Women Writing Architecture

Types

Glossary Terms

Title

Year

Author

Flora Bonnemé of Technè Bookshop suggests

Book

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

2021

Orietta Lanzarini (editor)

The Weather 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

Book chapter

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

Shared space

The Lebanon Uprising of 2019 : Voices from the Revolution

2022

Mona Harb (editor)

Architecture in the World of Elizabeth Bowen

Book

Contact zones

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

Online article

The Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra, Ghana

2020

Irene Addo

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Online article

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

2019

Sonia Sobrino Ralston

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment

Book chapter

Shared space

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

Capitalocene

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

Book chapter

Construction

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

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

Frauen Schreiben Menschenrechte 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

Book, Fiction

Contact zones, Domesticity

The House on Mango Street

1984

Sandra Cisneros

Cristina Dreifuss-Serrano on The House on Mango Street

Decoratoresses

Book

Domesticity

The House in Good Taste

1914

Elsie de Wolfe

Decoratoresses

Book

Domesticity

The Honest House

1914

Ruby Ross Goodnow

Urban Design Group Library

Book

Shared space

The Home of Man

1976

Barbara Ward

On motherhood ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book chapter

Domesticity, Motherhood

The Home as a Workshop, The Housewife

1910

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design

2018

Alexandra Lange

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Book, Fiction

The Heart Goes Last

2015

Margaret Atwood

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Fantastic refuge

Book

Gender, Shared space

The Hearing Trumpet

1976

Leonora Carrington Pablo Weisz Carrington (illustrator)

Helen Thomas on The Hearing Trumpet

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

Book

Capitalocene, Gender

The Haraway Reader

2003

Donna Haraway

Bauhaus Women

Book chapter

Construction

The Haptics of Optics: Weaving and Photography

2014

T’ai Smith

Space as Matrix

Magazine

Writing

The Happy Hypocrite

2008

Maria Fusco (editor)

On motherhood Lillemors Frauenliteratur

Book, Fiction

Feminism, Motherhood

The Handmaid’s Tale

1985

Margaret Atwood

Stéphanie Dadour on The Handmaid’s Tale

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

Book, Fiction

The Group

1963

Mary McCarthy

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

Book chapter

Representation

The grid, the /cloud/, and the detail

1994

Rosalind Epstein Krauss

Covid Diary, January 2022

Book, Fiction

The Green Road

2015

Anne Enright

Galpi Project 갈피 프로젝트 #6-#9 Madame ETH ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Autumn Semester Readings 2021 Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021) Conversations in Preparation ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021) Radical Domesticity: Modernism, Gender, and Building the Future 2021

Book

Companion Text, Domesticity, Feminism

The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities

1981

Dolores Hayden

Adam Caruso on The Grand Domestic Revolution Stéphanie Dadour on Grand Domestic Revolution Anne-Marie Armstrong on Grand Domestic Revolution

Book

Shared space