Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

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

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

Expanding Agency

Book

Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn

2020

Harriet Pattison

Expanding Agency

If You Want to Build a House

1946

Elizabeth Bauer Mock Kassler

Expanding Agency

Book

Dividing Paris

2022

Esther da Costa Meyer

Expanding Agency

Book

White Papers, Black Marks

2000

Lesley Lokko

Expanding Agency

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

Houses for a New World: Builders and Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945-1965

2015

Barbara Miller Lane

Expanding Agency

Book

Domesticity, Shared space

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

2015

Nancy Kwak

Expanding Agency

Book

Women as architects

Modern Woman – Architect czech

2022

Helena Huber-Dudová

Expanding Agency

Book

Art and Architecture in Postcolonial Africa

2006

Janet Berry Hess

Expanding Agency

Book

Women as architects

Greta Magnusson Grossman: Modern Design from Sweden to California

2021

Harriet Harriss Naomi House

Expanding Agency

Book

Women and The City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940

2002

Sarah Deutsch

Expanding Agency

Book

Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay

2019

Sheetal Chhabria

Expanding Agency

Book

Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape

2016

Francesca Russello Ammon

Expanding Agency

Online resource

Contact zones, Women as architects

Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration

2022

Aggregate

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?

Feminism and Architecture

Women as architects

Interiority Complex

2016

Harriet Harriss Naomi House

Feminism and Architecture

Article

Cultivated land, Feminism

Cultivating Power: The Language of Feminism in Women’s Garden Literature, 1870-1920

1994

Dianne Harris

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

Feminism and Architecture

Article

Feminism

Suffrage city: spatial knowledge and suffrage work in Bath, 1909-1914

2013

Cynthia Hammond

Olivia Janiszewski on Suffrage City

Feminism and Architecture

People Who Live in Glass Houses

1998

Alice T. Friedman

Elif Kurkcu on People who Live in Glass Houses

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture

Women as architects

Who Needs the Top? An Ungentle Manifesto

2019

Gabrielle Esperdy

Sarah El Ouazzani on Who Needs the Top