Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

House of Fear: Notes from Down Below

1988

Leonora Carrington

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter, Essay

Being Modern Together: Le Corbusier’s Villa Stein–de Monzie

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Amaza’s Azurest: Modern Architecture and the ‘New Negro’ Woman

2019

Jacqueline Taylor

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Modernism’s Missing Children: Mass Production and Human Reproduction

2020

Victoria Rosner

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Article

Feminism

Frank Lloyd Wright and Feminism: Mamah Borthwick’s Letters to Ellen Kay

2002

Alice T. Friedman

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Family Matters: The Schroeder House by Gerrit Rietveld and Truus Schroeder

1998

Alice T. Friedman Maristella Casciato

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Article

Wood or Metal?

1929

Charlotte Perriand

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Essay

Domesticity, Food

Passages from Why I Became an Architect

1928

Grete Schütte-Lihotzky

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Article

Domesticity, Gender

Queering the Home: The Domestic Labor of Lesbian and Gay Couples in Contemporary England

2015

Carla Barrett

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

Spunk

1925

Zora Neale Hurston

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

Feminism

The Awakening

1899

Kate Chopin

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Domesticity, Spectra

The Uncanny Architect: Fears of Lesbian Builders and Deviant Homes in Modern Germany

2005

Despina Stratigakos

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Gender

Mirror Images: Technology, Consumption, and the Representation of Gender in American Architecture since World War II

1996

Joan Ockman Diana Agrest (editor) Leslie Kanes Weisman (editor) Patricia Conway (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article

Gender

The Diversity of Women’s Engagement with Modern Architecture and Design: Three Case Studies

2019

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

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)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Book

Gender

Modern Women: Modern Artists at the Museum of Modern Art

2010

Cornelia Butler (editor) Alexandra Schwartz (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Pop Off: Reply to Kenneth Frampton

1984

Denise Scott Brown

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Learning from Pop

1984

Denise Scott Brown

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article, Book chapter

But Today We Collect Ads

1956

Alison Smithson Peter Smithson

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Feminism

Everyday and ‘Other’ Spaces

1996

Mary McLeod Debra Coleman (editor) Elizabeth Danze (editor) Carol Henderson (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Gender

Undressing Architecture: Fashion, Gender, and Modernity

1994

Mary McLeod Deborah Fausch (editor) Paulette Singley (editor) Zvi Efrat (editor) Rodophe El-Khoury (editor)

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

‘A citizen as well as a housewife’: New Spaces of Domesticity in 1930s London

2005

Elizabeth Darling Hilde Heynen (editor) Gülsüm Baydar (editor)

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

New Designs for Living: Domestic Equipment of Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, and Pierre Jeanneret, 1928-29

2003

Mary McLeod (editor)

Feminism and Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Gender

Battle Lines: E. 1027

1996

Beatriz Colomina Diana Agrest (editor) Patricia Conway (editor) Leslie Kanes Weisman (editor)

Isabel Cano on Battle Lines: E.1027

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article

De l’éclectisme au doute (From Eclecticism to Doubt) fr

1929

Eileen Gray Jean Badovici

Charly Jolliet on De l’éclectisme au doute

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Domesticity, Feminism

A Revolution in the Woman’s Sphere: Grete Lihotzky and the Frankfurt Kitchen

1966

Susan R. Henderson Debra Coleman (editor) Elizabeth Danze (editor) Carol Henderson (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article

Feminism, Shared space

Women’s Environmental Rights: A Manifesto

1981

Leslie Kanes Weisman

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Feminism

The Problem That Has No Name

1963

Betty Friedan

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Introduction: Modernism and Domestic Life in the Machine Age

2020

Victoria Rosner

Book

Ways of thinking

Organicism in Nineteenth Century Architecture: An Inquiry into Its Theoretical and Philosophical Background

1993

Caroline van Eck

Eireen Schreurs on Organicism in Nineteenth Century Architecture

The 11th Book : Episode 18 Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Fiction

The Yellow Wallpaper

1892

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Domestic Reform and European Modern Architecture: Charlotte Perriand, Grete Lihotzky, and Elizabeth Denby

2010

Mary McLeod Cornelia Butler (editor) Alexandra Schwartz (editor)

Book

Gender

An Emancipated Place

2001

Brinda Somaya Urvashi Mehta

Brinda Somaya on An Emancipated Place

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Spring Semester Readings 2022 Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021 Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021 Fantastic refuge

Fiction

Feminism, Shared space, Utopia

Herland

1915

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Julie Bovier, Lea Muttoni, Donata De Leso on Herland

Book

Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum

2000

Kalpana Sharma

Nandini Somaya Sampat on Rediscovering Dharavi

Book

The Clan of the Cave Bear

1890

Jean M. Auel

Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Clan of the Cave Bear

Book

Feminism

Chup: Breaking the Silence About India’s Women

2019

Deepa Narayan

Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on Chup

Book

Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence

2009

Jaynie Anderson

Emma Letizia Jones on Giorgione and Crossing Cultures

Book

Giorgione: The Painter of Poetic Brevity

1996

Jaynie Anderson

Emma Letizia Jones on Giorgione and Crossing Cultures

Book

Writing

The Printed and the Built: Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century

2018

Mari Hvattum (editor) Anne Hultzsch (editor)

Emma Letizia Jones on The Printed and the Built

Book

Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction

2017

Mari Lending

Emma Letizia Jones on Plaster Monuments

Book

Life work, Representation

Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture

2008

Cammy Brothers

Emma Letizia Jones on Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture

Madame ETH

Book

Brinda Somaya: Works and Continuities An Architectural Monograph

2018

Nandini Somaya Sampat (editor)

Mary Norman Woods on Brinda Somaya Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on Brinda Somaya

Article

Gender, Shared space

The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity

1985

Janet Wolff

Mary Norman Woods on The Invisible Flâneuse

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Feminism

Why have there been no Great Women Artists?

1971

Linda Nochlin Vivian Gornick (editor) Barbara K. Moran (editor)

Mary Norman Woods on Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Maria Conen on Why have there been no Great Women Artists?

Diary, Manuscript

Life work, Oral history

Jane Drew Memoirs (unpublished)

1996

Jane Drew

Mary Norman Woods on Jane Drew Memoirs

On motherhood Lillemors Frauenliteratur

Feminism, Motherhood

The Handmaid’s Tale

1985

Margaret Atwood

Stéphanie Dadour on The Handmaid’s Tale

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

White is for Witching

2009

Helen Oyeyemi

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Fiction

The Lost Word

1907

Evelyn Underhill

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Article

Travel

Notes on Yucatan

1879

Alice Dixon Le Plongeon