Women Writing Architecture

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Types

Glossary Terms

Vandalising the Indian Atelier: a search for stories of women practitioners

Book

The Fort of Nagaur

1993

Minakshi Jain Kulbhushan Jain

Book

The Force of Non-Violence

2020

Judith Butler

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Women as architects

The First American Women Architects

2008

Sarah Allaback

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

Book

Feminism

The Feminine Mystique

1963

Betty Friedan

spacegirls girltopia

Utopia

The Female Man

1975

Joanna Russ

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Travel

The Female Gaze: Encounters in the Zenana

1998

Indira Ghose

Conversations in Preparation

Book

Companion Text, Feminism

The Female Eunuch

1970

Germaine Greer

Marie-José Van Hee on The Female Eunuch

After 8 recommends

Essay

Ways of thinking

The Falling

2022

Marie Lund

Drawing Matter

Online article, Review

The facade is the window to the soul of architecture: Venice Architecture Biennale, 2018

2018

Helen Thomas

The Architecture of Accra

Oral history, Shared space

The Evolution of Adedainkpo, Old Accra

2021

Akotowaa Ofori Lawrencia Amartey

Feminism and Architecture

The Eichler Home: Intention and Experience in Postwar Suburbia

1995

Annmarie Adams

Disabling Environments

Article

Care

The effect of exposure to the natural environment on stress reduction: A metabolic analysis

2020

Wenfei Yao

Book

The Edwardian House: The Middle-class Home in Britain 1880-1914

1993

Helen C Long

Annmarie Adams on The Edwardian House

Book

Companion Text, Travel

The Dust Roads of Monferrato

1989

Rosetta Loy

Marie-José Van Hee on The Dust Roads of Monferrato

Space as Matrix

Book

Ways of feeling

The Dream and the Word

2012

Susan Hiller

Researching Encounters

Book

The Domestic Space Reader

2012

Chiara Briganti (editor) Kathy Mezei (editor)

Gender, Architecture and the Construction of Modernity (2020)

Article

Gender

The Diversity of Women’s Engagement with Modern Architecture and Design: Three Case Studies

2019

Kathleen James-Chakraborty

spacegirls girltopia Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender Loudreaders

Fiction

Feminism

The Dispossessed

1974

Ursula K. Le Guin

Loudreaders on The Dispossessed Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Parlour Reading Room 3: Collective access

The Disordinary Architecture Project: A Handy guide for doing disability differently in architecture and urban design

2018

Jos Boys

On motherhood

Book

Companion Text, Feminism, Motherhood

The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents’ Activism in Chicago Public Housing

2004

Roberta M. Feldman Susan Stall

Rebecca Siefert on The Dignity of Resistance

Ways of thinking, Writing

The Dictionary of Lost Words

2020

Pip Williams

Naomi Caruso on The Dictionary of Lost Words

in:dépendance at Furka Pass

Book, Diary

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

1010

Murasaki Shikibu Richard Bowring (translator)

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Book

Feminism

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

1970

Shulamith Firestone

Drawing Matter

The Destruction of the City of Homs

2017

Deanna Petherbridge

Decoratoresses

Book

The Decorative Arts in France, 1900 – 1942

1990

Suzanne Tise Yvonne Brunhammer

Decoratoresses

Book

The Decoration of Houses

1898

Edith Wharton Ogden Codman

Reading Room DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution

1980

Carolyn Merchant

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

Book

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

1960

Jane Jacobs

Martina Bischof on Death and Life of Great American Cities

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Article

Gender, Shared space

The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes

2019

Caroline Criado Perez

Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Lecture, Poetry

Ways of thinking

The Current of the River of Life Moves Us

1979

Agnes Martin

Contemporary Women Architects: Theories, Practices, Positions (2020)

Book

Feminism

The Creation of Patriarchy

1986

Gerda Lerner

The Cost of Living

2018

Deborah Levy

Natália Peťková on Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living & Real Estate

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

The Contemporary Ruin – Material Frictions in Times of Flux

2019

Charly Blödel

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

The Contemporary House

2018

Ellie Stathaki Jonathan Bell

Parlour Reading Room 1: Introducing intersectional feminism WAI Architecture Think Tank

Book

Feminism

The Combahee River Collective Statement

1977

The Combahee River Collective

WAI Think Tank on The Combahee River Collective Statement

Book

The Clan of the Cave Bear

1890

Jean M. Auel

Poonam Verma Mascarenahs on The Clan of the Cave Bear

ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Semester Readings (2011-2021)

The City of the Floating World: Paris

1991

Elizabeth Wilson

Urban Design Group Library

Book

The City as Resource. Text and Projects 2005- 2014

2014

Myriam Perret (editor) Tim Rieniets (editor) Nicolas Kretschmann (editor) Chair of Prof. Kees Christiaanse (editor)

Eureka! Touring Library

Book

The Citadel: A Trilogy

2022

Mame-Diarra Niang

Researching Encounters

Book

The Choreography of Everyday Life

2022

Annie-B Parson

Finnish Women Writing

Women as architects

The Changing Careers of Women Architects

2017

Pirkko-Liisa Schulman

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Feminism, Shared space

The Case for Safe Spaces

2016

Anne-Laure White

On success Can Writing Be Activism? Cyberfeminism Index ETH Zurich Studio Caruso Spring Semester Readings 2022 Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021 Architecture Foundation’s Bedtime Stories, 2020

Essay

Feminism, Friendship

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

1988

Ursula K. Le Guin

Mindy Seu on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Philip Einhaus on The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction Helen Thomas, Alicia Yerebakan, Sol Pérez Martínez, Monica Ciobotar, Burak Kaya, Clara Gostynski and Jaehee Shin on Can Writing Be Activism?

Disabling Environments

Book

Care

The Cancer Journals

2006

Audre Lorde

bodymind

Article

Spectra

The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain

2015

Margaret Price

bodymind

Spectra

The Bodymind Problem

2015

Allison Harper Hitt

Caryatide: Always work in progress

Care, Environmentalism, Spectra

The Body We Care for: Figures of Anthropo-zoo-genesis

2004

Vinciane Despret

Fantastic refuge

Feminism, For children, Oral history, Vernacular

The Bloody Chamber

1979

Angela Carter

Drawing Matter

The Black Drawings of Marie-José van Hee

2016

Helen Thomas

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

Fiction, Poetry

The Bell Jar

1966

Sylvia Plath