Women Writing Architecture

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Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

Architecture of the Indian Desert

2000

Minakshi Jain Kulbhushan Jain

Book

House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe

1999

Donna Birdwell-Pheasant (editor) Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga (editor)

Annmarie Adams on House Life

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Domesticity, Spectra

Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement

1999

Sara Ahmed

Article

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

1999

Jean Symons

Hélène Solvay on Concert Hall Notebook 1951

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Feminism

About Canons and Culture Wars

1999

Griselda Pollock

Decoratoresses

Book

Influential Interiors: Shaping 20th Century Style through Key Interior Designers

1999

Suzanne Trocme

Finnish Women Writing

Cities as Texts: Urban Practices Represented or Forgotten in Art History

1999

A K Nevanlinna

Book

Critique

Architecture and Modernity: A Critique

1999

Hilde Heynen

Jihyeong Lee on The Silent Spring

On success

Book

Ways of thinking

All About Love: New Visions

1999

bell hooks

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Film

Environmentalism, Women as architects

Dhara: a film on architect Revathi Kamath

1999

Ein Lall

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Annmarie Adams on Women and the Making of the Modern House

Book

The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life

1998

Nancy Tomes

Annmarie Adams on The Gospel of Germs

Loké Madame ETH

Book

Life work, Women as architects

The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect

1998

Minnette de Silva

Erandi de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect Shayari de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect

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

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

Edith Farnsworth, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Article

Gender

Invisible Contributions: The Problem of History and Women Architects

1998

Julie Willis

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Travel

The Female Gaze: Encounters in the Zenana

1998

Indira Ghose

Feminism and Architecture

People Who Live in Glass Houses

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Elif Kurkcu on People who Live in Glass Houses

Disabling Environments

Book

Spectra

Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity

1998

Simi Linton

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Gender

Solving the Gender Puzzle

1998

Kate Bornstein

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Article

Gender

Sex in public

1998

Lauren Berlant Michael Warner

Book

Writing

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day

1998

Joan Bolker

Katerina Chalvatzi on How to Write your Dissertation

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Shared space, Vernacular

The Architecture of an Island

1998

Barbara Sansoni Ronald Lewcock Laki Senanayake

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Drawing on Diversity: Women, Architecture and Practice

1997

Lynne Walker

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

Meret Oppenheim: Beyond the Teacup

1997

Jacqueline Burckhardt Bice Curiger (editor)

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

Essay

Environmentalism, Feminism, Gender, Spectra

Toward a Queer Ecofeminism

1997

Greta Gaard

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, Feminism

Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature

1997

Karen Warren (editor)

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Critique

The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion

1997

Ada Louise Huxtable

Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable

Loudreaders

Book

Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

1997

Saidiya Hartman

Loudreaders on Scenes of Subjection

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

Finnish Women Writing Curating Artek and the Aaltos

Article, Journal

Women as architects

Designing a Room of One’s Own: The Architect Aino Marsio-Aalto and Artek

1997

Renja Suominen-Kokkonen

Loké New Order: Unit 3 at Kingston School of Art

Contact zones, Gentleness

The God of Small Things

1997

Arundhati Roy

Laura Evans and Hiyala Shafeeq on The God of Small Things

I Love Dick

1997

Chris Kraus

Annamaria Prandi on I love Dick Reba Maybury and Lucy Mackenzie on I Love Dick

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Feminism

Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture

1997

Mira Schor

Space as Matrix

Book

The Power of Place

1997

Dolores Hayden

Emilie Appercé on The Power of Place

Cyberfeminism Index

Book

Zeros and Ones: Women and the New Technoculture

1997

Sadie Plant

Disabling Environments

Book

Feminism, Spectra

The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability

1997

Susan Wendell

Book

Drawn from African Dwellings

1997

Trinh T. Minh-ha Jean-Paul Bourdier

Book

The Scottish Home

1996

Annette Carruthers

Annmarie Adams on The Scottish Home

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender, Women as architects

The Architect: Reconstructing her Practice

1996

Francesca Hughes (editor)

Annmarie Adams on The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice

Book

All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890

1996

Maureen Ogle

Annmarie Adams on All the Modern Conveniences

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

Desiring Practices: Architecture, Gender and the Interdisciplinary

1996

Sarah Wigglesworth (editor) Katerina Rüedi (editor) Duncan McCorquodale (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

The Sex of Architecture

1996

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

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Feminism

Architecture and Feminism

1996

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

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

Diary, Manuscript

Life work, Oral history

Jane Drew Memoirs (unpublished)

1996

Jane Drew

Mary Norman Woods on Jane Drew Memoirs

Book

Giorgione: The Painter of Poetic Brevity

1996

Jaynie Anderson

Emma Letizia Jones on Giorgione and Crossing Cultures