Women Writing Architecture

Collections are groups of citations drawn from syllabi, libraries, conversations, and events.

Annotations are citations suggested by individuals accompanied by their thoughts, opinions and research.

Types

Glossary Terms

Contact zones, Domesticity

The House on Mango Street

1984

Sandra Cisneros

Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano on The House on Mango Street

On success

Essay

Shared space, Ways of feeling

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power

1984

Audre Lorde

Finnish Women Writing Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Profiles: pioneering women architects from Finland

1983

Ulla Markelin

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Book

Travel

AS in DS: An Eye on the Road

1983

Alison Smithson

An Internet of Things

1983

Keller Easterling

Shayari de Silva on Internet of Things and Medium Design

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Contact zones, Feminism, Gender, Oral history

From Survival to Defiance : Indian Hawkers in Johannesburg

1983

Coco Cachalia

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales

Book

All Stracheys are Cousins

1983

Amabel Williams-Ellis

On motherhood Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9

Book

Domesticity, Feminism, Motherhood

More Work for Mother

1983

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

On motherhood

Book

Feminism, Motherhood

In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose

1983

Alice Walker

Archeoastronomy and Collective Rituals Oppressed Fantasies, Liberatory Constructions

Book

Environmentalism, Life work

Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer

1983

Diane Wolkstein Samuel Noah Kramer

Xiangyue Lu on Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book, Fiction, Manuscript, Novel, Poetry

Contact zones, Feminism, Vernacular

Dictee 딕테 fr ko

1982

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Jaehee Shin on Dictee

Decoratoresses

Book

Sixty Years of Interior Design: The World of McMillen

1982

Erica Brown

Finnish Women Writing

Women as architects

Arkkitehteja. Architectan 40-vuotisnäyttely/Architects. Architecta’s 40-year anniversary exhibition finnish

1982

Marja Helenius (editor)

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

Article

Architectural Themes

1982

Frances Yates

Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9 Madame ETH ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021) Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book

Companion Text, Domesticity, Feminism

The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities

1981

Dolores Hayden

Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article

Feminism, Shared space

Women’s Environmental Rights: A Manifesto

1981

Leslie Kanes Weisman

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Domesticity, Feminism

Feminist Politics and Domestic Life

1981

Dolores Hayden

Intersectional Discrimination On motherhood Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Loké WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Feminism, Motherhood

Women, Race & Class

1981

Angela Davis

WAI Think Tank on Women, Race & Class Erandi de Silva on Women, Race and Class

Decoratoresses

Book

Living Well, the NYTimes Book of Home Design and Decoration

1981

Carrie Donovan

indiana collective’s reading list 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

Gentleness, Life work

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

Fantastic refuge

Feminism, For children, Oral history, Vernacular

The Bloody Chamber

1979

Angela Carter

spacegirls girltopia

Utopia

The Wanderground

1979

Sally Miller Gearhart

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

Book

African Traditional Architecture: An Historical and Geographical Perspective

1978

Susan Denyer

Barefoot in Sri Lanka

Book

Vihares & Verandas Ceylon

1978

Barbara Sansoni

Can Writing Be Activism?

Feminism, Writing

Toward a Feminist Poetics

1978

Elaine Showalter

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)