Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales

Book

All Stracheys are Cousins

1983

Amabel Williams-Ellis

Drawing Matter

All Change on Change Alley

2017

Celina Fox

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Alice J. Hands

2021

Sarah Allaback

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Alice Constance Austin

2021

Dolores Hayden

Decoratoresses

Book

Alfred H Barr Jr: Missionary of the Modern

1989

Alice Goldfarb Marquis

Drawing Matter

Alexander Brodsky

2016

Marie Coulon

Drawing Matter

Aldo Rossi: Divination of a Drawing

2021

Chloe Spiby Loh

Drawing Matter

AL_A: V&A Exhibition Road Quarter

2018

Amanda Levete

Drawing Matter

Aitchison / Prendergast

2016

Helen Thomas

Article

Environmentalism, Ways of feeling

Air as Medium

2018

Eva Horn

Matthew Phillips on Air as Medium

Finnish Women Writing Curating Artek and the Aaltos

Book

Women as architects

Aino and Alvar Aalto: A Shared Journey: Interpretations of an Everyday Modernism

2007

Renja Suominen-Kokkonen

Curating Artek and the Aaltos

Book

Life work, Women as architects

Aino Aalto

2004

Ulla Kinnunen (editor)

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

Book

Feminism

Ain’t I A Woman? Black Women and Feminism

2008

bell hooks

Reading Room

Feminism

Ahmed for Architecture Students

2019

Brady Burroughs

Amy Perkins on Ahmed for Architecture Students

Youlhwadang Book Museum

Contact zones, Critique, Ways of thinking

Ahlam Shibli

2020

Ahlam Shibli

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Contact zones, Vernacular

Agra: The Architectural Heritage

2010

Lucy Peck

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Agnes Martin: Writings de

2005

Agnes Martin Dieter Schwarz (editor)

Roz Barr on Agnes Martin

Hochparterre Bücher recommends

Book

Aglaia Konrad. Japan Works

2021

Aglaia Konrad

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Care, Shared space

Age-Inclusive Public Space

2020

Dominique Hauderowicz (editor) Kristian Ly Serena (editor)

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Journal

Critique, Feminism, Gender, Ways of thinking

Against Innocence : Race, Gender, and the politics of Safety

2012

Jackie Wang

Book

Spectra

Against Ageism. A Queer Manifesto

2023

Simon(e) von Saarloos

Shen He on texts by Simon(e) von Saarloos

Journal

AG 4 – Tiergarten

2021

Sandra Bartoli Silvan Linden

Francisco Moura Veiga on AG 4 – Tiergarten

Space as Matrix

Book

After the Night

2013

Everyone Agrees

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations

2019

Elizabeth Allison (editor) Kenneth Worthy (editor) Whitney A. Bauman (editor)

ISBN+ – A bookshop selection

Book

Spectra

After Dreams; I dare to Defy the Damage

2022

Zsófia Keresztes

Decoratoresses

Book

After All

1935

Elsie de Wolfe

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Conversations in Preparation

Book

Gender

African Nomadic Architecture: Space, Place and Gender

1995

Labelle Prussin (editor)

Loké

Book

Contact zones, Travel, Vernacular

Africa Adorned

1984

Angela Fisher

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Adam Bede’s ‘Discourse on Building’ (1859)

2021

George Eliot

Pioneering Women of American Architecture

Women as architects

Ada Louise Huxtable

2021

Meredith Clausen

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Acceptance as progress

2019

Sara Davin Omar Felicia Narumi Liang

Loudreaders

Book

Feminism

Absolute Equality: An Early Feminist Perspective

2009

Luisa Capetillo Lara Walker (translator)

Loudreaders on Absolute Equality

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Feminism

About Canons and Culture Wars

1999

Griselda Pollock

Cartha 2018: Building Identity

About Bridges

2018

Hannah Maren Strothmann

Curating Artek and the Aaltos

Women as architects

Aalto and the Tutelary Goddess

2004

Sarah Menin

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel

Book

Women as architects

AA women in architecture, 1917–2017

2017

Elizabeth Darling (editor) Lynne Walker (editor)

Expanding Agency

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid

2015

Nancy Kwak

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel

Book

A women’s Berlin: Building the modern city

2008

Despina Stratigakos

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

Travel

A Visit to Italy

1842

Frances Trollope

Parity in History? Conversations in Preparation

Book

Feminism

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman de

1986

Mary Wollstonecraft

Anouk Fischer on Vindication of the Rights of Men Lea Graziani on Vindication of the Rights of Men

From Reading Zimbabwe

Book

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

1978

Katherine Sayce

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Travel

A Tour in Switzerland: Or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris

1798

Helen Maria Williams

Anne Hultzsch on A Tour in Switzerland

Article, Fiction

For children, Shared space, Utopia

A Tale of Two Cities ko

2023

Sejeong Jang Ryul Song (editor)

Jaehee Shin on SUPTEXT Magazine

Book

Critique

A Short Life of Trouble. Forty Years in the New York Art World

2010

Marcia Tucker

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

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

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)

Feminism and Architecture

Spectra

A Queer Analysis of Eileen Gray’s E.1027

2005

Katarina Bonnevier

Hannah Thiessen on A Queer Analysis of E. 1027

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education

2020

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Feminism

A Manifesto

1969

Agnes Denes

Being a Stranger

A Lover’s Discourse

2021

Xiaolu Guo

Natália Peťková on A Lover’s Discourse