Women Writing Architecture

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

Types

Glossary Terms

Book

African Traditional Architecture: An Historical and Geographical Perspective

1978

Susan Denyer

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

On motherhood

Book

Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

2022

Sophie Lewis

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

Conversations in Preparation

Companion Text, For children

A Little Princess

1905

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Liza Fior on A Little Princess

Book

A Life of Creation

2003

Charlotte Perriand

Asli Çiçek on A Life of Creation

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd

2013

Catherine Burke

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Book

Travel

A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, With a Return Down the Rhine: To Which Are Added, Observations During a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland

1795

Ann Radcliffe

Bauhaus Women

Learning

A Hundred Years of Photography 1839-1939

1939

Lucia Moholy Nagy

Mara Trübenbach on A Hundred Years of Photography

Architectural Theory & Gender Studies Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9

Book

Domesticity, Gender

A History of Private Life

1994

Michelle Perrault (editor)

Cyberfeminism Index

Book

A Hacker Manifesto

2004

McKenzie Wark

Care, Critique, Friendship, Learning, Shared space, Spectra, Ways of thinking

A Glued Manifesto ko

2023

Ryul Song Christian Schweitzer

Jaehee Shin on SUPTEXT Magazine

Feminism and Architecture

Article

Feminism

A Feminist Arcadian Landscape – Un Paysage Arcadien Féministe. Les Dernières Œuvres de Joyce Wieland: The Later Work of Joyce Wieland fr

2020

Cynthia Hammond

Anastasia Jaffray on A Feminist Arcadian Landscape

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Feminism, Gender

A Feminist Approach to Architecture

1989

Karen Franck

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home

2013

Laura Gottesdiener

Drawing Matter

A Dose of Dosio

2019

Laura Harty

Disabling Environments

Report

Care, Ways of thinking

A definition and classification of status epilepticus: report of the ILAE Task Force on Classification of Status Epilepticus

2015

Hannah Cock Ingrid Scheffer Andrea Rossetti Eugen Trinka

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

Essay

Gender

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s

1987

Donna Haraway

Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

A Contradictory Reading of Facts and Urban Spaces: The Rhetoric of Progress

2019

Chiara Davino Lorenza Villani

Reading Room Conversations in Preparation Fantastic refuge

A City Inside

2016

Tillie Walden

Petra Gehrmann on A City Inside

Book

A city for children: women, architecture, and the charitable landscapes of Oakland, 1850–1950

2014

Marta Gutman

Annmarie Adams on A City for Children

Reading Room

Book

Contact zones, Spectra

A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

2019

Kathryn Yusoff

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

50 Favourite Houses By Frank Lloyd Wright

2000

Diane Maddox

Copyright Bookshop recommends

Book

Ways of thinking

25 Concepts in Modern Architecture: A Guide for Visual Thinkers

2021

Stephanie Travis Catherine Anderson

Decoratoresses

Book

20th Century Decorating, Architecture and Gardens

1980

Mary Jane Pool

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

101 Hotel Lobbies, Bars & Restaurants

2013

Corinna Kretschmar-Joehnk Peter Joehnk

Decoratoresses

Book

100 Most Beautiful Rooms in America

1958

Helen Comstock

Disabling Environments

Article

Spectra

(Ir)resistible Stairs: Public Health, Desiring Practices, and Material-Symbolic Ableism

2022

Aimi Hamraie