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

Book

The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic identities, class, femininity, and modernity

2004

Judy Giles

Annmarie Adams on The Parlour and the Suburb

Loké

Article

Capitalocene, Shared space

The Pandemic is a Portal

2020

Arundhati Roy

Erandi de Silva on Pandemic is a Portal Adhrita Roy on Pandemic Is a Portal and Azadi

Essay, Online article

The Outsider

2022

Hélène Binet

Architectural Theory & Gender Studies

Article, Catalogue

Care, Domesticity, Representation, Women as architects

The Ornamental Design of the Chosun Dynasty House 조선조시대주택의 장식적의장 ko

1977

Byung-ok Chun

Gayoun Jang on The Ornamental Design of the Chosun Dynasty House

Youlhwadang Book Museum

Poetry

Domesticity, Representation, Travel

The Orchid Door

1935

Joan Grigsby (translator) Lilian Miller (illustrator)

Spectra

The Non-Monogamy Letters

2020

Simon(e) von Saarloos Kim TallBear Whess Harman (illustrator)

Shen He on texts by Simon(e) von Saarloos

The Book Society List Reading Room Conversations in Preparation

Domesticity, Environmentalism, Feminism, Food, For children, Gender, Oral history, Shared space, Ways of thinking

The New Woman’s Survival Catalog

1973

Kirsten Grimstad (editor) Susan Renni (editor)

Emilie Appercé on the New Woman’s Survival Catalog

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Critique

The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design

2021

Fleur Watson

Disabling Environments

Article

Shared space, Spectra, Ways of thinking

The Neuroethics of Architecture

2022

Judy Illes Camille Y Huang

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Need for Small Blocks

1961

Jane Jacobs

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The Need for Aged Buildings

1962

Jane Jacobs

African State Architecture

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo

2020

Joy Rukanzakanza

African State Architecture

The Nation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

2020

Marie Gibert

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

Book

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

1850

Sojourner Truth

Architectural Criticism 1: Architecture X Nature A Book I Love ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

2015

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Jan Schweizer, Nicolas Schwegler, Yiran Zhang and Severin Ziegler on The Mushroom at the End of the World Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

in:dépendance at Furka Pass

Representation, Writing

The Multifaceted World of Japanese Narrative Art: An Introduction

2021

Trinh Khanh

The Book Society List

Book, Diary, Essay

Feminism

The Monumental Misrememberings

2013

Mimi Tempestt

Reading Room ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Gender

The Mediated Plant

2019

Teresa Castro

Linda Sjøqvist on The Mediated Plant

Reading Room Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020 Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Book

Feminism

The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

2018

Audre Lorde

Soo Jin Kim on The Master’s Tools will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Drawing Matter

The Mars Group’s Plan for London, 1933-1944

2021

Mirjam Kupferschmid

Drawing Matter

The Maquette

2017

Roz Barr

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Homes

2015

Judith Flanders

Book

Cultivated land, Ways of thinking

The Lure of the Local: Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society

1997

Lucy R. Lippard

Mariana Siracusa on The Lure of the Local

Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Fiction

The Lost Word

1907

Evelyn Underhill

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

2016

Olivia Laing

Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests

Book

The Living Museums – Franco Albini – BBPR – Lina Bo Bardi – Carlo Scarpa

2021

Orietta Lanzarini (editor)

A Book I Love Madame ETH

Book

Companion Text, Travel, Writing

The Living Mountain

1977

Nan Shepherd

Helen Thomas on The Living Mountain Alicia Ayla Yerebakan on The Living Mountain Emma Kleinbölting on The Living Mountain Mona Dillier on The Living Mountain Arianna Melchiorri on The Living Mountain Yosuke Nakamoto on The Living Mountain

Book

Ways of thinking

The Life of the Mind

1977

Hannah Arendt

Tatjana Blaser on The Life of the Mind

Loké Madame ETH

Book

Life work, Women as architects

The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect

1998

Minnette de Silva

Erandi de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect Shayari de Silva on The Life and Work of an Asian Woman Architect

Gender, Shared space

The Lesbian Flâneur

1995

Sally Munt

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Fiction

Feminism, Gender

The Left Hand of Darkness

1969

Ursula K. Le Guin

Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Seen From The South : ETH Zürich gta 2023

Book

The Lebanon Uprising of 2019 : Voices from the Revolution

2022

Mona Harb (editor)

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

The Last September

1929

Elizabeth Bowen

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

African State Architecture

The Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra, Ghana

2020

Irene Addo

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

The Kurtna Kolkhoz: Architectural Representations of Soviet and Post-Soviet Society

2019

Sonia Sobrino Ralston

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

The Kitchen of Praxagora – Turning the Private and Public Inside Out

2017

Elin Strand Ruin

Fiction

Environmentalism, Feminism, Food

The Island of Sea Women de ko

2019

Lisa See

Soo Jin Kim on Jeju Haenyeo Collective

A Book I Love

Novel

Contact zones, Cultivated land, Shared space, Ways of feeling

The Island of Missing Trees

2021

Elif Shafak

Article

Gender, Shared space

The Invisible Flâneuse: Women and the Literature of Modernity

1985

Janet Wolff

Mary Norman Woods on The Invisible Flâneuse

Temporal Cities, Provisional Citizens: Architectures of Internment (2015-2018)

Book

The Intimacies Of Four Continents

2015

Lisa Lowe

Disabling Environments

Article

Spectra

The influence of ceiling height: The effect of priming on the type of processing that people use

2007

Joan Meyers-Levy

Bauhaus Women

The identity of Design as Intellectual Property

2009

T’ai Smith

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

Article

The Ideal City: From Plato to Howard

1952

Susanne Lang

Book, Online resource

Learning, Representation

The Hybrid Practitioner. Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture

2022

Caroline Voet (editor) Eireen Schreurs (editor) Helen Thomas (editor)

Emily Priest and Dylan Radcliffe Brown on The Hybrid Practitioner

Urban Design Group Library ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book

Ways of thinking

The Human Condition

1958

Hannah Arendt

Kenneth Frampton on The Human Condition

Contact zones, Domesticity

The House on Mango Street

1984

Sandra Cisneros

Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano on The House on Mango Street

Decoratoresses

Book

The House in Good Taste

1914

Elsie de Wolfe

Decoratoresses

Book

The Honest House

1914

Ruby Ross Goodnow

Urban Design Group Library

Book

The Home of Man

1976

Barbara Ward