Women Writing Architecture

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Annotations are citations suggested by individuals accompanied by their thoughts, opinions and research.

Types

Glossary Terms

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

Amaza’s Azurest: Modern Architecture and the ‘New Negro’ Woman

2019

Jacqueline Taylor

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

Gender

The Mediated Plant

2019

Teresa Castro

Linda Sjøqvist on The Mediated Plant

Gender, Sexuality, and the Built Environment Seen, Heard, Built Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments The Foyer. A Unique Narrative atelier Fifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women’s Voting Rights in Switzerland 2021

Book

Feminism

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

2019

Caroline Criado Perez

Blanca Vives on Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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

Article

Shared space, Ways of feeling

Urban spectralisms: Relational design approaches for orchestrating and sharing space

2019

Nadine Schütz

Reading Room Conversations in Preparation

Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun

2019

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes Zosia Dzierżawska (illustrator)

Petra Gehrmann on A House Under the Sun

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Spectra

The Trouble with Women Artists: Reframing the History of Art

2019

Laure Adler Camille Viéville

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Cultivated land

Kiftsgate Court Gardens: Three Generations of Women Gardeners

2019

Vanessa Berridge

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Women [Re]Build: Stories, Polemics, Futures

2019

Franca Trubiano (editor) Ramona Adlakha (editor) Ramune Bartuskaite (editor)

Baubibliothek ETH Zürich

Book

Feminism

Suffragette City: Women, Politics, and the Built Environment

2019

Elizabeth Darling (editor) Nathaniel Robert Walker (editor)

Loudreaders

Book

Spectra

Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism

2019

Arielle Azoulay

Loudreaders on Potential History

DRAG Lab Book Club (2021)

Book

After the Death of Nature: Carolyn Merchant and the Future of Human-Nature Relations

2019

Elizabeth Allison (editor) Kenneth Worthy (editor) Whitney A. Bauman (editor)

Feminine Spaces. The Future is Female is Now II

Article

Building Sisterhood: How Feminists Sought to Make Architecture a Truly Collective Endeavor

2019

Mimi Zeiger

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

The Contemporary Ruin – Material Frictions in Times of Flux

2019

Charly Blödel

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Stepping Back to Make Progress

2019

Jeannette Kuo

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Utopia

(Fake) News From Nowhere: Utopia Against Stagnation

2019

Julia Dorn

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

A Contradictory Reading of Facts and Urban Spaces: The Rhetoric of Progress

2019

Chiara Davino Lorenza Villani

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Acceptance as progress

2019

Sara Davin Omar Felicia Narumi Liang

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Hymn to Progress: Pier Luigi Nervi’s Burgo Paper Mill

2019

Diletta Trinari Simone Marcolin

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Monsieur Hulot

2019

Marta Malinverni Alex Turner

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

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

2019

Sonia Sobrino Ralston

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Power Pursuit of Political Urbanism: Recounting Housing Prototypes & their Domestic Narratives

2019

Simran Singh

Cartha 2019: The Possible Progress

Architectural Experiments

2019

Séverine Marguin Henrike Rabe

Reading Room

Feminism

Ahmed for Architecture Students

2019

Brady Burroughs

Amy Perkins on Ahmed for Architecture Students

Book

Construction, Oral history

Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research

2019

Janina Gosseye Naomi Stead Deborah van der Plaat

Amy Perkins on Speaking of Buildings

Reading Room

Book

Contact zones, Spectra

A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

2019

Kathryn Yusoff

Copyright Bookshop recommends

Book

Marie-José Van Hee architecten: More Home, More Garden

2019

Marie-José Van Hee Katrien Vandermarliere (editor)

Eureka! Touring Library

Book

Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism

2019

Katherine Kuenzli

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Gender

Gender

2019

Dúnlaith Bird

Gendering History, Women Travel Writers and Architectural Experience

Travel

Contact Zone

2019

Claire Lindsay

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Capitalocene, Critique, Environmentalism

X-Ray Architecture

2019

Beatriz Colomina

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy Architecture, Modernism and its Discontents

2019

Hilde Heynen

Metropolis Bookshop’s Sisters in Architecture

Book

Environmentalism, Ways of thinking

Dirty Theory : Troubling Architecture

2019

Hélène Frichot

Elisabeth Gellein on Dirty Theory : Troubling Architecture

Madame ETH

Book

On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews greek

2019

Allyson Vieira

After 8 recommends Madame ETH

Book

Ways of thinking

Edith Heath: Philosophies

2019

Jennifer Volland Chris Marino

Finnish Women Writing

Women as architects

Gendered Perspectives on Architectural Practice

2019

Hanna Tyvelä

Book

Powerhouse: The Life and Work of Architect Judith Chafee

2019

Kathryn McGuire Christopher Domin

Logan Amont on The Life and Work of Architect Judith Chafee

Modern Architecture and Gender: The Case of pre-State Israel

Article

Domesticity, Spectra

From the Margins to the Center: Urban housing for single Jewish women in pre-state Israel

2019

Sigal Davidi

Parlour Reading Room 3: Collective access

Essay, Online article

The universal design ideal

2019

Anna Leahy

Parlour Reading Room 3: Collective access

The Same Door

2019

Sara Ahmed

Parlour Reading Room 4: Intersectional urban environments

Gender, Shared space

More lighting alone does not create safer cities. Look at what research with young women tells us

2019

Nicole Kalms

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

Parlour Reading Room 5: Intersectionality and the climate crisis

Capitalocene, Contact zones, Environmentalism

Not passive victims: Indigenous Australians respond to climate change

2019

Melissa Nursey-Bray

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Courtyard Living: Contemporary Houses Of The Asia-Pacific

2019

Charmaine Chan

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Travel

Where Architects Stay In Germany: Lodgings Für Design Enthusiasts

2019

Sibylle Kramer

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Night Fever 6: Hospitality Design

2019

Ana Martins Jeanne Tan

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Critique

Resonating Spaces: Leonor Antunes, Silvia Bächli, Toba Khedoori, Susan Philipsz, Rachel Whiteread. 5 Approaches

2019

Theodora Vischer

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Haus Am Horn: Bauhaus Architecture In Weimar

2019

Anke Blümm (editor) Martina Ullrich (editor)

CMYK current titles/2022

Book

Bubbletecture

2019

Sharon Francis

Book

Construction, Environmentalism

Manual of Recycling

2019

Annette Hillebrandt Petra Riegler-Floors Anja Rosen

Jiawei Wu on Manual of Recycling

Theater Neumarkt : Feminism and Gender

Feminism, Gender

Maso and Miso in the Land of Men’s Rights

2019

Élisabeth Lebovici Giovanna Zapperi