Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Book

The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680–1820

2013

Dana Arnold

Annmarie Adams on The Spaces of the Hospital

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

The Soft Infrastructure of Data Exhaust at RAND

2020

Kylie King Brett Zehner

Archeoastronomy and Collective Rituals

Poetry

Gentleness, Shared space

The Sky polish

1993

Wisława Szymborska

Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book chapter, Fiction

The Sisters

2017

Leonora Carrington

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

Fiction

The Shoby Story

1990

Ursula K. Le Guin

Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

The Shelbourne Hotel

1951

Elizabeth Bowen

Gerard Carty on The Shelbourne Hotel

Cartha 2018: Building Identity

The Shape of Doubt

2018

Marina Montresor Stephan Lando

After 8 recommends

Book

Gender

The Shabbiness of Beauty

2018

Moyra Davey Peter Hujar

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

1990

Carol Adams

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)

Zofia Hansen in Szumin

Shared space, Utopia

The Search for the “Open Form”: The Extension of the Zacheta Art Gallery by Oskar and Zofia Hansen (1958)

2018

Mariabruna Fabrizi

Book

The Scottish Home

1996

Annette Carruthers

Annmarie Adams on The Scottish Home

Parlour Reading Room 3: Collective access

The Same Door

2019

Sara Ahmed

Book

Feminism, Women as architects

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture

2021

Anna Sokolina (editor)

Elizabeth Darling on The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture

Researching Encounters

The Roofs of Traditional Farm Houses in Japan

1966

Vlasta Winkelhöferová

NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water

Contact zones, For children

The River

1946

Rumer Godden

Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte

Article

Utopia, Ways of thinking

The Rights of Man: What Are They?

1949

Hannah Arendt

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

Eureka! Touring Library

Book

The Renewal of Dwelling European Housing Construction 1945–1975

2022

Elli Mosayebi (editor) Michael Kraus (editor)

Disabling Environments

Book

Feminism, Spectra

The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability

1997

Susan Wendell

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

Book

Capitalocene, Domesticity, Feminism

The Real Wealth of Nations

2007

Riane Eisler

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Gender, Shared space, Spectra

The queer city: How to design more inclusive public space

2021

Pippa Catterall Ammar Azzouz

Book

The Queen Anne Revival Style in Canadian Architecture

1990

Leslie Maitland

Annmarie Adams on The Queen Anne Revival Style

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Article

The Promise of The Flat Field: a Reflection on Non-productive Expenditure

2020

Helen Thomas

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Feminism and Architecture Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Feminism

The Problem That Has No Name

1963

Betty Friedan

Reading Room

Essay

Critique, Feminism, Oral history

The Problem of Speaking For Others

1992

Linda Martín Alcoff

Emilie Appercé on The Problem of Speaking For Others

Book

Writing

The Printed and the Built: Architecture, Print Culture and Public Debate in the Nineteenth Century

2018

Mari Hvattum (editor) Anne Hultzsch (editor)

Emma Letizia Jones on The Printed and the Built

Feminism and Architecture

Book chapter, Online article

Spectra

The Preservation of LGBTQ Heritage

2016

Gail Dubrow

Space as Matrix

Book

The Power of Place

1997

Dolores Hayden

Emilie Appercé on The Power of Place

Gentleness

Book

The Power of Gentleness: Meditations on the Risk of Living

2018

Anne Dufourmantelle Vincent Sallé (translator) Katherine Payne (translator)

Drawing Matter

The Politics of the Image

2018

Maria Sheherazade Giudici

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

Book

Ways of feeling

The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening

2018

Salomé Voegelin

Book chapter, Essay

Representation, Ways of thinking, Writing

The Poetics of Urban Inscription. From metaphorical cognition to counter-representation.

2007

Laura Ruggeri Jane Rendell (editor)

Rebecca Billi on The Poetics of Urban Inscription

Amabel Williams-Ellis, writing out of rural Wales Orlando, Women’s Writing in the British Isles

Book

The Pleasures of Architecture

1924

Amabel Williams-Ellis Clough Williams-Ellis

Thinking & Writing Place

Article

Feminism

The Personal is Political

1970

Carol Hanisch

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

Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte

Book

Utopia, Ways of thinking

The Origins of Totalitarianism

1951

Hannah Arendt

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

Building in Stone Today

Article

Construction, Critique

The New Brutalism

1957

Alison Smithson Peter Smithson

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