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

Drawing Matter

Postcard from Nowhere (Counterswimming)

2020

Teresa Stoppani

Drawing Matter

Yasmeen Lari: Drawn Closer

2020

Helen Thomas

Drawing Matter

Biba Dow on Giorgio Morandi: Group and Threshold

2020

Biba Dow

Drawing Matter

Fiction, Online article

Behind the Lines 14

2020

Philippa Lewis

Drawing Matter

Origins in Translation

2020

Mari Lending

Drawing Matter

ETH Zurich: Casting the Cornice in Ticino

2020

Emma Letizia Jones

Drawing Matter

Marie-José van Hee: Drawn Closer

2020

Marie-José Van Hee

African State Architecture

Eastgate Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe

2020

Tondi Koschke

African State Architecture

The Nation Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

2020

Marie Gibert

African State Architecture

The Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra, Ghana

2020

Irene Addo

African State Architecture

Oliver Tambo Heritage House, Zambia

2020

Kamfwa Sandu

African State Architecture

Old Bank building, Guinea Bissau

2020

Ana Djú Isa Lopes da Costa

African State Architecture

The Arul Mihu Navasakthi Vinayagar temple, Seychelles

2020

Hangwei Li

African State Architecture

The National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo

2020

Joy Rukanzakanza

African State Architecture

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia building in Addis Ababa

2020

Joanne Tomkinson

African State Architecture

Jerfix Studios in Accra

2020

Kuukuwa Manful

African State Architecture

Workers’ Museum in Johannesburg

2020

Julia Gallagher

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

Introduction: Modernism and Domestic Life in the Machine Age

2020

Victoria Rosner

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

Modernism’s Missing Children: Mass Production and Human Reproduction

2020

Victoria Rosner

NEW ORDER (2023) Displacement (2024) Water

Book

Piranesi

2020

Susanna Clarke

Friederike von Rauch on Piranesi

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Article

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

2020

Helen Thomas

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

Book

Feminism

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

2020

Mikki Kendall

Urban Design Group Library Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture Baubibliothek ETH Zürich Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

Feminism, Shared space, Spectra

Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World

2020

Leslie Kern

Article

Carolotopia

2020

Carla Frick-Cloupet

Natália Peťková on Carolotopia

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Essay, Online article

Interview with Annebella Pollen on the Typology of the Photobooth

2020

Annebella Pollen Francisco Moura Veiga

Francisco Moura Veiga on Interview with Annebella Pollen on the Typology of the Photobooth

Reading Room Conversations in Preparation

Apsara Engine

2020

Bishakh Som

Petra Gehrmann on Apsara Engine

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book, Catalogue

Faces and Spaces: 40 Years Aedes Architecture Forum

2020

Kristin Feireiss Hans-Jurgen Commerell

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Life work, Women as architects

Into the Light: The Art and Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli

2020

Rebecca Siefert

Medium Design

2020

Keller Easterling

Shayari de Silva on Internet of Things and Medium Design

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Critique

Why Arguments Against Abolition Inevitably Fail

2020

Angela Davis

WAI Think Tank on Why Arguments Against Abolition Inevitably Fail

Article

Gender

Learning From the Virus

2020

Paul B. Preciado Molly Stevens (translator)

Loudreaders on Learning From the Virus

Loudreaders

Book

Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization

2020

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

Loudreaders on Ch’ixinakax utxiwa

Loudreaders

Book

Fronts: Military Urbanism & the Developing World

2020

Ersela Kripa Stephen Mueller

Loudreaders on Fronts

Loudreaders

Feminism

Anti-Racist Manifesto

2020

Colectiva Feminista en Construcción

Loudreaders on Anti-Racist Manifesto

Loudreaders

Gender, Spectra

Learning to Become an Extremophile: Trans Symbiosis and Survival in Berlin

2020

Ged Ribas Goody

Loudreaders on Learning to Become an Extremophile

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Violence by Design: Resisting Carceral Logic for Architects and Designers

2020

The FUNAMBULIST (editor) Spectra Studio (editor) After Hours (editor)

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

Feminism

Data Feminism

2020

Catherine D’Ignazio Lauren Klein

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

A Manual of Anti-Racist Architecture Education

2020

WAI Architecture Think Tank

Zofia Hansen in Szumin Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Women as architects

Breaking Ground book on buildings by women ‘is both needed and problematic’

2020

Mimi Zeiger

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Tissue Architecture and Organogensis

2020

Meritxell Huch Alex Thake

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Classifying the Déclassé: A Non-Methodological Methodology

2020

Annebella Pollen

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Mainstreet is Almost Alright: Repeat to Delete

2020

Lena Appel

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Baseline

2020

Maša Tomšič

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

I am the Theater: An account of the paradoxical layers of invisible forces of Western oppression

2020

Viola Ago

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

RT3DDT: poetics of synchronization

2020

Alina Nazmeeva

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

The Soft Infrastructure of Data Exhaust at RAND

2020

Kylie King Brett Zehner

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Know your DestinE – or how to clone your Planet

2020

State of the Hearts

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

László Moholy-Nagy and Alvar Aalto’s Biocentric Vision of Design and their Admiration for Invisible Structures: “Elastic” Standardization as Biosemiotics

2020

Marianna Charitonidou

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Broken love machine, or how to live a great love

2020

Mariana Meneguetti

Cartha 2020: Invisible Structures

Rethinking Intimacy and the City

2020

Alexandra Pereira-Edwards