Women Writing Architecture

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Glossary Terms

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Gender

Why Was Patty Hopkins Photoshopped Out of This Image?

2014

Vanessa Quirk

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Gender

Working in the Shadows

2012

Ann Lok Lui

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Travel

Walking after Midnight. Women, Sex and Public Space

2001

Rebecca Solnit

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Book

Feminism

The Creation of Patriarchy

1986

Gerda Lerner

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Critical Regionalism

1991

Liane Lefaivre Alexander Tzonis Spyros Amourgis (editor)

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

Architekturtheorie (2020)

The Uses of Sidewalks: Safety

1961

Jane Jacobs

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Article

Domesticity, Spectra

Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement

1999

Sara Ahmed

Architekturtheorie (2020)

Book

Travel

AS in DS: An Eye on the Road

1983

Alison Smithson

Fantastic refuge

Article

Feminism

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in Seventeenth-Century New Spain and Finding a Room of One’s Own

2005

Deborah Weagel

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

Construction, Vernacular

Traditional Architecture of Thatta

1989

Yasmeen Lari

Helen Thomas on Traditional Architecture of Thatta

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi

2017

Mary Norman Woods

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Women architects in Australia 1900-1950

2001

Julie Willis Bronwyn Hanna

CMYK current titles/2022 Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

New Chinese Architecture: Twenty Women Building the Future

2019

Xin Zhang Austin Williams

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Drawing on Diversity: Women, Architecture and Practice

1997

Lynne Walker

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Parlour Reading Room 2: The profession through an intersectional lens Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Where Are the Women Architects?

2016

Despina Stratigakos

Estelle Gagliardi on Where Are the Women Architects?

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender, Women as architects

Gender Studies in Architecture: Space, Power and Difference

2013

Dörte Kuhlmann

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender, Shared space

Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism

2017

Nicole Kalms

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Reading Room The Power of Mushrooms – Growing Library Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women

2019

Jane Hall

Sonja Flury on Breaking Ground

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

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Report

Women as architects

Women in the architectural profession 1978

1978

Policy Studies Institute (publisher)

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

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

The Lady Architects: Lois Lilley Howe, Eleanor Manning and Mary Almy, 1893-1937

1990

Doris Cole Karen Cord Taylor

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession

2000

Annmarie Adams Peta Tancred

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Women in Architecture: Critical Concepts in Architecture

2019

Sumita Singha (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

MoMoWo: 100 Works in 100 Years: European Women in Architecture and Design, 1918-2018

2016

Ana María Fernández García (editor)

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Parity in History? Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Feminism

Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies

2018

Hélène Frichot (editor) Catharina Gabrielsson (editor) Helen Runting (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870-1950

2017

Elizabeth Darling (editor) Lesley Whitworth (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

MoMoWo: Women: Architecture & Design Itineraries across Europe

2016

Sara Levi Sacerdotti (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

On stage!: Women in Landscape Architecture and Planning de

2016

Barbara Zibell (editor) Doris Damyanovic (editor) Eva Álvarez (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe

2017

Mary Pepchinski (editor) Mariann Simon (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Architecture: A Woman’s Profession de

2011

Tanja Kullack (editor)

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Feminism, Women as architects

Feminist practices : interdisciplinary approaches to women in Architecture

2011

Lori Brown (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Report

Women as architects

Report of the Second International Congress of the Women Architects

1969

International Union of Women Architects (publisher)

Architectural Theory & Gender Studies Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Domesticity, Gender

Negotiating domesticity: spatial productions of gender in modern architecture

1995

Hilde Heynen (editor) Gülsüm Baydar (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Report

Women as architects

Changing attitudes: new working practices

1995

Women Architects Committee RIBA (publisher)

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)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Women’s Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960

2003

Brenda Martin (editor) Penny Sparke (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Women in Danish architecture

1991

Helle Bay (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Report

Women as architects

The Work of women architects

1991

Women Architects Committee RIBA (publisher)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture

2001

Maggie Toy (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Report

Women as architects

Women architects

2016

Women Architects Committee RIBA (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

Gender and architecture

2000

Louise Durning (editor) Richard Wrigley (editor)

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

Gender, Space, Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction

2003

Jane Rendell (editor) Barbara Penner (editor) Iain Borden (editor)

Jasmine Yu on Gender Space Architecture

Finnish Women Writing Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Profiles: pioneering women architects from Finland

1983

Ulla Markelin

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Report

Women as architects

Women architects: their work

1992

Lynne Walker (editor)

Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Women as architects

Women in architecture survey 1992: a presentation of the findings resulting from a postal questionnaire to registered women architects 1992

1992

Sally Kirk Walker

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020) Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Feminism

Architecture and Feminism

1996

Debra Coleman (editor) Elizabeth Danze (editor) Carol Henderson (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Library of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Book

Gender

The Sex of Architecture

1996

Diana Agrest (editor) Patricia Conway (editor) Leslie Kanes Weisman (editor)