Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Article

Backward Ho!

1872

Frances Power Cobbe

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Notes on Hospitals

1859

Florence Nightingale

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

The Beauties of the Bosphorus

1814

Julia Pardoe

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

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

A Visit to Italy

1842

Frances Trollope

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Diary

Travel

Travel Journal

1707

Elizabeth Burnet

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Poetry

Burning Lord’s and Common’s

1836

Caroline Norton

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

The Pleasures of Architecture

1924

Amabel Williams-Ellis Clough Williams-Ellis

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Shops and Shopping 1800-1914

1964

Alison Adburgham

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Article, Review

Half-Wrecked: What’s left of John Soane

2000

Mary Beard

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Article

Domesticity, Shared space

‘What Part of Bath Do You Think They Will Settle In?’: Jane Austen’s Use of Bath in ‘Persuasion’

2001

Keiko Parker

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture

1914

Gertrude Bell

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Architecture

1980

Valerie Wigfall Rosalie Silverstone (editor) Audrey Ward (editor)

Thinking & Writing Place Feminism and Architecture Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel Madame ETH Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021 Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Fantastic refuge

Book

Companion Text, Domesticity, Feminism

A Room of One’s Own

1929

Virginia Woolf

Hirante Welandawe on A Room of One’s Own Maria Conen on A Room of One’s Own Valerie Keller on A Room of One’s Own

Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Domesticity, Shared space

Pride and Prejudice

1813

Jane Austen

Adam Caruso on Pride and Prejudice

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Ways of thinking

The Fountainhead

1943

Ayn Rand

Adam Caruso on The Fountainhead

Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9 Madame ETH ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021) Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book

Companion Text, Domesticity, Feminism

The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities

1981

Dolores Hayden

Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution

Feminism and Architecture

Feminism

Unforgetting Women Architects: From the Pritzker to Wikipedia

2016

Despina Stratigakos

Wiki Women Design on Unforgetting Women Architects Juliette Bélanger on Unforgetting Women Architects

Article

Concert Hall notebook: a record of fifteen months on the site 1951

1999

Jean Symons

Hélène Solvay on Concert Hall Notebook 1951

African State Architecture

Workers’ Museum in Johannesburg

2020

Julia Gallagher

African State Architecture

Jerfix Studios in Accra

2020

Kuukuwa Manful

African State Architecture

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia building in Addis Ababa

2020

Joanne Tomkinson

African State Architecture

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo

2020

Joy Rukanzakanza

African State Architecture

The Arul Mihu Navasakthi Vinayagar temple, Seychelles

2020

Hangwei Li

African State Architecture

Old Bank building, Guinea Bissau

2020

Ana Djú Isa Lopes da Costa

African State Architecture

Oliver Tambo Heritage House, Zambia

2020

Kamfwa Sandu

African State Architecture

The Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra, Ghana

2020

Irene Addo

African State Architecture

The Nation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

2020

Marie Gibert

African State Architecture

Eastgate Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe

2020

Tondi Koschke

African State Architecture

Hassan Fathy’s New Gourna Village project, Egypt

2021

Awut Atak

Feminism and Architecture

Book

Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900

1996

Annmarie Adams

Despina Stratigakos on Architecture in the Family Way

Drawing Matter

François-Joseph Bélanger

2016

Olivia Edmondson

Drawing Matter

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

2016

Helen Thomas

Drawing Matter

The Stones of John Ruskin

2016

Karen Eve Johnson

Drawing Matter

Michael Graves

2016

Helen Thomas

Drawing Matter

Cedric Price: Bathat

2016

Helen Mallinson

Drawing Matter

Notes on the 2016 Summer School

2016

Helen Mallinson

Drawing Matter

Barthélemy Enfantin

2016

Helen Thomas

Drawing Matter

High Ground

2016

Colette Sheddick

Drawing Matter

Malagueira and Évora, Portugal

2016

Cathy Hawley

Drawing Matter

Fontaine: Model for a Music Room

2016

Ana Araujo

Drawing Matter

Alexander Brodsky

2016

Marie Coulon

Drawing Matter

Mies: The Double or Panoramic Structure of the Perspective

2016

Desley Luscombe

Drawing Matter

Paul Robbrecht

2016

Rosemary Willink

Drawing Matter

The Black Drawings of Marie-José van Hee

2016

Helen Thomas

Drawing Matter

Representation, Travel

Charles Barry: Travel Sketching

2016

Rachel Blissett

Drawing Matter

Marie–José Van Hee: Black Drawings

2017

Els Claessens Tania Vandenbussche Helen Thomas (editor)

Drawing Matter

The Destruction of the City of Homs

2017

Deanna Petherbridge

Drawing Matter

Aitchison / Prendergast

2016

Helen Thomas

Drawing Matter

Jessie Brennan

2017

Olivia Horsfall Turner