Women Writing Architecture

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Glossary Terms

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Loké WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Feminism

Women, Race & Class

1981

Angela Davis

WAI Think Tank on Women, Race & Class

Decoratoresses

Book

Living Well, the NYTimes Book of Home Design and Decoration

1981

Carrie Donovan

Space as Matrix

Article

Space as Matrix

1981

Susana Torre

Seen, Heard, Built

Book

Feminism

Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought

1981

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Article, Magazine

Gender

Herspace

1981

Phyllis Birkby

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Article

Gender

Seven Hypotheses on Male and Female Principles in Architecture

1981

Margrit Kennedy

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Article

Domesticity, Gender

Kitchen Culture/Kitchen Dialectic

1981

Joan Greenbaum

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Domesticity, Gender

Electricity is Her Servant

1981

Carol Barkin

Writing Memory

My Life

1980

Lyn Hejinian

Book

Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913

1980

Gwendolyn Wright

Annmarie Adams on Moralism and the Model Home

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Architecture

1980

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

Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution

1980

Carolyn Merchant

Decoratoresses

Book

Women as architects

Footprints, an Autobiography

1980

Brooke Astor

Decoratoresses

Book

20th Century Decorating, Architecture and Gardens

1980

Mary Jane Pool

On motherhood

Feminism, Motherhood

Motherhood According to Giovanni Bellini

1980

Julia Kristeva Alice Jardine (translator) Thomas Gora (translator)

Fiona Hatz on Motherhood according to Giovanni Bellini

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

Article

Architecture and the Art of Memory

1980

Frances Yates

Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Book

Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco

1980

Janet Abu-Lughod

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture

Article

What would a non-sexist city be like?

1980

Dolores Hayden

Sasha Beketov on What Would a Non-sexist City Be Like?

Disabling Environments

Article

Care, Ways of thinking

Marriage and fertility in epileptic patients

1980

Linda Danksy Eva Andermann

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Lecture, Poetry

Ways of thinking

The Current of the River of Life Moves Us

1979

Agnes Martin

After 8 recommends Madame ETH

Book

Critique

I See / You Mean

1979

Lucy R. Lippard

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

Book

Vision of the Temple

1979

Helen Rosenau

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Novel

Feminism

Kindred

1979

Octavia E Butler

Feminism

Change, My Problem is a Problem of a Women

1979

Ewa Partum

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Report

Women as architects

Women in the architectural profession 1978

1978

Policy Studies Institute (publisher)

From Reading Zimbabwe

Book

A Town called Victoria or, The Rise and Fall of the Thatched House Hotel

1978

Katherine Sayce

Disabling Environments

Article

Domesticity, Ways of feeling

Room preference as a function of architectural features and user activities

1978

Barbara Cassidy Jennifer Kurr

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective

1977

Susana Torre (editor)

Spazio Special Collection ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Passages in Modern Sculpture

1977

Rosalind Epstein Krauss

Mariana Siracusa on Passages in Modern Sculpture

Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Narrative Time: the question of the Gates of Hell

1977

Rosalind Epstein Krauss

Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Feminism

The Combahee River Collective Statement

1977

The Combahee River Collective

WAI Think Tank on The Combahee River Collective Statement

Book

Ways of thinking

The Life of the Mind

1977

Hannah Arendt

Tatjana Blaser on The Life of the Mind

A Book I Love Madame ETH

Book

Companion Text, Travel, Writing

The Living Mountain

1977

Nan Shepherd

Helen Thomas on The Living Mountain Alicia Ayla Yerebakan on The Living Mountain Emma Kleinbölting on The Living Mountain Mona Dillier on The Living Mountain Arianna Melchiorri on The Living Mountain Yosuke Nakamoto on The Living Mountain

Feminism and Architecture

Women as architects

On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American Architecture

1977

Gwendolyn Wright

Claudia Ng on On The Fringe

Architectural Theory & Gender Studies

Article, Catalogue

Care, Domesticity, Representation, Women as architects

The Ornamental Design of the Chosun Dynasty House 조선조시대주택의 장식적의장 ko

1977

Byung-ok Chun

Gayoun Jang on The Ornamental Design of the Chosun Dynasty House

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Fantastic refuge

Book

Gender, Shared space

The Hearing Trumpet

1976

Leonora Carrington Pablo Weisz Carrington (illustrator)

Helen Thomas on The Hearing Trumpet

Book

Kicked a Building Lately?

1976

Ada Louise Huxtable

Meredith Clausen on three books by Ada Louise Huxtable

Space as Matrix

Book

Feminism

From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art

1976

Lucy R. Lippard

Article

Writing

Why I Write

1976

Joan Didion

Jaehee Shin on Why I Write

Urban Design Group Library

Book

The Home of Man

1976

Barbara Ward

Loudreaders

Book

Wages Against Housework

1975

Silvia Federici

Loudreaders on Wages Against Housework

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space, Utopia

Villages of Vision – A study of strange utopias

1975

Gillian Darley

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

For children, Women as architects

What Can She Be? An Architect

1974

Esther Goldreich Gloria Goldreich

Loké

Book

Feminism, Life work

An Autobiography

1974

Angela Davis

Erandi de Silva on An Autobiography

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Loudreaders

Fiction

Feminism

The Dispossessed

1974

Ursula K. Le Guin

Loudreaders on The Dispossessed Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

A Book I Love

Poetry

Companion Text, Ways of feeling

Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman

1974

Judy Grahn

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

From Tipi to Skyscraper: A History of Women in Architecture

1973

Doris Cole

The Book Society List Reading Room Conversations in Preparation

Domesticity, Environmentalism, Feminism, Food, For children, Gender, Oral history, Shared space, Ways of thinking

The New Woman’s Survival Catalog

1973

Kirsten Grimstad (editor) Susan Renni (editor)

Emilie Appercé on the New Woman’s Survival Catalog

Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism

Poetry

Who Said It Was Simple

1973

Audre Lorde

Youlhwadang Book Museum

Contact zones, Cultivated land, Domesticity, Vernacular

Toji 토지 ko

1973

Pak Kyongni