Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Book

Women as architects

Making Space A history of New Zealand women in architecture

2022

Elizabeth Cox (editor)

Julie Willis on A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Making Ourselves at Home: Women Builders and Designers

1995

Janice Goldfrank

What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates

Lecture

Ways of thinking

Making Feminist Memories: Woman in Art: From Type to Personality by Helen Rosenau

2014

Griselda Pollock

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Mainstreet is Almost Alright: Repeat to Delete

2020

Lena Appel

Book

Magic Candies

2021

Hee-na Baek (illustrator) Sophie Bowman (translator)

Hyeri Lee on Cloud Bread, Moon Sherbet, Magic Candies, etc.

Madelon Vriesendorp

2018

Madelon Vriesendorp

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

Shared space, Spectra

Made Possible: Stories of Success by People with Learning Disabilities

2020

Saba Salman

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Lutah Maria Riggs

2021

Irene Cheng

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Ways of feeling

Lumitecture: Illuminating Interiors For Designers & Architects

2012

Anna Yudina

Companion Text, Feminism

Louise Lawler’s Rude Museum

2013

Rosalyn Deutsche

Monica Ciobotar on Louise Lawler’s Rude Museum

Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat

Book

Louise Lawler (October Files #14)

2013

Louise Lawler

On motherhood

Review

Critique, Motherhood

Louise Bourgeois: Conversation with Frances Morris

2021

Phyllida Barlow

Huiyao Fu on Eva Hesse: Lost for Words and Louise Bourgeois: Conversation with Frances Morris

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Louise Blanchard Bethune

2021

Kelly Hayes McAlonie

Drawing Matter

Louis Kahn: In Praise of shadows

2021

Emerald Liu

After 8 recommends

Contact zones, Ways of thinking

Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And

2021

Lorraine O’Grady

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Looking for the “Absent” Women in Mufassal Towns of Colonial Bengal

2021

Tania Sengupta

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Lois Lilley Howe

2021

Andrea Jeanne Merrett

Drawing Matter

Loggia Mercato Nuovo, Florence

2017

Lauren Jacobi

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Book

Life work, Representation

Livio Vacchini. Disegni/Drawings/Drawings fr it

2017

Claudia Mion Giacomo Ortalli

The Author Speaks

Book

Capitalocene, Care, Environmentalism, Feminism, Ways of thinking

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

2023

Elke Krasny

Decoratoresses

Book

Living Well, the NYTimes Book of Home Design and Decoration

1981

Carrie Donovan

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Living Space in Fact and Fiction

1959

Philippa Tristram

Annmarie Adams on Rooms with a View

Seen, Heard, Built Thinking & Writing Place Parlour Reading Room 6: Intersectional practice – a DIY manifesto Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Feminism

Living a Feminist Life

2017

Sara Ahmed

Soo Jin Kim on A Killjoy Survival Kit

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

Book

Ways of feeling

Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art

2010

Salomé Voegelin

Drawing Matter

Lina Bo Bardi: Public Plaza and Museum of Art São Paolo

2018

Helen Thomas

Livraria Megafauna – A bookshop selection Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Women as architects

Lina Bo Bardi: Habitat

2020

Catherine Otondo Jose Esparza Chong Cuy (editor)

Isabela Ferrari Rey Carneiro on Megafauna Bookshop

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Lilian J. Rice

2021

Diane Y. Welch

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Lighting the way for women and girls

2021

Hoa Yang

Book

Light Revealing Architecture

1996

Marietta Millet

Jiawei Wu on Light Revealing Architecture

Parity in History?

Book

Life in Mexico during a Residence of Two Years in that Country

1843

Frances Erskine Inglis

Adrienne Enz on Life in Mexico Xinghe Guo on Life in Mexico Monika Grabski on Life in Mexico Maria Vittoria Giani on Life in Mexico Valmira Haziri on Life in Mexico

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

Letters Written During a Tour Through Normandy, Brittany and Other Parts of France in 1818

1820

Anna Eliza Bray

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Travel

Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

1796

Mary Wollstonecraft

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Article

Gender, Shared space

Let’s sign bathrooms by amenity, not by gender

2018

Simona Castricum

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Lessons from the British and French New Towns, Paradise Lost

2021

Natalia Krysiak Bob Colenutt David Fée

Space as Matrix

Critique

Legend of the Necessary Dreamer

2017

Maria Fusco

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Gender

Lecture Three : Cross-Cladding

2007

Katarina Bonnevier

Article

Learning to Feel

2021

Fiona Kenney

Loudreaders

Gender, Spectra

Learning to Become an Extremophile: Trans Symbiosis and Survival in Berlin

2020

Ged Ribas Goody

Loudreaders on Learning to Become an Extremophile

Article

Gender

Learning From the Virus

2020

Paul B. Preciado Molly Stevens (translator)

Loudreaders on Learning From the Virus

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Learning from Pop

1984

Denise Scott Brown

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space, Vernacular

Learning from Las Vegas

1972

Denise Scott Brown Robert Venturi Steven Izenour

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Learning From China

2021

Ana Martins

Eureka! Touring Library

Book

Le Corbusier

2015

Maria Antonietta Crippa

Drawing Matter

Lauretta Vinciarelli’s West Texas Types

2019

Caitlin Murray

Drawing Matter

Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-homogeneous Grids

2021

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

László Moholy-Nagy and Alvar Aalto’s Biocentric Vision of Design and their Admiration for Invisible Structures: “Elastic” Standardization as Biosemiotics

2020

Marianna Charitonidou

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Travel

Landscape aesthetics and the paradox of the female picturesque

1995

Elizabeth A. Bohls

Disabling Environments

Online resource, Report

Capitalocene, Care, Environmentalism

Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

2018

Sonya Ayeb-Karlsson et. al.

Book

Cultivated land

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

2015

Lesley Poling-Kempes

Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano on Ladies of the Canyons

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

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

1996

Esther da Costa Meyer Patricia Conway (editor) Diana Agrest (editor) Joan Ockman (editor)