Shankar

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Film

Shared space, Vernacular

Madras – Vision of Day

1992

Sujatha Shankar

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Film

Environmentalism, Women as architects

Dhara: a film on architect Revathi Kamath

1999

Ein Lall

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Construction, Women as architects

A Call to Return: A Journey with Didi Contractor

2024

Lakshmi Menezes

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Environmentalism

Biome Diaries

2021

Chitra Vishwanath Ishita Shah Sharath Nayak Anurag Tamhankar

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

An Adobe Revival Didi Contractor’s Architecture

2017

Didi Contractor

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Mud Architecture of the Indian Desert

1992

Minakshi Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Construction, Vernacular

Mehrangarh An Ensemble of Poetic Spaces

2022

Minakshi Jain Meghal Arya Kulbhushan Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Architecture of Ridges and Valleys Myths and Realities of Himachal Pradesh

2023

Minakshi Jain I. P. Singh

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Representation, Vernacular

A Study to Promote Textile Consumers’ Knowledge and Awareness Aided by Educational Material

2013

Minakshi Jain Suman Pant

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

The Fort of Nagaur

1993

Minakshi Jain Kulbhushan Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Representation, Vernacular

Fair Trade Textiles: Today and Tomorrow With Special Reference to Rajasthan

2017

Minakshi Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Companion Text, Cultivated land, Environmentalism

Landscape Architecture History, Ecology, and Patterns

2017

Minakshi Jain I. P. Singh

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Thematic Space in Indian Architecture

2002

Minakshi Jain Kulbhushan Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Architecture of the Indian Desert

2000

Minakshi Jain Kulbhushan Jain

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Gender, Women as architects

Women And Architectural History

2024

Dana Arnold

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Gender, Shared space

Gender and the Indian City: Revisioning Design and Planning

2022

Madhavi Desai

The Architecture of Accra

Capitalocene, Shared space

Ghana-based Limbo Accra transforms urban wastelands into cultural hubs

2025

Almas Sadique

The Architecture of Accra

Online resource

Critique, Ways of thinking

Adansisem, Ghanaian Architectural Theory and Practice

2020

Kuukuwa Manful (editor)

The Architecture of Accra

Online resource

Construction, Contact zones, Shared space, Vernacular

Accra Archive

2021

Kuukuwa Manful (editor)

Contact zones, Shared space

Liberation-era Architecture in Ghana

2020

Janet Berry Hess

The Architecture of Accra

Domesticity, Vernacular

Traditional Rural Housing in the Savannah

2020

Hannah Shreckenbach

The Architecture of Accra

Architectural Design in Ghana: A Unique Amalgam

2020

Hannah Shreckenbach

The Architecture of Accra

Capitalocene, Contact zones

The Architecture of Exploitation in Ghana

2020

Amber N. Wiley

The Architecture of Accra

Indigenous Architecture in Pre-colonial Ghana

2020

Kuukuwa Manful

The Architecture of Accra

Introduction, Ghana

2020

Kuukuwa Manful

The Architecture of Accra

Critique

Challenging the Mud Hut: Nka Foundation’s Earth Architecture Competitions

2020

Juliet Sakyi-Ansah

The Architecture of Accra

Learning

Exchange, Disseminate, Empower: Online Architecture Platforms

2020

Juliet Sakyi-Ansah

The Architecture of Accra

Travel

Greater Accra and Cape Coast

2014

Amber N. Wiley

The Architecture of Accra

Article

My kind of town. Accra.

2005

Lesley Lokko

The Architecture of Accra

Article

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s colourful high-rise in Accra

2017

Joana Lazarova

The Architecture of Accra

Article

Women as architects

Mae-ling Lokko

2021

Harriet Thorpe

The Architecture of Accra

Article

What is shared about African modernism? What is African about modern heritage?

2022

Immaculata Abba

The Architecture of Accra

Article

Women as architects

Dominique Petit-Frère

2023

Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye

The Architecture of Accra

Article

Super Limbo; by Limbo Accra

2024

Luisa Nannipieri

The Architecture of Accra

Article

Critique

Accra Community Centre; Architects: Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

2025

Lois Quartey Julia Gallagher

The Architecture of Accra

Book

Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra

2024

Jennifer Hart

The Architecture of Accra

Book

Landlords and lodgers : socio-spatial organization in an Accra community

2008

Deborah Pellow