Women Writing Architecture

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Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women

2019

Jane Hall

Sonja Flury on Breaking Ground

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

The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book

Construction, Domesticity

Box Furniture: How to Make a Hundred Useful Articles for the Home

1909

Louise Brigham

Emilie Appercé on Box Furniture

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

Contact zones, Cultivated land

Bowen’s Court

1942

Elizabeth Bowen

Gerard Carty on Bowen’s Court

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?

What do buildings mean? An Iconographic Collection of Helen Rosenau, Susanne Lang and Frances Yates

Article

Bomarzo

1957

Susanne Lang

bodymind

Book

Spectra

Bodyminds Reimagined

2018

Sami Schalk

Madame ETH

Book

Gender, Spectra

Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “sex” Philosophy. Gender studies

1993

Judith Butler

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Loudreaders

Book chapter, Essay, Fiction

Feminism, Gender

Bloodchild

1995

Octavia E Butler

Loudreaders on Bloodchild

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Blanche Lemco van Ginkel

2021

Annmarie Adams Tanya Southcott

Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice

1995

bell hooks

Efua Boakye on Black Vernacular

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Gender, Spectra

Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

2017

Riley Snorton

WAI Think Tank on Black on Both Sides

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World

1970

Sylvia Wynter

WAI Think Tank on Black Metamorphosis

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Cultivated land, Shared space

Black Country Allotment Society

2014

Susie Parr

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Black + Architecture

2015

Sibylle Kramer

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Black

2020

Stella Paul

Construction, Domesticity, Vernacular

Big Swiss

2023

Jen Beagin

Helen Thomas on Big Swiss

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Book chapter, Essay

Gender

Big Jugs

1991

Jennifer Bloomer

Drawing Matter

Biba Dow on Giorgio Morandi: Group and Threshold

2020

Biba Dow

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Book

Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings

2012

Claire Panetta Deen Sharp

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Beyond Patronage: Reconsidering Models of Practice

2015

Martha Bohm

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Beyond Live/Work. The Architecture of Home- Based Work

2015

Frances Holliss

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Beverly Loraine Greene

2021

Roberta Washington

Book

Contact zones, Environmentalism

Beverly Buchanan, Marsh Ruins

2020

Amelia Groom

Helen Thomas on Buchanan (Marsh Ruins)

Contact zones, Environmentalism

Beverly Buchanan shackworks : a 16-year survey

1994

Beverly Buchanan

Helen Thomas on Buchanan (Marsh Ruins)

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Beverly Ann Willis

2021

Wanda Bubriski

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Feminism

Between Landscape and Confinement: Situating the Writings of Mary Wollstonecraft

2017

Emma Cheatle

Elena Rieger on Between the Landscape and Confinement Zofia Krupa on Between the Landscape and Confinement

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Article, Monograph

Domesticity, Women as architects

Better Furnishings for West German Homes Urged by Woman Architect

1951

Wera Meyer-Waldeck

S AM Publications

Book

Bengal Stream: The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh

2017

Viviane Ehrensberger Andreas Ruby Niklaus Graber

Book

Belonging: A Culture of Place

2008

bell hooks

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

Parity in History?

Book

Behind the Scenes

1868

Elizabeth Keckley

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 9

2019

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 8

2018

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 7

2018

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 6

2018

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 5

2018

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 4

2018

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 3

2018

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 2

2017

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 14

2020

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 13

2019

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 12

2019

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 11

2019

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 10

2019

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 1

2017

Philippa Lewis

The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library

Book

Spectra, Ways of feeling

Behind Straight Curtains Towards a Queer Feminist Theory of Architecture

2007

Katarina Bonnevier

Milena Buchwalder on Behind Straight Curtains

After 8 recommends Madame ETH

Essay

Ways of thinking

Bee Reaved

2021

Dodie Bellamy

Essay

Beatrix Potter’s Places

1967

Alison Smithson

Jane Hall on Beatrix Potter’s Places

Book

Feminism, Gender, Women as architects

Bauhaus women. A global perspective.

2019

Elizabeth Otto (editor)