Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Book

Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement, 1968–present

2019

Margaretta Jolly

Amy Perkins on Speaking of Buildings

Lecture

Art Without Work and Work Without Art

2019

Georgia Sagri

Yuxin Wu on Art Without Work and Work Without Art

Memories of the Women of Graubünden

Book

Feminism

The Years

1937

Virginia Woolf

Memories of the Women of Graubünden

Book

Travel

Purdah: Status Of Indian Women

1932

Frieda Hauswirth

Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9

Book

Critique, Ways of feeling

Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life

1995

Martha Nussbaum

Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9

Book

Care, Environmentalism, Shared space

Waste and Urban Regeneration : An Urban Ecology of Seoul’s Nanjido Post-landfill Park

2023

Jeong Hye Kim

Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9

Book

Purity and Danger

1966

Mary Douglas

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

Book

Domesticity, Gender

A History of Private Life

1994

Michelle Perrault (editor)

On motherhood Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9

Book

Domesticity, Feminism, Motherhood

More Work for Mother

1983

Ruth Schwartz Cowan

Ways of feeling

Bad Behaviour

1988

Mary Gaitskill

Efua Boakye on Bad Behaviour

On motherhood

Book

Life work, Motherhood

Baggage: My Childhood

2004

Janet Street-Porter

Ellis Woodman on Baggage

Essay, Online article

The Outsider

2022

Hélène Binet

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap

1970

Margaret Mead

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Gender

Postmodernism and the Engendering of Marcel Duchamp

1994

Amelia Jones

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Cultivated land

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

1959

Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Baku. Oil and Urbanism

2017

Eve Blau Ivan Rupnik

Book

Critique

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

2010

Marcia Tucker

Spazio Special Collection

Book

Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture

1957

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy

Feminism

Change, My Problem is a Problem of a Women

1979

Ewa Partum

Feminism

A Manifesto

1969

Agnes Denes

Feminism

No Manifesto

1965

Yvonne Rainer

Film

Women as architects

Arab Women in Architecture arabic

2014

Jude Kawwa Abdallah Saada

Mayyasah Akour on Women Architects and Modernism in India

Essay, Online article

Ways of thinking

Pippi treibt Unsinn de

2023

Christine Lötscher

Jaehee Shin on Pippi Longstocking

Being a Stranger

To be a Man

2020

Nicole Krauss

Being a Stranger

Assembly

2021

Natasha Brown

On motherhood Being a Stranger

Contact zones, Motherhood

No one is talking about this

2021

Patricia Lockwood

Being a Stranger

Exposure

2018

Olivia Sudjic

Being a Stranger

Asylum Road

2021

Olivia Sudjic

Natália Peťková on Asylum Road

Being a Stranger

Transit

2016

Rachel Cusk

Being a Stranger

Book

Whereabouts

2021

Jhumpa Lahiri

Natália Peťková on Whereabouts

Being a Stranger

A Lover’s Discourse

2021

Xiaolu Guo

Natália Peťková on A Lover’s Discourse

Being a Stranger

Radical. A Life of My Own

2023

Xiaolu Guo

Feminism and Architecture

Female Regulation of the Healthy Home

1996

Annmarie Adams

Ziyi-Jorrina Cheng on Female Regulation

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2023

Report

The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics

2018

Bénédicte Savoy Felwine Sarr

Helena Bonet Muñoz on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Xingyu Bai on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Charlotte Gwendolyn Arn on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Lukas Buettner on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Jingling Ding on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Kristina Lehtinen on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Chiara Linsalata on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Zhishuang Liu on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Isaac Elia Martinez on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Nora Zoe Schären on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage Qingyuan Wu on The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2023

Book

Critique

Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest

2021

Laura Raicovich

Che Facchin on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Fabian Güzelgün on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Jonas Zimmermann on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Julian Merlo on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Ladina Naegeli on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Lukas Nussbaumer on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Nicolai Dinkel on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Romina Züst on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest Xiaoyu Yang on Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest

Spazio Special Collection A Book I Love

Book

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

1972

Margaret Atwood

A Book I Love

Poetry

Companion Text, Ways of feeling

Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman

1974

Judy Grahn

Book

Belonging: A Culture of Place

2008

bell hooks

Book

Environmentalism, Vernacular, Women as architects

In Forest, Field and Factory

2019

Gauri Bharat

Adhrita Roy on In Forest, Field and Factory

Feminism and Architecture

Women as architects

On the Fringe of the Profession: Women in American Architecture

1977

Gwendolyn Wright

Claudia Ng on On The Fringe

Feminism and Architecture

Article

Women as architects

Architecture’s Labor Problem

2023

Kate Wagner

Taylor Wasserman on The Labor Problem

Feminism and Architecture

Feminism

On the Inside: Preserving Women’s History in American Libraries

2003

Abigail Van Slyck

Abigail MacKenzie on Preserving Women’s History in American Libraries Erica Vinson on Preserving Women’s History in American Libraries

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture

Article

Conflicting Landscape Values: The Santa Clara Pueblo and Day School

1990

Rina Swentzell

Justine Valois on Conflicting Landscape Values Alexa Sharp on Conflicting Landscape Values

Feminism and Architecture

Fear in a Handful of Dust

2020

Victoria Rosner

Danna Nishmas on Fear in a Handful of Dust

Feminism and Architecture

Women as architects

Parisian Foundations: Julia Morgan at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 1896-1902

2022

Karen McNeill

Feminism and Architecture

Article

Women as architects

Julia Morgan: Gender, Architecture, and Professional Style

2007

Karen McNeill

Feminism and Architecture

Interiors: nineteenth-century essays on the ‘masculine’ and the ‘feminine’ room

1996

Juliet Kinchin

Maria Lederer on Interiors: nineteenth-century essays

Expanding Agency

Book

Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington

2011

Ellen Weiss

Expanding Agency

Book

Construction, Contact zones

Grafted Arts: Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1910

2022

Holly Shaffer

Expanding Agency

Book

Housing, Architecture, and the Edge Condition: Dublin is Building, 1935-1975

2019

Ellen Rowley