Women Writing Architecture

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Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Power Pursuit of Political Urbanism: Recounting Housing Prototypes & their Domestic Narratives

2019

Simran Singh

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

The Kurtna Kolkhoz: Architectural Representations of Soviet and Post-Soviet Society

2019

Sonia Sobrino Ralston

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Monsieur Hulot

2019

Marta Malinverni Alex Turner

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Hymn to Progress: Pier Luigi Nervi’s Burgo Paper Mill

2019

Diletta Trinari Simone Marcolin

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Acceptance as progress

2019

Sara Davin Omar Felicia Narumi Liang

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

A Contradictory Reading of Facts and Urban Spaces: The Rhetoric of Progress

2019

Chiara Davino Lorenza Villani

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Utopia

(Fake) News From Nowhere: Utopia Against Stagnation

2019

Julia Dorn

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Stepping Back to Make Progress

2019

Jeannette Kuo

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

The Contemporary Ruin – Material Frictions in Times of Flux

2019

Charly Blödel

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Rethinking Intimacy and the City

2020

Alexandra Pereira-Edwards

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Broken love machine, or how to live a great love

2020

Mariana Meneguetti

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

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Know your DestinE – or how to clone your Planet

2020

State of the Hearts

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

The Soft Infrastructure of Data Exhaust at RAND

2020

Kylie King Brett Zehner

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

RT3DDT: poetics of synchronization

2020

Alina Nazmeeva

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Monuments of Visible Order

2010

Gillian Shaffer

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

I am the Theater: An account of the paradoxical layers of invisible forces of Western oppression

2020

Viola Ago

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Baseline

2020

Maša Tomšič

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Mainstreet is Almost Alright: Repeat to Delete

2020

Lena Appel

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Classifying the Déclassé: A Non-Methodological Methodology

2020

Annebella Pollen

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Tissue Architecture and Organogensis

2020

Meritxell Huch Alex Thake

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Online resource

Women as architects

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

2021

Mary McLeod (editor) Victoria Rosner (editor)

Book

Gender, Spectra

Can The Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

2021

Paul B. Preciado Frank Wynne (translator)

Book

Forms of Practice

2012

Irina Davidovici

Yeshi Wang on Forms of Practice

Parity in History? Conversations in Preparation

Book

Feminism

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman de

1986

Mary Wollstonecraft

Anouk Fischer on Vindication of the Rights of Men Lea Graziani on Vindication of the Rights of Men

Loké Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Conversations in Preparation

Book

Having Words

2009

Denise Scott Brown

Barbara Thüler on Having Words

The Book Society List Reading Room Conversations in Preparation

Domesticity, Environmentalism, Feminism, Food, For children, Gender, Oral history, Shared space, Ways of thinking

The New Woman’s Survival Catalog

1973

Kirsten Grimstad (editor) Susan Renni (editor)

Emilie Appercé on the New Woman’s Survival Catalog

Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Feminism

Feminist Architecture: From A to Z

2018

Jane Rendell

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

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

2019

Mimi Zeiger

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Fabricating Architecture: Digital Craft as Feminist Practice

2017

Shelby Doyle Leslie Forehand

Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Environmentalism, Feminism

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

2017

Claire Napawan Ellen Burke Sahoko Yui

Parlour Reading Room 6: Intersectional practice – a DIY manifesto Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Only resist: a feminist approach to critical spatial practice

2018

Jane Rendell

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design

2018

Alexandra Lange

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Why Nicolai Ouroussoff is not Good Enough

2010

Alexandra Lange

Zofia Hansen in Szumin Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Breaking Ground book on buildings by women ‘is both needed and problematic’

2020

Mimi Zeiger

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Feminism, Shared space

The Case for Safe Spaces

2016

Anne-Laure White

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Gender

Lecture Three : Cross-Cladding

2007

Katarina Bonnevier

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Domesticity at War

2007

Beatriz Colomina

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Article

Gender, Spectra

Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept

2005

Raewyn Connell James W. Messerschmidt

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education

2020

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution

1980

Carolyn Merchant

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Feminism

Data Feminism

2020

Catherine D’Ignazio Lauren Klein

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

ENGAGEMENT’s Statement and Tools

2018

ENGAGEMENT

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Spectra

Countersexual Manifesto

2018

Paul B. Preciado

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Violence by Design: Resisting Carceral Logic for Architects and Designers

2020

The FUNAMBULIST (editor) Spectra Studio (editor) After Hours (editor)

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations

2019

Elizabeth Allison (editor) Kenneth Worthy (editor) Whitney A. Bauman (editor)

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Feminism

Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

2018

Silvia Federici

Fantastic refuge

Essay

Utopia

Sultana’s Dream

1905

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes on Sultana’s Dream

Book

Cultivated land, Ways of thinking

The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society

1997

Lucy R. Lippard

Mariana Siracusa on The Lure of the Local

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Gender

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

2003

bell hooks

WAI Think Tank on Teaching Community