Women Writing Architecture

Urban Design Group Library

Book

For children, Shared space

Planning for Play

1968

Lady Allen of Hurtwood

Essay

For children

Beatrix Potter’s Places

1967

Alison Smithson

Jane Hall on Beatrix Potter’s Places

Writing Memory

Book

Ways of thinking

The Art of Memory

1966

Frances Yates

Emma Letizia Jones on The Art of Memory

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Book chapter

Domesticity, Feminism

A Revolution in the Woman’s Sphere: Grete Lihotzky and the Frankfurt Kitchen

1966

Susan R. Henderson Debra Coleman (editor) Elizabeth Danze (editor) Carol Henderson (editor)

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

Book, Fiction

Wide Sargasso Sea

1966

Jean Rhys

Anne-Marie Armstrong on Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

Book

The Architects Collaborative 1945-1965

1966

Sarah P. Harkness Walter Gropius

Bene Wahlbrink on Sarah P. Harkness and the Idea of Collaboration

Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9

Book

Purity and Danger

1966

Mary Douglas

Researching Encounters

Vernacular

The Roofs of Traditional Farm Houses in Japan

1966

Vlasta Winkelhöferová

Manifesto

Feminism

No Manifesto

1965

Yvonne Rainer

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Shops and Shopping 1800-1914

1964

Alison Adburgham

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space

Centre for Urban Studies: London Aspects of Change

1964

Ruth Glass

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Book chapter

Feminism

The Problem That Has No Name

1963

Betty Friedan

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

Book

Feminism

The Feminine Mystique

1963

Betty Friedan

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

Book, Fiction

The Group

1963

Mary McCarthy

Covid Diary, January 2022

Book, Fiction

The Girls of Slender Means

1963

Muriel Spark

On success

Poetry

Ways of thinking

The applicant

1963

Sylvia Plath

The Weather Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021 Architekturtheorie (2020)

Book

Environment­alism

The Silent Spring

1962

Rachel Carson

Jihyeong Lee on The Silent Spring

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book chapter

The Need for Aged Buildings

1962

Jane Jacobs

Covid Diary, January 2022

Book, Fiction

Contact zones, Spectra

The Golden Notebook

1962

Doris Lessing

After 8 recommends

Novel

Feminism

One Thing I Know

1962

Pati Hill

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Book chapter

Shared space

The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety

1961

Jane Jacobs

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book chapter

Shared space

The Need for Small Blocks

1961

Jane Jacobs

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book chapter

Shared space

The Generators of Diversity

1961

Jane Jacobs

Urban Design Group Library ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Shared space

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

1960

Jane Jacobs

Martina Bischof on Death and Life of Great American Cities

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

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Living Space in Fact and Fiction

1959

Philippa Tristram

Annmarie Adams on Rooms with a View

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Cultivated land

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

1959

Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Urban Design Group Library ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Ways of thinking

The Human Condition

1958

Hannah Arendt

Kenneth Frampton on The Human Condition

Decoratoresses

Book

Domesticity

100 Most Beautiful Rooms in America

1958

Helen Comstock

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

Article

Vienna and the Genius Loci

1958

Susanne Lang

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

Article

Bomarzo

1957

Susanne Lang

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Vernacular

Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture

1957

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article, Book chapter

But Today We Collect Ads

1956

Alison Smithson Peter Smithson

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

Article

Shared space

Historical Aspects of the Vitruvian Tradition in Town Planning

1955

Helen Rosenau

Madame ETH

Essay

Critique

Notes on “Camp”

1954

Susan Sontag

Paul Grieguszies Schäfer on Notes on “Camp”

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

Article

The Ideal City: From Plato to Howard

1952

Susanne Lang

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book, Fiction

Companion Text, Life work

Mémoires d’Hadrien fr

1951

Marguerite Yourcenar

Asli Çiçek on Memoirs of Hadrian Adam Caruso on Memoirs of Hadrian

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

Shared space

The Shelbourne Hotel

1951

Elizabeth Bowen

Gerard Carty on The Shelbourne Hotel

Lillemors Frauenliteratur

Essay

Travel

Die Straßen um Pisa danish de

1951

Karen Blixen

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales

Book

Gender

The Art of Being a Woman

1951

Amabel Williams-Ellis

Celebrando Wera Meyer-Waldeck

Article, Monograph

Domesticity, Women as architects

Better Furnishings for West German Homes Urged by Woman Architect

1951

Wera Meyer-Waldeck

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

Article

Architecture and the French Revolution: Jean Jacque Lequeu

1949

Helen Rosenau

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

Article

Apollo or Baboon

1948

Susanne Lang

Expanding Agency

Catalogue

Construction

If You Want to Build a House

1946

Elizabeth Bauer Mock Kassler

NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water

Book, Fiction

Contact zones, For children

The River

1946

Rumer Godden

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

Book

Feminism

Woman in Art: From Type to Personality

1944

Helen Rosenau

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Ways of thinking

The Fountainhead

1943

Ayn Rand

Adam Caruso on The Fountainhead

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

Contact zones, Cultivated land

Bowen’s Court

1942

Elizabeth Bowen

Gerard Carty on Bowen’s Court

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

Shared space

Seven Winters

1942

Elizabeth Bowen

Gerard Carty on Seven Winters