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

Book

Companion Text, Food

I’ll Be with You in the Squeezing of a Lemon

1960

Elizabeth David

Roz Barr on I’ll Be with You in the Squeezing of a Lemon

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Agnes Martin: Writings de

2005

Agnes Martin Dieter Schwarz (editor)

Roz Barr on Agnes Martin

Architectural Theory & Gender Studies Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Sexuality and Space

1992

Beatriz Colomina

Roz Barr on Sexuality and Space

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Critique

The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion

1997

Ada Louise Huxtable

Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable

Book

Critique

Goodbye History, Hello Hamburger

1986

Ada Louise Huxtable

Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable

Book

Kicked a Building Lately?

1976

Ada Louise Huxtable

Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable

Drawing Matter

Keshi Ghat

2021

Amrutha Viswanath

Drawing Matter

Medieval Masons and Tracing-Floors

2021

Jennifer Smith

Drawing Matter

Open Wide/Wide Open

2021

Angharad Davies

Drawing Matter

Pan Scroll Zoom 11: Architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck

2021

Inge Vinck Jan de Vylder Fabrizio Gallanti

Drawing Matter

The Vitruvian Man: with Fresh Eyes

2021

Niamh Murphy

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Adam Bede’s ‘Discourse on Building’ (1859)

2021

George Eliot

Drawing Matter

Online article, Review

Review: Flores & Prats Sala Beckett

2021

Helen Thomas

Drawing Matter

André Arbus: Details Matter

2021

Anna Healy

Drawing Matter

Marie-José Van Hee: Seeing not Showing

2021

Tessa Baird

Drawing Matter

Cedric Price: Urban Spaceman

2021

Ana Bonet Miró

Drawing Matter

Haunted: Robert Smithson’s ‘My House is a Decayed House’

2021

Suzaan Boettger

Drawing Matter

Lauretta Vinciarelli: Homogeneous and Non-homogeneous Grids

2021

Drawing Matter

The Mars Group’s Plan for London, 1933-1944

2021

Mirjam Kupferschmid

Drawing Matter

Charles Peach: Church Plan Based on the Figure of Christ

2021

Mireya Fabregas

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

Book

Ways of feeling

The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening

2018

Salomé Voegelin

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

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

Article

Shared space, Ways of feeling

Urban spectralisms: Relational design approaches for orchestrating and sharing space

2019

Nadine Schütz

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

Book

Ways of feeling

Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice

2005

Pauline Oliveros

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

Book

Ways of feeling

Anthology of Essays on Deep Listening

2012

Monique Buzzarté (editor) Tom Bickley (editor)

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

Book

Environmentalism, Feminism, Ways of thinking

Ecofeminist Philosophy: A Western Perspective on What it is and Why it Matters

2000

Karen Warren

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

Book

Environmentalism, Feminism

Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature

1997

Karen Warren (editor)

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

Environmentalism, Feminism

Women of Color, Environmental Justice, and Ecofeminism

1997

Dorceta Taylor

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

Book

Environmentalism

Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development

1989

Vandana Shiva

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

Book

Environmentalism, Feminism

Ecofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern

2017

Ariel Salleh

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

Book

Environmentalism, Feminism

Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

1990

Val Plumwood

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

Book

Environmentalism, Feminism

Ecofeminism

1993

Maria Mies Vandana Shiva

Soo Jin Kim on Jeju Haenyeo Collective

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

Essay

Environmentalism, Feminism, Gender, Spectra

Toward a Queer Ecofeminism

1997

Greta Gaard

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment (2015-2018) Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

Shared space, Spectra

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza es

1987

Gloria Anzaldúa

Anoma Pieris on Borderlands/La Frontera and Can the Subaltern Speak?

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

Essay

Environmentalism, Feminism

The Gender and the Environment Debate: Lessons from India

1992

Bina Agarwal

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

Fiction

Gender

Orlando: A Biography

1928

Virginia Woolf

Anne-Marie Armstrong on Orlando Tatjana Blaser on Orlando

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

Book

Feminism

Parité!: Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism

2005

Joan Wallach Scott

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

Book

Feminism

Men Explain Things to Me

2014

Rebecca Solnit

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

Book

SCUM Manifesto

1968

Valerie Solanas

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

Fiction, Poetry

The Bell Jar

1966

Sylvia Plath

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Seen, Heard, Built Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments The Foyer. A Unique Narrative atelier Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

Feminism

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

2019

Caroline Criado Perez

Blanca Vives on Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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

Book

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

1850

Sojourner Truth

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

Book

Contact zones, Feminism, Vernacular

Woman, Native, Other : Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism de

1989

Trinh T. Minh-ha

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

Book

Environmentalism, Feminism

Feminism and Ecology

1997

Mary Mellor

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

The Group

1963

Mary McCarthy

Urban Design Group Library Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

Feminism, Shared space, Spectra

Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

2020

Leslie Kern

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

Book

Feminism

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

2020

Mikki Kendall

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

Book

Feminism

Ain’t I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism

2008

bell hooks

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

Book

Feminism

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

2000

bell hooks

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

Book

Capitalocene, Gender

The Haraway Reader

2003

Donna Haraway